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New Quimby’s Bookstore T-shirt Fundraiser, Courtesy of Barrel Maker Printing

Published on May 1, 2020 0 Comments

We’re proud to announce a team up with Barrel Maker Printing for a new Quimby’s t-shirt! $10 from each shirt goes toward small businesses. We’re proud to join the ranks of other amazing Chicago institutions like Thalia Hall, Sleeping Village, Chicago Diner and more. You have until 5/31 to order, so don’t miss your chance to order Chris Ware’s Quimby the Mouse, reading a zine (of course), perched above our name, on a wondrous coral-colored t-shirt. 100% airlume combed and ringspun cotton sure sounds comfy to us!

More info: https://bit.ly/2Yl6jnJ

Postponing Event Until a Undeclared later date: Zine Club Chicago: Food Edition

Published on March 10, 2020 0 Comments
Apr ’20
21
7:00 pm

Zine Club Chicago is excited to announce that the April meeting will feature guest artist Sarah Becan, a local food fiend dynamo whose work has been a longtime staple at Quimby’s.

Zine newbies and longtime enthusiasts alike are always welcome at Zine Club Chicago, the city’s only book club-style event for people who read zines. This free monthly series is produced by Chicago Zine Fest/Midwest Perzine Fest organizer Cynthia E. Hanifin and hosted by Quimby’s Bookstore.

Sarah Becan is a comics artist, illustrator and designer, and the creator of “I Think You’re Sauceome”, a food-centric autobiographical webcomic. Her work has appeared in various publications, including Saveur Magazine, Eater.com, The Chicago Reader, and TruthOut.com.

She was awarded a Xeric Award and a Stumptown Trophy for Outstanding Debut for her first graphic novel, The Complete Ouija Interviews, and her work has twice been nominated for the Ignatz Award. Becan’s second graphic novel, Shuteye, was funded with a successful Kickstarter campaign and released in early 2012. In 2014, she wrote and illustrated Luna de Cuernos, a long form graphic story for Fifth House Ensemble’s spring 2014 concert series.

Becan illustrated the cookbook The Adventures of Fat Rice (2016), and Let’s Make Ramen!, a comic book cookbook, published July 2019 by Ten Speed Press.

Zine Club Chicago: Food Edition, at Quimby’s with Sarah Becan

Tues, April 21st, 7pm

Quimby’s, 1854 W. North Avenue in Wicker Park

Free!

Postponing March 24th Event Until a Undeclared later date: Zine Club Chicago: Screens Edition

Published on March 3, 2020 0 Comments
Mar ’20
24
7:00 pm

*Until COVID-19 status has been changed, we are post-poning the March Zine Club meeting until an undeclared later date. Stay tuned to quimbys.com for info about the rescheduling.*

 

 

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Zine Club Chicago: Screens Edition, at Quimby’s!

7 p.m. Tuesday, March 24th

Quimby’s, 1854 W. North Avenue in Wicker Park

Free!

Movies, television shows, YouTube videos … we all like to watch. This month at Zine Club Chicago: Screens Edition, we’ll be discussing self-published works about the moving images that keep us riveted to big and small screens alike. Bring your faves and join us for a fun conversation and snacks!

Due to member requests, we’re also bringing back the Mystery Zine Swap this month! If you’d like to participate, bring a zine (concealed in some way) to trade with someone else on the spot.

Zine newbies and longtime enthusiasts alike are always welcome at Zine Club Chicago, the city’s only book club-style event for people who read zines. This free monthly series is produced by Chicago Zine Fest/Midwest Perzine Fest organizer Cynthia E. Hanifin and hosted by Quimby’s Bookstore.

Facebook event: https://www.facebook.com/events/213680916502554/

Thank you to Zine Club member Anna Jo Beck for designing our flyer this month, including a mesmerizing gif version!

 

Postponing March 16th Event Until a Undeclared later date: Isabelle Rizo Reads Tarot

Published on February 19, 2020 0 Comments
Mar ’20
16
6:00 pm

 

*Until COVID-19 status has been changed, we are post-poning this event until an undeclared later date. Stay tuned to quimbys.com for info about the rescheduling.*

 

 

 

Last month’s tarot readings went so well with Isabelle Rizo that we’ve invited her back for another night!

In this evening of exploring Tarot with Transylvanian Mystic, Hypnotist, and Artist Isabelle Rizo learn what the tarot cards will tell you. Having used tarot since 2014 as a way to ground herself on her travels she found the collective unconscious easily mirrored through her own experience.You can bring a simple question and we have a conversation with the cards, or bring something that you need specific guidance on. Isabelle’s readings are inspired by her Romanian upbringing, using Eastern European folk stories, symbolism, and ethnographic influences to give nuanced readings and performances. 

“Isabelle witnesses and holds safe space wherever she goes.” –Emily Stroia, Author of Into the Light

Isabelle has been featured in such places as: Atlas Obscura, Prague College, The Whoroscope Witch Podcast, and was hired by GOOP as a resident tarot reader. Way Cool Magazine. She is the resident tarot teacher at Inner Sense Healing Arts where she teaches every Wednesday night in Chicago. Her work and workshops have also been featured at Occult of the Bazaar, She Spoke International Art Exhibition, and Sideshow Gallery. She runs her hypnosis practice with a group of amazing diverse and queer therapists at Art of Balance in Chicago as well Head Facilitator of The Coven which is an online and offline group of artists, healers, and liminal space dwellers with international and local members. 

Readings $5 – $25

For more info visit isabellerizo.com

Monday, March 16th, 6-9pm

Facebook event invite here.

Quimby’s Bookstore February Newsletter Now Available

Published on February 8, 2020 0 Comments

The February Quimby’s Bookstore Newsletter available now!