Zine Club Chicago Online: All Wrapped Up Zinemaking Workshop with Liz Mason, Dec 19th

Published on November 27, 2024 0 Comments
Dec ’24
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7:30 pm

Zine Club Chicago Online: All Wrapped Up Zinemaking Workshop with Liz Mason

7:30 p.m. CT Thursday, December 19, 2024

Online! Free! On Zoom, RSVP info below

Zine Club Chicago is putting a bow on 2024 with their annual December online zinemaking workshop led by our own Liz Mason! We’ll be creating mini zines that celebrate our personal highlights of this year.

Grab your zinemaking supplies*, BYOH(ot)C(hocolate), and join us on Zoom for Zine Club Chicago Online: All Wrapped Up Zinemaking Workshop with Liz Mason at 7:30 p.m. CT Thursday, December 19, 2024.

** RSVP required ** We want to make sure that our online Zine Club Chicago events are a safe space, so we won’t be releasing the Zoom link publicly. If you’d like to attend, please email zineclubchicago@gmail.com to RSVP by 5 p.m. CT Wednesday, Dec. 18 (the day before our event). We’ll email you the Zoom link by 5 p.m. CT on Thursday, Dec. 19.

 

Liz Mason is a founding member of Zine Club Chicago. She publishes, among other things, Caboose, which won First Runner-Up in the Best Zine Category in the Chicago Reader’s 2023 poll. Her work has been in places like Broken Pencil, Punk Planet, The Zine Yearbook and the back of her friend’s toilets. She’s worked at Quimby’s Bookstore since 2001 in a state of perpetual arrested development. Find her at LizMasonIsAwesome.com + Etsy at LizMasonZines + @caboosezine at all the places.

Zine newbies and longtime enthusiasts alike are always welcome at Zine Club Chicago. This free monthly event series is produced by Cynthia E. Hanifin and sponsored by Quimby’s Bookstore. Anna Jo Beck designs our monthly flyers, created our logo, and made our Zine Club Chicago Shout-Outs site, where folks can peruse and recommend zines we’ve discussed at our events: https://zineclubchicagoshoutouts.spread.name/

 

More info on the Zine Club Chicago social media channels: @zineclubchicago

* You’ll need a few sheets of 8.5×11” paper, a pair of scissors, whichever implements you prefer for writing/drawing/etc., and your creativity! If you’ve never made a mini zine before, here’s a quick video tutorial (and we can provide any assistance you need at the event, too): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wiUzo41dh5Q

Here’s the Facebook event invite.

Gift Guides to Get You in the Giving Spirit

Published on November 26, 2024 0 Comments

Since the season of giving is fast upon us, we at Quimby’s would like to offer you some guidance in your gifting.  So we will be posting our staff-curated gift guides over the next few weeks on our socials, and I’ve been honored with going first.

For the HORROR QUEEN in your life who isn’t ready for Halloween to be over, we’ve got everything from comics and zines, to stickers and poetry, and even a game!  And just to prove that I’m recommending for a friend, I’ll start with my most recent purchase for myself and work back to one of my favorites.

As a lifelong Gorey-phile, I bought Escape From The Evil Garden an Edward Gorey board game the moment we were both in the shop together.  I told myself it was an early Christmas present, but I already opened it and played with my bae (and won!).  The game is for ages 10 and up and plays like a spooky, more advanced Candyland. You might be cast as the Cheerful Woman or the Unwell Man with traits and abilities to match; then you have to make your way through the labyrinth to get out of the garden, battling plants and animals for your survival.  So much fun.

If you’re more in the mood for stocking stuffers, there are oh so many spooky stickers.  I love this sexy trick-or-treater, Bat Girl drawn by Mel Stringer.  Riding Roller Coasters with Vincent Price is a micro-zine by Dayna Meyer celebrating the Master of Horror’s love of the terrifying amusement park ride.  I also really enjoy Spooky Nova by Ari Ganahl.  This all-ages mini-comic shows the meet-cute between a kid and a friendly ghost trick or treating (with a poke at gender roles).  Perfection.

From the folx at Pork Belly Press, I would recommend haunted, a limited edition anthology of poems rooted in the idea of haunting.  If you’ve never noticed the gorgeous chapbooks they make, the cover designs would make them stand out even if we didn’t have them in a special spot on the chapbooks rack.  They’re also hand-numbered and hand-sewn, so yes, I swoon over these.

And last but certainly not least on my list is My Favorite Thing Is Monsters Books One and Two by Emil Ferris.  I’ve included both in case your HORROR QUEEN already has the first or if you’re just feeling generous.  These beautiful comics are drawn in heavy pen and follow Karen, an adolescent who sees themself as a werewolf, as they try to solve the mysteries of the adult world while characterizing everyone as monsters of the silver screen.  Extra bonus features include being created by a Chicago native, so there’s lots of Uptown and the Art Institute among other great Chicago locations and legends.  Among my favorite comic books of all time, I cannot recommend these books enough, whether or not you love horror.

