New Stuff This Week

Published on January 4, 2014 1 Comment

xeroxferoxXerox Ferox: The Wild World of the Horror Film Fanzine by John Szpunar (Headpress) $34.95 – Xeroxferox is the first book to cover the horror film fanzines and the culture they spawned…XEROXFEROX traces the rise of the horror film fanzine, from the Famous Monster-starved kids of the 1960s to the splatter-crazed gorehounds of the Fangoria generation.

zines & zine-related
Put a Egg On It #8 Win 13 $7.00
Vintage Pin Up Girls $10.00
Halfling Zine #2 2013 $7.00
I’m Definitely Not Going On Tour: Stories and Thoughts From the Race Riot Tour (Think About the Bubbles #9) by Joyce Hatton $2.00
Moral Fiber #9 by Chris Pernula $2.00
Queer Art Activism – various issues by Miyuki Baker $4.00 each
Book of Myths Book #52 by Dan Gleason abnd Theresa Currie $3.00
Last Night at the Casino #6 Dec 13 by BJ McCall $2.00 – Zinester turned card dealer in Vegas!
KerBloom #105 Nov Dec 13 by Artnoose $2.00

comics & comix
Henry and Glenn #4 Forever and Ever by Igloo Tornado and friends $5.00
Last Playlist by Marta Chudolinska $7.00
King Cat #74 by John Porcellino $4.00
New Comics #2 by Patrick Kyle $8.00
The Next World Over by Ian McDuffie $6.00
Blackwax Boulevard  #1 by Dmitri Jackson $5.00

graphic novels & trade paperbacks
Kid Mafia Digest by Michael Deforge (Secret HQ) $10.00 – Collects issues #1-3 of Kid Mafia. Don’t miss Michael DeForge here at Quimby’s Feb 8th!
Qu33r New Comics From Thirty threee Creators $29.99 – Includes work from Edie Fake, Marian Runk, MariNaomi, Diane DiMassa, Ed Luce, Kris Dresen, Carrie McNinch, Nicole Georges and more!

art & design
The Graffiti Cookbook: Complete Do It Yourself Guide to Graffiti by various $29.95
Ed Hardy Interviews by V. Vale  (ReSearch Publications) $14.99

For Kids
Atop a Hill in Frostville by Daniel Frost (ittle Otsu) $15.95

fiction
Monster: A Novel of Frankenstein by Dave Zeltserman $14.95
Sounds of War: Iraq Attack of Thomas Edington by Thomas Ferreolus $10.00
Tale for the Time Being by Ruth Ozeki $16.00

sexy
Delicious Torment a Story of Submission by Alison Tyler (Cleis) $16.95
Study in Fetishisms vol 1 Manifesto $18.00
Transformation #88 $12.50
RFD #156 Win 13 $9.95

music-related
Words Will Break Cement: The Passion of Pussy Riot by Masha Gessen $16.00

politics & revolution
Diaries of an Unfinished Revolution: Voices From Tunis to Damascus by Layla Al Aubaidi and Matthew Cassel $17.00

mags
Cabinet #51 Wheels $12.00
Design Bureau Jan Feb 14 $8.00
ArtForum Jan 14 $10.00
Dwell Feb 14 $5.99
Hi-Fructose #30 $7.95
Skeptic vol 18 #4 $6.95
Skeptical Inquirer Jan Feb 14 vol 38 #1 $4.95
American Atheist 1st Quarter 14 $4.95
True Crime Dec 13 $8.99
Ladygunn #8 $9.99
Dapper Dan #8 Fall Win 13 $10.99
Boneshaker #43-400 A Bicycling Almanac $8.00
Sofilm #2 Dec 13 $9.99
Wax Poetics #57 $11.99
Maximumrocknroll #368 Jan 14
Mojo #242 Jan 14 $9.99
Uncut Special: Neil Young $13.99
Tattoo Traditional Special #10 From Tattoo Life $9.99
Our Tattoos vol 3 Best Tattoos From the Worlds Best Artists (WP Tattoo Series 4) $9.99

poetry, lit journals & chap books
Boulevard of Broken Discourse by Matthew Freeman $11.95
Tombo by WS DiPiero (McSweeneys) $20.00
The Paris Review #207 $15.00
Creative Nonfiction #50 Fall 13 Win 14 $10.00
Six By Six #29 Reduced to Survival $5.00

