Signed Book Raffle Purchase Opportunity For My Favorite Thing Is Monsters Book 2

Everybody and their moms asked us to get signed copies of My Favorite Things Is Monsters Book 2 by Emil Ferris since we were the bookseller at her event at the library on Wednesday. (Missed the event? Wanna watch it? It ruled. You can watch it here,) Guess what? We were only able to get 7 signed copies because the line of fans to get their books signed with Emil was immense.
So here’s what we’re doing — we are raffling off opportunities to buy a signed copy. If you win the raffle, we’ll hold the book for you for one week. You come in and buy it. Read: we are NOT raffling off a free copy of the book. We are raffling off us holding a signed copy of the book that you have to come in and buy.
These are the terms so read them:
-We will do the raffle on the New Stuff Saturdays Livestream 11:30am CT on Instagram (on Saturdays, duh), until all the signed books are sold, starting Saturday, June 15th.
-You get to enter once. Give someone else a chance, friends.
-This raffle is for in-store stuff only. You must buy the book in the store. Not mail order. You must come in to the store to pick it up. We’re not going to send this book in the mail. You cannot enter on the phone or via email. Make this easy for us, please.
-You have to come into the store and buy something to enter in the raffle where you will fill out a raffle form legibly.
-We are closed Tuesdays and Wednesdays, so don’t come then. We’ve been closed on those days for 4 years and it’s listed everywhere. Get over it!
-We will not answer questions about this on social media or phone calls. Do not DM us. Do not contact store employees directly through their personal social media or DMs or phone calls. BOUNDARIES, PEOPLE!
-If your week elapses before you buy it, that’s on you. That opportunity to buy that book gets put back into the raffle.
As Miko’s Italian Ice would say, “No crybabies.”
TL;DR
*IN-STORE only.
*Buy Something.
*Fill out a raffle form.
*Watch the Saturday Livestream.
*If your ticket gets called you get a week to buy the book.

New Stuff This Week

 

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Zines

So You Wanna Unionize #1 Starbucks Workers United Chicago Greektown Store 11719 issues #1-#3 by Lillie Elling and Russell Dahlman, $15 each

From Wonderlla Printed/Fiddler’s Green:
Fellow That Goes Alone: An Essay on Walking by Kenneth Grahame $7
Ring of Truth: The Casting and Use of the Magic Circle by Clint Marsh & illutrations by Alice Cao $12

Hot Girls Guides by Maya Holman, $10 each: #1 Hosting an Italian Dinner Party, #3 Hosting a High Tea Party

Drying Out at the Movies: Six Sober Essays by Max Robinson $8

Yarn Bomb #5 $15

Zines by Lennon McCrea:
Stacks #8 May 2024 $6.66
A Little More Punk Music #2 $3

Looking at Plants: A Plant Appreciation Zine by Jam $2

This Is Daft Punk by Cassidy Kulhanek $20

Graphic Novels

Weekly Bun Life vol 2 by Jessi Zabarsky $10

From Peow Press:
Last Chance to Find Duke by Shang Zhang $16
Internal Affairs Tense Anniversary by Pat Crotty, Michael Furler & Mel Tow $17

Comics

Comics by Kapka: A Furry Stoner Autobio Anthology of Sorts $5, Need a Light (with Ari) $20

Comics by Nick Forker:
Eyeland #13-#15 $7 each
Make Yourself a Hero $10
…and more!

Comics by Frankie Lyne:
Damn It I Want to Fuck My Own Cartoon $2
Mimi by Frankie Lyne $24.99

Music & Film Books

Depeche Mode’s 101 by Mary Valle (33 1/3 Series vol 183) $14.95

The Crow: The Life, Death, and Rebirth of a Classic Film (Revised) by Bridget Baiss $27.95

Essay(ish) Books

A Last Supper of Queer Apostles : Selected Essays by Pedro Lemebel, edited by Gwendolyn Harper $18

Fiction Books

Shy: A Novel by Max Porter $16

Perfume and Pain: A Novel by Anna Dorn $18.99

Dreamers Pursuit of a Self Referentiality by SR $16.50

Book of Distance by Terrin Winkel & friends $24.50

Consciousness Expansion

Psychedelic Revival: Toward a New Paradigm of Healing by Sean Lawlor (Sounds True) $21.99

Other stuff:
More stickers from Silver Sprocket!
Stickers & pins from Tender Ghost!