I hope this helps ease you into this holiday season.  And if you’ve already checked your favorite HORROR QUEEN off your list, then stay tuned in on our social media for more gift guides to come.

-elizabeth @getbacktoprint

Now Ya Know!: 2024 Holiday Hours & Shipping Deadline

Published on November 25, 2024 0 Comments

Quimby’s will be closed Nov 28th, Dec 25th and Jan 1st. Now ya know!

And guess what? We’ll be open on one Tuesday! 12/24 noon to 6. Thought you’d want that day to shop, even though we’re normally closed on that day of the week. Now you know that also!

Are you in the U.S. and hoping to get your mail order by Dec 24th? Please place your order by Dec 12th. Now ya know about that too!

Now you know everything, Know-It-All!

New Stuff This Week

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Zines

more zines from Catmothcrow: Zines as Activism: An Abridged History $1, Ritual Tradition $1, Catmothcrow Guide to Terrariums by Dayna Moth $6

more zines by John Dishwasher: Beauty as Power $3, Street Gallery vol 2 Photographs with Street Art from Southern California and Baja, California (Six Fires Press) $15

Loneliness of the Electric Menorah by Aaron Cometbus (originally Cometbus #51) (PM Press) $12.95

Cross Mountain by Isaac Barnett $15

American Surveillance: A Video Look Into Human Experience by Dylan Simon $12

A Document of a Chicago Music Community: The Second One by Braeden Long $10

Life of Work issues #3 & #4 by David LaBounty $3 each

issues of Sabotage, $7 each: Top Secret CIA Operations, Native Resistance Part 1 & more.

Nuclear Eye #1 by Dan Ducas $5

new comics by Steve Schaberg: Car World $15, Manifest Content Dream Comics $10

Spukschloss and Heimweh Unofficial Publication $8

Die Madchen $5

…and zine-related stickers $1.99 each: Ask Me About My Long Arm Stapler, This Is Going In My Perzine, I’d Rather Be at a Zine Fest

Comics

comics by Sam Rose, $1 each: Sex and Magic, Feygele Shabbes Parshas Vayechi 5784 & more.

Funeral Dreams by Danielle Stanko $10

Art Books

The British Invasion! by Herve Bourhis $34.99

Music Books

High And Rising: A Book About De La Soul by Marcus J. Moore $29.99

What is Anarchist Music by Ruud Noys (PM Press) $5

Piss in the Wind vol 1 Misadventures of an Indie Troubadour by Brett Newski $16

A bounty from Underworld Amusememts:
Sorceries and Scandals of Satan by Henry M. Tichenor $15.95
Infernalia by Michael Rose $16.95
Critique of Anarchist Communism by Ken Knudson $6.95
Hotcha! Three Vintage Booklets on Scandalous Broads and Sinful Sweethearts $14.95
Occult Technology of Power by the Transcriber $8.88
Anarchist Ephemera by Peter Lamborn Wilson $8
…and more!

Mayhem & Outer Limits

How to Build a Universe That Doesn’t Fall Apart Two Days Later by Philip K. Dick (Isolarii) $17.95

Haunted World: 101 Ghostly Places and Encounters by Theresa Cheung $17.99

Beyond Esoteric: Escaping Prison Planet (2nd Edition) by Brad Olsen $22.95

Essays

Opinions: A Decade of Arguments, Criticism, and Minding Other People’s Business by Roxane Gay $19.99

Fiction

Nosferatu Unbound edited by Steven Paulsen Christopher Sequeira $14.99

The House on the Borderland by William Hope Hodgson (British Library Tales of the Weird Series) $16.99

Food

Cocktails from the Crypt: Terrifying Yet Delicious Concoctions Inspired by Your Favorite Horror Films by Jonathan Dehaan & Kimberley Elizabeth $23.99

Poetry

20 Erasure Poems of Jules Verne’s 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea by Jennifer Roche $14.99

Sexxxy

Butt Magazine #35 $17

Newspapers

County Highway vol 2 #3 Nov Dec 2024 $8.50

New Stuff This Week

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Restocks and new stuff from Arcane Bullshit, Stay Home Club & Badaboom Studio! The gifty shit is coming in fast and furious.