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Chicago Zine Fest Punk Rock Karaoke Fundraiser at The Beauty Bar 1/9

Published on January 3, 2014 0 Comments

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Prepare to belt out your favorite punk songs Thursday, January 9th at Chicago Zine Fest’s first fundraiser of 2014, their 3rd annual event partnering with Punk Rock Karaoke Chicago at Beauty Bar at 1444 W Chicago Ave.

The Punk Rock Karaoke songbook has selections from bands including Ramones, Rancid, Green Day, Blonde, Against Me!, the Clash, Misfits, the Smiths and more! These tunes will make you pump your fist in the air and pogo around all night long. Bring your friends to join in on the fun.

Beauty Bar staff will offer a unique drink special all night long, a signature martini and a manicure.

Hosts for the night will be the energetic and outrageous duo of Marisa Overton and Tara Anley.

There is a $5 admission which will benefit the 2014 Chicago Zine Fest. The event beings at 8pm and is 21+.

About Chicago Zine Fest: The Chicago Zine Fest is an independent event creating an outlet for small press and independent publishers to showcase their work. Our goal is to make DIY zine-making accessible, highlight the talents of self-published artists, and give independent artists a chance to interact, and swap skills through tabling, community events, and workshops. The festival will be held on March 14 and 15, 2014. For more information visit chicagozinefest.org.

Note: This is NOT at Quimby’s! It is at Beauty Bar at 1444 W Chicago Ave.

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New Stuff This Week

Published on December 21, 2013 2 Comments

BboEmf3CYAAouWUThe Pitchfork Review #1 Win 14 $19.96 – Quarterly music publication that combines new long-form feature stories, photography, illustrations and other ephemera with selected recent pieces from Pitchfork. With contributions from the Pitchfork staff and edited by J.C. Gabel of Stop Smiling and The Chicagoan.

Zine & Zine-Related Book
Pedway of Today by Hui Min Tsen (Green Lantern Press) $15.00 – Always wanted to learn where the pedways in Chicago are? Here’s your chance!
No Regrets: Three Discussions (N+1 Small Book Series) $9.00
Gun Fag Manifesto by Hollister Kopp $20.00
FOUND Parking Notes $16.99 – Courtesy of FOUND Magazine, these 25 reprints of previously found parking notes.
Can’t Tell No One What To Do by Michael F. Conway $4.00
Night Watch #2 Warning Contains Beer Boobs and Barf & Night Watch #3 Eyeball Issue by Tallboy and Krusty $6.00 each
Sutterlinschrift – The Lost German Handwriting by Grace Dobush $4.00
Power Places by Joseph Wilcox $8.00
Museum of Reclaimed Urban Space Opening a Moments Catalog December 8 2012 / Journal of Aesthetics and Protest by Benjamin Shepard, Mrc Herbst and Emily Larned $15.00
Viscera of My Konos #1 Art Zine About Greek Mythology and Mythos by Jake Lawrence, Byron Buslig et al. $2.00
Punks Thugs Vandals $8.00
Margin Creep 2 $6.00
Data Bodies by Daniel Borzutzky $10.00
These Necrotic Ethos Come the Plains by Devin King (Green Lantern Press) $10.00
Judas Goat Quarterly #60 $1.50
Singkre Nisite by Esme O. $6.00

