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| 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.
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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
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Zines
More zines by angel xoxo, $5 each: All Drafts, Vacation #8, Angelic Confessions issues #1 + #2
Bookshelf Voyeur #6 Books of Lists – Lists of Books Books – With Lists by LJ Williams $10
new zines from Jolie Ruin $2-$3: Darling Pet Monkey #1, The Escapist Artist #72, Slutcake #17
New stuff by Karina Hagelin, various prices: Surviving Out of Pure Spite, Healing Is the Best Revenge (multiple issues), Style Spell Book & more.
I-zimbra #3.2 Shoegaze History $5
Weirdo Origins #0 $8
Shake On It by J. Daniel Hud and Kevin Fisher $18
My Fate Is Mine – I Can Feel It by Insidious $10
Chutki #1 $25
So Much of Being Queer Is Listening $3
Zines by Neon Perspective $4 each: The World Is Ending and I’m Stuck at Work, As Seen on TV, Dione Resort Galactic Fun Awaits
Comics
Peep #1 edited by Sammy Harkham and and Steven Weissman (Secret Headquarters) $25
Lucky Cap Scouts by O. Stevens (Silver Sprocket) $9.99
Skin Deep by Flo Woolley (Silver Sprocket) $9.99
Freaky #10 Hang Ten $5
Tales From Cock and Balls Art Supply by VK $7
Today I Wore a Wool Sweater by Isabel Steffes $15
Pouring Rats by Myleigh Modun $8
Comics by Lauren Scanlon (various prices): Wisconsin Trust Fall and Other Stories, Dragons, Truth and Precedent & more.
St Monday by Esther McManus $5
Maintenance by Cryptozoology (Wiggle Bird Mailing Club) $6
Scramble Variety Zine #1 by Sebastian Jordan $6
Aviundrum: A Bird Problem issues #1 + #2 by Nagomu Kikuchi $5 each
Misery Mall by Chance T $3.50
Love Bites by Nasa Espinoza $10
Silver and Gold by Sam Qian $4
Comics by Emily Kardamis, various prices: Cool Teen Mothman issues #1 + #2, About: Selections From 2021-2022 Diary Comics
Moon by A OK (DnA Artists) $10
Graphic Novels
Mark Twain’s War Prayer, illustrated by Seymour Chwast (Fantagraphics) $22.99
Self-Esteem and the End of the World by Luke Healy $24.95
Music Books
Rebel Girl: My Life as a Feminist Punk by Kathleen Hanna $29.99
Chuco Punk: Sonic Insurgency in El Paso by Tara López $21.95
Sound Of The Machine: My Life in Kraftwerk and Beyond by Karl Bartos $25
Rise of a Killah: My Life in the Wu-Tang by Ghostface Killah $35
Designed for Success: Better Living and Self-Improvement with Midcentury Instructional Records by Janet Borgerson and Jonathan Schroeder $39.95
Art Books
Another Head $12
Essay(ish) Books
Fancy Bear Goes Phishing: The Dark History of the Information Age, in Five Extraordinary Hacks by Scott J. Shapiro $20
Drag: The Complete Story by Simon Doonan $19.99
The Language of the Night: Essays on Writing, Science Fiction, and Fantasy by Ursula K. Le Guin $18
Magazines
Hellebore #11 A Summoning of Ancient Terrors: The Animal Issue $16.50
Border Crossings #164 Art and Poetics $15
Humphrey Magazine – A Magazine of Decadent Whimsy #2 Luxury $20
Geez #72 God in the Machine $15
Fiction
Dykette: A Novel by Jenny Fran Davis $18.99 – Now in soft cover.
The Only One Left by Riley Sager $18
Harold: A Novel by Steven Wright $17.99
Time Shelter: A Novel by Georgi Gospodinov $17.99
Mood Swings: A Novel by Frankie Barnet $26
Lit Journals
Moss Piglet May 2024 Que Viva Mexico $12
How-To
How to Read Tarot Wrong: Putting the Can’t in Arcana: An Interpretation Book by Alex Kingsley $9
For Your Inner Seal
Sealf-Care for Everyone by Wang xx $12.95
Plus: Cards by Countess of Collage $7, Vintage Tattoo Tarot by Alyssa Wilson $24.99
| Jun ’24 |
| 9 |
| 1:00 pm |
Zine Club Chicago is thrilled to announce the launch of a brand-new South Side Zine Library! This free community resource, stocked with zines of all kinds, will be permanently housed in the Community Room at the Richard J. Daley branch of the Chicago Public Library in Bridgeport.
To celebrate, Zine Club Chicago is pairing up with the Blue Ribbon Glee Club to host a launch party featuring the intermittent reading and performance series Three Songs, plus an open mic and zinemaking!
All are invited to the Zine Club Chicago South Side Zine Library Launch Party featuring Three Songs with the Blue Ribbon Glee Club on Sunday, June 9 at the Richard J. Daley branch of the Chicago Public Library, 3400 S. Halsted St. in Bridgeport. Zinemaking begins at 1 p.m.; the Three Songs readings and performance will start at 2 p.m. Free!
For the Three Songs performance, a trio of featured readers will each share a story about one of the songs in the BRGC punk a capella repertoire, and then the group will sing it. The readers are:
- Nikki Roberts (Locals Only zine)
- Liz Olney (RadicleArts + BRGC member)
- Cynthia E. Hanifin (Pulaski at Night zine + South Side Zine Library founder)
- YOU! We’ll be hosting an open mic for anyone in the community who wants to tell their own music-related story.
More info at quimbys.com and on the Zine Club Chicago socials: @zineclubchicago
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 the monthly flyers and created the logo, and she also created the visuals for the South Side Zine Library.
Zine Club Chicago would like to thank the South Side Zine Library sponsors: The Richard J. Daley branch of the Chicago Public Library + branch manager Jeremy Kitchen, Quimby’s Bookstore, Lucinda J. Williams, and Johnny Misfit.
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A flyer with an image of the Chicago skyline viewed from Palmisano Park in Bridgeport and this text: “Zine Club Chicago South Side Zine Library Launch Party! Featuring Three Songs with Blue Ribbon Glee Club; Readings by Nikki Roberts, Liz Olney, and Cynthia E. Hanifin; Punk a capella performance, open mic + zinemaking!: 1-4 p.m. Sunday, June 9; Richard J. Daley Branch, Chicago Public Library in Bridgeport; 3400 S. Halsted St.; More info: quimbys.com; Instagram: @zineclubchicago; chipublib.org