Quimby’s June Newsletter Available Now

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

Zine Club Chicago Online: Pride Edition, June 25th

Jun ’24
25
7:30 pm

Zine Club Chicago Online: Pride Edition
7:30 p.m. CT Tuesday, June 25 on Zoom
Free!

Happy Pride Month! In June, Zine Club Chicago will be celebrating zines created by LGBTQIA+ zinemakers, so bring your favorite self-published perzines, diary comics, radical treatises, how-to guides + more to discuss during the conversation! Queer zinemakers are especially encouraged to share their own work.

Grab your fave queer zines to share, BYOG(ushers) and join us on Zoom for Zine Club Chicago Online: Pride Edition at 7:30 p.m. CT Tuesday, June 25!

** 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 Monday, June 24 (the evening before our event). We’ll email you the Zoom link by 5 p.m. CT Tuesday, June 25.

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.

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

Facebook event invite link here.

P.S. Thanks to everybody who came out to the May Zine Club Chicago meeting at Quimby’s with Alex O’Keefe of DnA Artists! Download the zine that everybody contributed to so that you can print and assemble it HERE!

Image description: A rainbow version of the Zine Club Chicago logo, which features an illustration of a lightbulb with a zine inside of it.

New Stuff This Week

 

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Zines

Record Floating Star by Echo the Human $5

Earth Zine by Gordon Winiemko $6

Fetish #1 April 2024 by Tina Mead $3

Death Blow #2 Get Me $3

Catholic Boy Autumn $10

Comics

Smoke Signal #42 (Desert Island) $10

I Hope This Finds You #13 Diary Comics by Kevin Budnik $6

Return of the Space Cowboy by Lia Marshall $7

Graphic Novels

My Favorite Thing Is Monsters vol 2 by Emil Ferris (Fantagraphics) $44.99 – On sale date 5/28!

A Witch’s Guide to Burning by Aminder Dhaliwal (Drawn & Quarterly) $27.95

The Last Delivery by Evan Dahm (Iron Circus Comics) $15

Art Books

Futuria: Art of the Sci-Fi Age by Victionary $45

Politics & Revolution

An Abolitionist’s Handbook: 12 Steps to Changing Yourself and the World by Patrisse Cullors $20

Three Way Fight: Revolutionary Politics and Antifascism edited by Xtn Alexander & Matthew N. Lyons $24.95

Their Borders, Our World: Building New Solidarities With Palestine edited by Mahdi Sabbagh $24.95

The Jewish Anarchist Movement in America: A Historical Review and Personal Reminiscences by Joseph Cohen, Edited by Kenyon Zimmer (AK Press) $32

Music Books

Backstage and Beyond vol 2 45 Years of Modern Rock Chats and Rants by Jim Sullivan (Trouser Press) $25

Music in a Word vol 2 Fifty Years on a Rock and Roll Soapbox by Ira A. Robbins (Trouser Press) $25

Time Has Come Today: Rock and Roll Diaries 1967-2007 by Harold Bronson (Trouser Press) $30

Sweet, Wild and Vicious: Listening to Lou Reed and the Velvet Underground by Jim Higgins (Trouser Press) $20

Echoes: A Memoir Continued by Will Sergeant (Third Man Books) $21.95

Bowie Odyssey 74 by Simon Goddard (Omnibus Press) $25

Leonard Cohen: The Mystical Roots of Genius by Harry Freedman $18

Essay Books

Spoken Word: A Cultural History by Joshua Bennett $17

Pageboy: A Memoir by Elliot Page $18.99

Fiction

Sex Goblin by Lauren Cook $17.95

Books by Aug Stone $12-$20: Ballad of Buttery Cake Ass, Off License to Kill: A James Vagabond Adventure, Sporting Moustaches (illustrated by Allen Crawford)

Gone to the Wolves by John Wray $19

Witchy Shit

Divine Dirt: The Art of Using Dirt in Magic, Ritual & Spellcraft by Charity L. Bedell $19.99

Sacred Tears: A Witch’s Guide to Grief by Courtney Weber $18.99

Tarot Through the Witch’s Year: 33 Spreads for Spiritual Connection by Karen Krebser (Microcosm) $19.95

Magazines & Newspapers

County Highway #6 $8.50

Tape Op #161 $5.99

Tidal Magazine #18 $16

Other Stuff: Bans Off Our Bodies Stickers by Dearly Beloved Creations $6