Comics & Comix
You Dont Get There From Here #27 by Carrie McNinch $2.00
Belly Wot Leaflet 2012 Knoze Clippah Edition (Half World Books) $5.00
Seven or Eight by Lara Antal $3.00
Dust Motes Parts 1 and 2 – A Journal Comic by Kevin Budnik $6.00 each
Desk by Leslie Stein (Oily Comics) $1.00
Outside 3 of 3 by Marc Geddes and Warren Craghead (Oily Comics) $1.00
Dumpling King #4 by Alex Kim  (Oily Comics) $1.00
Blood Visions #3  by Zach Worton (Oily Comics) $1.00
Teen Creeps #5 by Charles Forsman (Oily Comics) $1.00
Keep Fresh by Zejian Shen (Retrofit) $6.00
Exes #1 Comic by Dave Kiersh and Cole Johnson $2.00
RL #3 Rosalie Lightning Comic by Tom Hart $3.00

Graphic Novels & Trade Paperbacks
Infomaniacsby Matthew Thurber (Picturebox) $22.95
The Best of Wonder Warthog by Gilbert Shenton $29.95
B+F by Gregory Benton (Adhouse) $19.95
Deep Park by David C. Mahler $12.00
Spy vs Spy Fight to the Finish by Peter Kuper $9.99
Delusional by Farel Dalrymple (Adhouse) $24.95

Art & Design
Greetings From Shitsville UK by Monty Cantsin $24.95
Rope Rapture and Bloodshed by Trevor Brown and Antoine Bernhart $36.00
Inkslingers: Under the Skin by Jakob Schultz et al. $49.95
I Think of Thee When Far Away 16 Postcards by Femke Hiemstra (Last Gasp) $12.95

Film, TV & Music
Hedwig and the Angry Inch: The Complete Text and Lyrics to the Cult Smash by Cameron Mitchell and friends $14.95
This Planet Is Doomed: The Science Fiction Poetry of Sun Ra $12.95

Fiction
Benzedrine Highway Hi-Octane Early Work by Charles Plymell and Allen Ginsberg $14.95

Politics & Revolution
Depression Alphabet Primer by D. Riccuito $19.95

Magazines
Shots #122 Win 13 $6.95
Frankie #56 $13.95
Wrap #9 Telling Tales $19.99
Bizarre #209 Feb 14 $10.50
Interzone #249 Nov Dec 13 $9.99
Backwoodsman vol 35 #1 Jan Feb 14 $4.95
Brownbook #42 $12.95
I-D Magazine Win 13 #328 $12.99
Specimen Magazine #7 $6.00
Wire Dec 13 #358 $11.25
Clash #90 $8.99
Harpers Magazine Jan 14 $6.99

Poetry, Chap Books & Lit Journals
The First Line vol 15 #4 Win 13 $3.00

Sex & Sexy
OP Original Plumbing #12 Trans Male Quarterly $9.00

To see new stuff available from our website, see quimbys.com/store/.

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New Stuff This Week

Published on December 14, 2013 3 Comments

BbT-oIkCcAA1WaGFound Magazine #9 $5.00

Zines & Zine-Related
Healer Huntress by Molly Berkson $5.00
zines by the students of 826CHI, $5 each
Sometimes the Sky Explodes – The Story of a Hamster Named Yams by Leslie Perrine $4.00
Twenty Four Hours #14 Fires by Josh Medsker and Eric Johnston $2.00
Manners Journal #2 Youth Attack 2013 by Mark McCoy $15.00

Comics & Comix
Adapt #2 by Jonny Negron (Floating World) $8.00
On Your Marks #1 2013 Short Run Anthology $4.00
World War 3 Illustrated #45 Before and After $7.00
In Case of Emergency by Matthew Newton and William Arthur $5.00
Of The Sun Drawings by Michael R. Heck $5.00
Delinquent by Heather Benjamin (Floating World Comics) $5.00
Spurt of Blood by O. Hovarth $5.00
Alien Invasion #3 by Lala Albert $5.00
Blackout Friday #1 by Ryan Burns $2.00
Red Hot Rebellion #1 by Tramontana Wonsowski $2.00
Eyesore vol 3 by various $3.00
Detective Goops by Karsten Foerster $5.00

