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

Published on March 3, 2020 0 Comments

Mar ’20

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

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!

Amy Lockhart & Maggie Umber Signing, March 12th

Published on January 25, 2020 0 Comments

Mar ’20

7:00 pm

Local treasures, Amy Lockhart and Maggie Umber join forces to celebrate new works at Quimby’s! Animator and cartoonist Amy Lockhart (aka Amy Logheart) will read from and sign her new book, Ditch Life, an absurdist black comedy published via Fantagraphics FU Press imprint. Ditch Life tells the tale of two luckless ditch dwellers as they navigate a shape-shifting pizza box, a botched lobotomy, Hollywood betrayal, celebrity obsession, wealth disparity, and a brood of maggot children who just want to be loved! The book is published in full-color hardcover and also includes a fold-out board game, Females As: Furniture!

Amy Lockhart is a filmmaker, animator and artist. Her animations have screened internationally, including the Whitney, NY, British Film Institute, N.Y. Anthology Film Archives, Carnegie Mellon, GLAS Animation Festival, Ann Arbor Film Festival, Hiroshima International Animation Festival and The Ottawa International Animation Festival. Lockhart has received fellowship at the National Film Board of Canada and support from the Canada Council for the Arts. She has completed residencies at Calgary’s Quickdraw Animation Society, Struts Gallery, and The School of the Art Institute of Chicago. Her drawings, comics and paintings have been published by Fantagraphics (Ditch Life, 2019), Drawn & Quarterly (Dirty Dishes, 2009), and by Colour Code (Looking Inward), 2016.

Maggie Umber paints, prints and programs comics and she’s a co-Founder of the alternative comics publishing label 2dcloud. She’s published three graphic novels with 2dcloud (Sound of Snow Falling, Time Capsule and 270°) and her work has been widely anthologized. She’ll be signing a new story, “The Intoxicated” in Now: The New Anthology #8, which will debut at the event and also includes new work from Zuzu, Noah Van Sciver, Tara Booth, and others!

“[Ditch Life] is legitimately armed and even dangerous stuff, with its barbs aimed at entirely deserving targets.” –Daily Grindhouse

“Maggie Umber is one of the unsung heroes of art comics.” –Sequential State

For more info:

Fantagraphics.com

Facebook Event Invite

Thursday, March 12th, 7pm – Free Event