Quimby’s Open on a Tuesday! December 24th, noon to 6pm!

Dec ’24
24
12:00 pm

We’re normally closed on Tuesdays! But Tuesday, December 24th we’ll be open from noon to 6! Lucky you! This isolated Tuesday we thought you might want it. Live it up!

Wanna know about our other holiday hours? We’re closed on Dec 25th and Jan 1st. Stay in and read all those zines and books and comics you have piling up!

Offsite: Zine Club Chicago on Marz: How to Survive a Chicago Winter Zinemaking Hangout, Dec 5th

Dec ’24
5
7:00 pm

Zine Club Chicago on Marz: How to Survive a Chicago Winter Zinemaking Hangout

Life on Marz Community Club, 1950 N. Western Ave. in Logan Square/Bucktown

7 – 9 p.m. Thursday, December 5, 2024

Free!

In December, Zine Club Chicago will be easing into the frosty season with a free zinemaking hangout in collaboration with our friends at Life on Marz Community Club! Y’all are invited to help create a group zine on the theme How to Survive a Chicago Winter.

Please join us for Zine Club Chicago on Marz: How to Survive a Chicago Winter Zinemaking Hangout, 7-9 p.m. Thursday, December 5 at Life on Marz Community Club, 1950 N. Western Ave. in Logan Square/Bucktown. Free!

Zine Club Chicago will provide all the zinemaking supplies! Just bring your creativity. Life on Marz Community Club, our favorite locally owned taproom and café space, offers awesome alcoholic, CBD, and non-alcoholic beverages from Marz Brewery and more, plus some very fun snacks, for purchase. The taproom also will be holding a DJ Night after our event wraps up at 9 p.m., and we encourage y’all to stick around for some chill jams, too!

Zine newbies and longtime enthusiasts alike are always welcome at Zine Club Chicago. This free event series is produced by Cynthia E. Hanifin and sponsored by Quimby’s Bookstore. Anna Jo Beck designs our monthly flyers and created our logo.

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

lifeonmarz.club

Facebook event invite here.

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A flyer featuring a photo of snow-dusted rooftops at the Western Pink Line stop and this text: “Zine Club Chicago on Marz: How to Survive a Chicago Winter; 7-9 p.m. Thursday, December 5; Life on Marz Community Club, 1950 N. Western Ave; Free!; Info at quimbys.com”

Tarot Readings by Echo, Dec 14th

Dec ’24
14
12:00 pm

Don’t miss an afternoon of tarot readings by Echo! She’ll be here to read your cards on Sat, Dec 14th, noon to 4pm! Echo has been reading tarot cards for many years. She uses tarot as a mind-opening tool, a method for helping us see more, a path illuminator. Find her on the internet at @fraulein_echo + echothehuman.com.

Facebook event invite is here.

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

Dec ’24
19
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 PencilPunk 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

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 StringerRiding 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