Looking for a Unique Gift? Send a Qustomized Quimby’s Zine Package!

Not sure what to get a certain tough-to-shop-for someone on your gift list this year? May we suggest a Qustomized Quimby’s Zine Package? You choose the denomination (we offer $25, $69, and $100 options) and tell us a little something about what your recipient is into, and our zine specialists will choose a unique assortment of self-published delights! Oh, and our Qustomized Quimby’s Zine Packages make a great lil’ treat for yourself, too.
Here’s an example: The person who will receive the $25 Qustomized Zine Package in this photo loves animals, resisting our robot overlords, travel, smart cultural analysis, and slice-of-life stories. Look at that awesome selection of ziney goodness that will be arriving in their mailbox, along with some free Quimby’s bookmarks!
Qustomized Zine Packages are available right here on our website only. If you’d like some help putting together a customized gift while shopping in our store, we’ll be happy to assist you in person! And yeah, if you prefer to let your gift recipient choose some fun new zines on their own, we’ve got gift cards available online and in-store, as well.

December Newsletter Out Now!

Read it here and make sure you sign up to get it in your inbox at quimbys.com.

New Stuff This Week

 

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Zines

New zines from Jam: Paper Garden #2 $6, Calcium Ornament $7, Lefty Life Forms $2, Gourd Town $2

Vault of Slack #5 by Xenofact $8

various photo zines by Larry Wolf, $10 each: In Conversation (multiple issues), Rough Cut & more.

issues Thirteen Facts, $2 each: #14 Repo Man, #16 Maurice Sendak, #17 Phantom of the Opera

Christmas Songs by Dave (Lazer Attack Zines) $4

Fall Friends by Jax Fleming $4

Laced $2

Behind the Screams: Interviews from All Corners of the Chicago Alternative Music Scene by Eleanor Coughlin $5

Park the Car: A Mini Zine by Lizzie Cooper #1 & #2 $2.50 each

zines by Lorelei Preus $4.44 each: Commuter Cats, I Love Paczki, Bat Zine

Librarian Against AI or I Think You Should Leave by Violet B. Fox $5

Dragon Within Antarctica’s Prison by Will Dee $6

New zines from Fluke Publishing, $5 each: Martha #2 Art and Words to Look Upon and Think About, Tiger and Donuts #1

The Society of Avian Dreamers – July 13 2024 by Amaranta Isyemille Lara Ramos $8

Comics

Slow Leak #4 by Johnny Sampson $15

I Am Okay by Sarah Becan $10

(Travel) Ghouls – Bonus Supplementary Issue #4.44 by Josh Simmons $2

Wildie by Atlas Power $5

Scythe Unseen – Poems and Drawings by Tom Orr $5

Sheeted Dead #2 by Michelle Spadafore (Urban Ochre Press Comics) $7

Desert Rats #2 by Nick Bunch $10

Nose Bleed #2 by Derick Jones $10

Evidence of Small Pleasures by Sev GT $2

Graphic Novels

The Moon and Serpent Bumper Book of Magic by Alan Moore, Steve Moore & more $49.99

(f)Art Books

The World of Banksy by Alessandra Mattanza $35

Politics & Revolution

Project Censored’s State of the Free Press 2025 edited by Andy Lee Roth & Mickey Huff, illustrated by Anson Stevens-Bollen $19.95

Mayhem & Outer Limits

Mastering the Art of Ritual Magick by Frater Barrabbas $39.95

Appendix N, revised and expanded edition: Weird Tales From the Roots of Dungeons & Dragons edited by Peter Bebergal (Strange Attractor Press) $22.95

Essay

How to Fuck Like a Girl: Essays by Vera Blossom $17.95

Music Books

The Other Side of Reason by Andrew Schmidt (Hozac Books) $27.99

Music from Elsewhere: Haunting Tunes from the Afterlife, Alien Worlds and Occult Realms by Doug Skinner (Strange Attractor Press) $22.95

Magazines

Tape Op #164 $5.99

Chap Books & Lit Journals

Poetry by Amaranta Isyemille Lara Ramos: Tripas an Odyssey in Haiku $22, Holydaze Again $5

Overtime Hour 69 Vitality by Dylan Bach (Blue Cubicle Press) $2

You’ll Hear From Me This Week by Seth Andrew Bearman $16.50

Moss Piglet November 2024 Patterns $15

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”