New Stuff This Week

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Zines

Looping the Loop: A Horror Story by Four Typewriters With Assistance by Charles McKelvy $8

This Old Typewriter Typing Tales by Ronald J. Remington and illustrated by Lisa Quinlan Heibutzki and Charles McKelvy $20

Fluke #21 The Colossus Compendium $5

Cautionary Reflections by Leah Spears $4

Sad Unicorn by William J. O Brien $10

Comics

You Don’t Get There From Here issues #61-#63 Diary Comics by Carrie McNinch $4 each

Bottom’s Up! by Barbara Benas (Silver Sprocket) $9.99 – On sale 7/31!

CCC #1 Comics College Chicago – Introduction to Comics: A New Magazine of Comixschool USA Notes $10

Nonprose #2 by Kevin H. $5

Compost This Zine by Mel Dempsey, illustrated by Sean Dempsey $2.50

Graphic Novels

The Wendy Award by Walter Scott (Drawn & Quarterly) $22.95

La Arruga vol 1 by Jimena Lloreda Droz $24.99

Moomin Adventures: Book One by Tove & Lars Jansson (Drawn & Quarterly) $22.95

Braba: A Brazilian Comics Anthology edited by Rafael Grampa & Janaina de Luna (Fantagraphics) $29.99

The Nancy Show: Celebrating the Art of Ernie Bushmiller edited by Peter Maresca & Brian Walker (Fantagraphics Sunday Press Books) $22.99

Art & Design Books

Insectile Inspiration: Insects in Art and Illustration (Victionary) $45

Politics & Revolution Books

Capitalism: A Horror Story: Gothic Marxism and the Dark Side of the Radical Imagination by Jon Greenaway $14.95

Mutual Aid by Peter Kropotkin $18

Dynamite Nashville: Unmasking the FBI, the KKK, and the Bombers Beyond their Control by Betsy Phillips (Third Man Books) $21.95

Our History Is the Future: Standing Rock Versus the Dakota Access Pipeline, and the Long Tradition of Indigenous Resistance by Nick Estes (Haymarket) $20.95

Imaginary Power, Real Horizons: The Practicality of Utopianism by Richard Gilman-Opalsky (AK Press) $21

Burning Rage of a Dying Planet: The FBI vs. the Earth Liberation Front by Craig Rosebraugh (Microcosm Publishing) $19.95

Dismantling Mass Incarceration: A Handbook for Change edited by Premal Dharia, James Forman, Jr. & Maria Hawilo $20

Music & Film Books

1967: How I Got There and Why I Never Left by Robyn Hitchcock (Akashic) $26.95

Corpses, Fools and Monsters: The History and Future of Transness in Cinema by Willow Maclay & Caden Gardner (Repeater) $19.95

Help

Unfuck Your Shame: Using Science to Accept Our Feelings, Resolve Guilt, and Connect with Ourselves by Faith G. Harper (Microcosm Publishing) $14.95

Utopian Witch: Solarpunk Magick to Fight Climate Change and Save the World by Justine Norton-Kertson (Microcosm Publishing) $19.95

Fiction

Lo Fi: A Novel by Liz Riggs $29

The Body Harvest by Michael J. Seidlinger $17.95

On Strike against God by Joanna Russ, edited by Alec Pollak (Feminist Press) $17.95

Newspapers

County Highway vol 2 #1 July August 2024 $8.50

Chap Books & Lit Journals

Rotten Teeth Candy Heart by Halliday Carpender $5

Moss Piglet July 2024 The Dance Issue $12

…and:

Riso printed composition notebooks by Next Chapter Studio – various sizes!

Astrology Diary 2025 $22.95

Verso Radical Diary and Weekly Planner 2025 $19.95

Chicago Zine Fest + Midwest Perzine Fest, Oct 5th

Published on July 5, 2024 0 Comments
Oct
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11:00 am

Quimby’s is a co-sponsor for Chicago Zine Fest and Midwest Perzine Fest 2024. CZF will house MWPZF in the Perzine Alley!