Zines

Zines by Hamish Ironside: Saudade issues #6-#8 $5 each, Tacky Tiger #2 The World’s Only Sparks Zine $5

Leaf #1 Nov 24 by T E P Noodle $5

Photo zines by J. Daniel Hud: Grasshopper Looking at Itself $18, Business Trip – Pictures From Downtown Chicago with Michael Gerstein, Jack McKinney, Ludvig Peres and Jordan Putt $24.99

Quarter Life Crisis #1 Huh, Is That Who I Think It Is? $2

Magic Mirrors edited by Lulu Schwed issues #3 and #4 $6 each

Twelve Things I Found While Killing Time at Walmart by T. Wesley Snead $2

Secrets Inside Cabling #73 by Calliope Neurotoxin $7

Creepy Ephemera by Donna Ramone $3 each: American Christmas – A Pack of Lies, Letters to Santa, The Christmas Gavle Goat

Ice Cream Man #1 by Otron Hastings $4

999 Stories About Dying by Dan Gleason $3

Love Letters for Nesting Dolls by Stephanie and Heather Lynn $5

Photo zines by Mary $15 each: Styles of the Hood August 2024, Felt, Hexagons 2024

Gab Magazine #1 $20

Comics

Dust Devil: Curse of the Remolino by Charlie Angell and Orenthal Twain $16

Two Invisible Friends in 50,000 Years of Darkness by Twyla Rhode $15

Pigeonface – Hair of the Dog by Josh Josh Jones and T. Wesley Snead $5

Comics by Conor Stechschulte: Crepuscular #1 $12, ORD-CDG-ORD $7

Zachary in the Shadow World by Zak Biggard, various issues

Dead Time Data by Andy Leuenberger issues $5 & #6 $10 each

limbs by Tori Holder $7

Domesticates #1 by Andrew Conti $10

Graphic Novels

Atlas Comics Library vol 4/War Comics vol 1 edited by Dr Michael J. Vassallo (Fantagraphics) $34.99

Politics & Revolution Books

To Rob a Bank Is an Honor by Lucio Urtubia (AK Press) $22

Essay (Sort of)

The Absence of Myth: Writings on Surrealism by Georges Bataille $24.95

American Scary: A History of Horror, from Salem to Stephen King and Beyond by Jeremy Dauber $32

Art & Design Books

Elements: Chaos, order and the five elemental forces by Stephen Ellcock $35

Krampus Greeting Cards Box Set 3 (Last Gasp) $24.95

Mayhem & Outer Limits

STOP Looking At My Tiny Town: An Arcane Bullshit catastrophe $18

Time Expansion Experiences: The Psychology of Time Perception and the Illusion of Linear Time by Steve Taylor $21.95

Stories of the Occult: Supernatural Happenings and Strange Tales from Around the World by Jamie King $11.99

Born with a Tail: The Devilish Life and Wicked Times of Anton Szandor LaVey, Founder of the Church of Satan by Doug Brod $31

Killer Cocktails: Dangerous Drinks Inspired by History’s Most Nefarious Criminals by Holly Frey & Maria Trimarchi $29.00

RedHanded: An Exploration of Criminals, Cannibals, Cults, and What Makes a Killer Tick by Suruthi Bala & Hannah Maguire $18.99

The Little Book of Cults: A Pocket Guide to the World’s Most Notorious Cults by Jamie King $10.99

Atlas Obscura: Wild Life: An Explorer’s Guide to the World’s Living Wonders by Cara Giaimo, Joshua Foer & more. $40

Music Books

New 33 1/3 books, $14.95 each: Kate Bush’s Hounds of Love by Leah Kardos & Modest Mouse’s The Moon & Antarctica by Zachary Petit

Ever Fallen in Love: The Lost Buzzcocks Tapes by Pete Shelley with Louie Shelley $16.99

MC5: An Oral Biography of Rock’s Most Revolutionary Band by Brad Tolinski, Jaan Uhelszki & Ben Edmonds $30

Self-Care

The Essential Dr. Faith: Using Science to Boost Your Brain, Body, Intimacy, and Boundaries by Faith G. Harper (Microcosm Publishing) $28.95

Cooking with Magic Mushrooms: The Psilocybin Cookbook by David Connell (Microcosm Publishing) $19.95

Fiction

Daughters of the Nile by Zahra Barri (Unbound) $18

The City and Its Uncertain Walls: A Novel by Haruki Murakami $35

In Thrall by Jane Delynn $17.95

Wellness: A Novel by Nathan Hill $19

The Black Hunger by Nicholas Pullen $19.99

Portals by Noel Sevilla $17

Set My Heart on Fire: A Novel by Izumi Suzuki $19.95

Lit Journals & Chap Books

Midnight Mind #7 $12

Agon Journal #1 $24.99

Restocks and new titles from porkbelly press chap books: Woman the River by Sayuri M. Ayers $13, Mascara Boobs and Headbands by Susan Milchman $9, Final Girl: An Anthology of Survival by Nicci Mechler $13, Few Mythic Paths by Mari Ness $13, For Every Tower a Princess by Kathryn Kulpa $9

Sexxxy

Elska #49 Salt Lake City, Utah $20