Graphic Novels & Trade Paperbacks
Celebrated Summer by Charles Forsman (Fantagraphics) $16.99
Island of Memory by Edward T. Bak (Floating World Comics) $11.95
Stella and Moonface: The Inability to Share and Stella and Moonface Speak Up by Sara C. Gerou $5.00 each
Happy by Grant Morrison and Darick Robertson $24.99
Crossed vol 7 Badlands by Christos Gage et al. $19.99
End Oh Well – Apocalypse Anthology, with various artists $12.00

Art Books
Keyhole Cuties: The Pin Up Art of Celeste Giuliano $45.00

Mayhem & Outer Limits
Evolutionary UFOlogy by Jordan Hofer $16.99
Our Occulted History: Do the Global Elite Conceal Ancient Aliens? by Jim Marrs $15.99
Haunting of Twenty First Century America: From the Millenium to the New Age by William J. Birnes $18.99
Amateur Radio Goes Camping and RVing: The Illustrated QSL Card History $19.99

Music Books
Experiencing Nirvana: Grunge in Europe, 1989 (Bazillion Points) $34.95 – At last, a Nirvana story with a happy ending. This intimate photo journal captures eight days in Europe with Nirvana, Tad, and Mudhoney in 1989.

Essays
Winter Journal by Paul Auster $15.00

Fiction
Between Heaven and Here SC by Susan Straight (McSweeneys) $15.00

Sex & Sexy
Temptress #5 $6.99
Vagina by Naomi Wolf $15.99

Magazines
Kinfolk vol 10 Discovering New Things to Cook Make and Do $18.00
Newer York, issues #0, #2 and #3 $10.00 each
Girls and Corpses #7 Win 13 $8.95
True Crime Special Win 13 20 All True Murder Stories $6.99
Paleo Magazine Dec 13 Jan14 $6.99
Gothic Beauty #42 $6.95
High Times Feb 14 $5.99
Boneshaker Magazine #13 $12.50
Bicycle Quarterly Win 13 vol 12 #2  $9.50
Laphams Quarterly vol 7 #1 Win 13 $16.00
Taproot #8 $9.00
Fangoria #329 $10.99
Big Takeover #73 $5.99
Ugly Things #36 $9.95
Shindig #36 $12.99
Fader #89 Dec 13 Jan 14 $5.99
Monocle vol 7 #69 Dec 13 $12.00
Progressive Dec 13 $4.95
Earth Island Journal Win 13 vol 28 #4 $5.00

Lit Mags & Chap Books
The Best of McSweeneys, ed. by Dave Eggers et al. (McSweeneys) $30.00
N Plus 1 #18 Win 14 $13.95
Pank #9 $10.00
Parody vol 2 #2 $5.00
Brick #92 Win 14 A Literary Journal $15.00
Oxford American #83 $12.95
Feathertale Review #11 $10.00
Fence vol 28 Win 13 14 $13.00
White Review #9 $20.00
Little Star 2014 #5 $14.95
Aboutface by Veronica Siehl $10.00
Skin and Ink Feb 14 #149 $6.99

Books For and/or By Kids
826CHI Compendium vol 2 An Assemblage of Writings by the Students of 826CHI $12.00
Magic of Harrison by Leslie Perrine $10.00

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Quimby’s Zlumber Party 1/11/14 – 1/12/14

Published on December 10, 2013 0 Comments
Jan ’14
11
9:00 pm

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Hey zinesters and mini-comics artists! Come to our Zine Slumber Party (Zlumber Party, geddit? Gosh we’re clever.) This is the third year in a row we’re inviting you to come in and spend the night with us working on your zine, because we had so much fun doing it in the past. The store closes at 10pm on Sat the 11th and then you’re invited to spend the night here. So bring yer jammies and a sleeping bag, then leave in the morning with the zine you worked on. Interested in attending? Just so we can have a head count, be sure to shoot a regular ol’ e-mail our way at info(at)quimbys(dot)com, call us at 773-342-0910 or respond that you’re coming at our Facebook event posting here.

Sat, Jan 11th 9pm – Sun Jan 12th, 9am

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