The exhibition day for Chicago Zine Fest / Midwest Perzine Fest 2024 will take place Saturday, October 5 (11 am-6 pm) at the Columbia College Student Center (754 S Wabash Ave). All events during the weekend are FREE and open to the public!

Chicago Zine Fest is a celebration of small press and independent publishers, with an annual festival of workshops and the big expo day where 100+ zinesters sell and trade their zines. Midwest Perzine Fest features local, midwestern and perzinesters* from across the country!

*as in “personal zine,” eh?

 

More info coming soon!

CZF poster by @onlinevalentine

MWPZF poster by @angel.xoxoxoxox

CAKE Chicago, Aug 24th + 25th

Published on July 4, 2024 0 Comments
Aug
24
11:00 am
Aug
25
11:00 am

Quimby’s is a proud co-sponsor of CAKE 2024, Chicago Alternative Comics Expo.

CAKE 2024 will be held:

August 24 (11am-6pm) – August 25 (11pm-5pm), 2024

WHERE:
Zhou B. Art Center

1029 W 35th St.

Chicago, IL 60609

Free and open to the public!

SPECIAL GUESTS, POSTER ARTIST AND MORE TO BE ANNOUNCED…

More info at cakechicago.com.

Zine Camp at the Richard J. Daley Branch of the Chicago Public Library, July 21st

Published on June 29, 2024 0 Comments
Jul
21
1:00 pm

Zine Camp 2024 presented by Zine Club Chicago

1 p.m. – 5 p.m.  Sunday, July 21, 2024

Richard J. Daley branch of the Chicago Public Library

3400 S. Halsted St. in Bridgeport

Free!

Zine Camp, the annual summer camp-style hangout for folks who love zines presented by Zine Club Chicago, returns this July at a new location in Bridgeport!

Zine campers, get ready for a fun day of zinemaking, workshops, zine trading, socializing, snax, and more! Newbies and Zine Club Chicago regulars alike are welcome at Zine Camp 2024, 1 p.m.-5 p.m. Sunday, July 21 at the Richard J. Daley branch of the Chicago Public Library, 3400 S. Halsted St. in Bridgeport. Free!

Camp activities include:

*Fortune teller zine workshop led by Larry Wolf!
*An impromptu rhyming zine appreciation jam led by Ayun Halliday!
*Mixtape-themed zine workshop led by Cynthia E. Hanifin!
*Zinemaking stations for adults and kids!
*All. the. snacks! (s’mores and more)

Zine Club Chicago also be hosting a pen pal station so you can strike up a correspondence with an out-of-town zine friend! Can’t make it to Zine Camp and want a pen pal? Sign up here: tiny.cc/ZineCamp2024PenPals

Feel free to drop in anytime between 1-5 p.m. and stay for as long as you like. Zine Camp homebase will be the indoor Community Room at the Richard J. Daley library branch, with activities around the fountain outdoors as weather permits. Make sure to visit the brand-new Zine Club Chicago South Side Zine Library while you’re in the Community Room, too!

Need a map, directions to help you get there, accessibility information, and details about our afterparty? You can find all the info about Zine Camp 2024 (including where we’re going for the afterparty!) at zine.camp + @zineclubchicago + quimbys.com

Zine Camp is made possible by the Richard J. Daley branch of the Chicago Public Library and branch manager Jeremy Kitchen; Quimby’s Bookstore and shop manager Liz Mason; and zinemakers Lucinda J. Williams and Johnny Misfit.

Shoutout to the Zine Camp Counselors: Aim Beland, Michael Verdi, Ayun Halliday, Liz Mason, and Cynthia E. Hanifin.

Thank you to Aim Beland for designing the Zine Camp 2024 logo and poster!

Facebook Event Link is here!

Image description

A blue flyer with the illustration of an orange tent made out of a stitchbound zine and a tree branch, with this text: “Zine Camp 2024; A (free) meetup for those who love zines!; Brought to you by Zine Club Chicago; 1-5 p.m. July 21th; Richard J. Daley branch of the Chicago Public Library, 3400 S. Halsted St. (Bridgeport, Chicago); for more info, visit zine.camp”

Note: this event is not at Quimby’s!

New Stuff This Week

Published on June 29, 2024 0 Comments

Zines

From the Mattazine Society:
Por El Amor De Kid Congo Powers $12
Vax Zine by Annie Vaxxer, MBA $6
Fagskins $2
How to Play Hide the Snake $2

Spiderweb Salon zines:
You Are Queer by OUTreach Denton $7
Lets Make a Zine $5
This Is How You Get Ants by Courtney Marie $5
…and more.

Host and Gather – Chili Potato Ideas for Entertaining by Jen Mayer $18

Zines by Simon Moreton:
Now Is the Time to Know Everything $13
Minor Leagues #11 & 12 $5, $6

From Sheer Spite Press/Lee P.:
Five Friendship Fantasies $3.33
Surprisingly OK: What Healing Trauma Feels Like $8.33
…and more.

Glass #1 $7

Comics

Comics from Dave Ortega:
School of the Americas $10
Hacienda #1 & #2 $10 each
De Las Casas $6
…and more.

Monster Crime by Johnny Damm $10

Graphic Novels

Putty Pygmalion by Lonnie Garcia (Silver Sprocket) $15.99

Soft cover versions of books published by Avery Hill that we had in hardcover:
Walking Distance by Lizzy Stewart $12.99
The Hard Switch by Owen D. Pomery $18.99 (& Pomery’s Victory Point $16.99)

Thousand Oaks Book 3 Monolith Mall by Blaise Moritz $15

Lavender Clouds: Comics about Neurodivergence and Mental Health by Bex Ollerton $16.99

You and a Bike and a Road by Eleanor Davis (Fantagraphics) $22.99

J + K by John Pham (Fantagraphics) $19.99

Art & Photo Books

Shamanic Journey: The Art of Chris Dyer (Last Gasp) $50

Family Values: Kurt, Courtney & Frances Bean by Guzman $29.95

This is a Book for People Who Love Tattoos by Verena Hutter and illustrated by Eric Hinkley $17

Music Books

Into the Void: From Birth to Black Sabbath—And Beyond by Geezer Butler $19.99

Futuromania : Electronic Dreams, Desiring Machines, and Tomorrow’s Music Today
Simon Reynolds $21.99

Self-Improvement + Doing Stuff + Food

RAPilates: Body and Mind Conditioning in the Digital Age by Chuck D & Kathy Lopez $29.95

The Original Rider Waite Book Of Ceremonial Magic by A. E. Waite $36.99

No Meat Required: The Cultural History and Culinary Future of Plant-Based Eating by Alicia Kennedy $17.95

Essay Books

The Case of Lizzie Borden and Other Writings: Tales of a Newspaper Woman by Elizabeth Garver Jordan, edited by Jane Carr and Lori Harrison Kahan $22

A Place of Our Own: Six Spaces That Shaped Queer Women’s Culture by June Thomas $30

Accept Yourself Or Die: From Mormon Missionary to Trans Punk by Imogen Reid / Crossdresser Growing Up Trans in the 1990s and 2000s by Kat Rogue (Sheer Spite Press) $10

Fiction

The Sons of El Rey: A Novel by Alex Espinoza $28.99

How to Make a Horror Movie and Survive: A Novel by Craig DiLouie $19.99

One or Several Deserts by Carter St Hogan $16.95

Love Letters to a Serial Killer by Tasha Coryell $29

Chap Books & Poetry

Fat Girl Magic by Kat Savage (Central Avenue Poetry) $17.99

Digging Through Trash Looking 4 Rings $5

Chapbooks by Ivan Kuhari/J. Maloof:
Dropout $15
Plug In $15
Silhouettes $20
…and more

Folklore

Cryptids, Creatures & Critters: A Manual of Monsters & Mythos from Around the World by Rachel Quinney $19.99

Sexxxy

Why Are People Into That?: A Cultural Investigation of Kink by Tina Horn $30

Magazines

Double Blind issues #10 & #11 $15 each

Headmaster #10 $24.99

Gush vol 1 #1 $10

…And:
Stickers and notebooks from BoyPilot Goods