Off-Site: Zine Club Chicago: Zinemaking Hangout on Marz, April 30th

Published on April 8, 2024 0 Comments
Apr ’24
30
7:00 pm

Zine Club Chicago: Zinemaking Hangout on Marz
Life on Marz Community Club, 1950 N. Western Ave. in Logan Square/Bucktown
7 – 9 p.m. Tuesday, April 30
Free!

Local zine friends, Zine Club Chicago is thrilled to announce that we’re launching a new in-person meetup for folks who want to get together and make zines! We’re teaming up with Life on Marz Community Club, a brewery taproom and café space that we love, for an evening of zinemaking and camaraderie every other month, beginning in April.

Please join us for our first Zine Club Chicago: Zinemaking Hangout on Marz, 7-9 p.m. Tuesday, April 30 at Life on Marz Community Club, 1950 N. Western Ave. in Logan Square/Bucktown. Free!

Zine Club Chicago will provide the zinemaking supplies! Just bring your creativity. Life on Marz Community Club offers awesome alcoholic, CBD, and non-alcoholic beverages from Marz Brewery and more, plus some very fun snacks, for purchase.

Life on Marz also hosts a Drink & Draw with resident comic illustrator Matt Salazar every Tuesday evening starting at 5 p.m., so feel free to arrive early or stay late to check that out, 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

Facebook event link is here.

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A flyer featuring a background image of the red surface of the planet Mars and this text: “Zine Club Chicago: Zinemaking Hangout on Marz; 7-9 p.m. Tuesday, April 30; Life on Marz Community Club, 1950 N. Western Ave; Free; Info: quimbys.com”

April Window Artist-In-Residence Bianca Xunise!

Published on April 7, 2024 0 Comments

Calling all punk city rats! Check out these amazing banners in our window by our April artist-in-residence, Chicago-based cartoonist Bianca Xunise! We could not love them more! Bianca will be here to celebrate the release of their book Punk Rock Karaoke on Saturday, April 27th at 3:30pm when they’ll be in in conversation by director, producer and author Jessica Hopper and on Independent Bookstore Day nonetheless!



Bianca Xunise’s work primarily focuses on the plight, joy, and daily struggles of misfits within the black community. In 2017 Xunise earned an Ignatz for Promising New Talent for their comic Say Her Name, an autobiographical story of police brutality and social justice. In 2020 Xunise earned their second Ignatz for their contribution to Be Gay, Do Comics published by IDW. Xunise has collaborated with Vogue, The Washington Post, The Nib, and Believer Magazine. They are also a contributor to the book How We Fight Supremacy: A Field Guide to Black Resistance along with Ta-Nehisi Coates, Tarana Burk, and Harry Belafonte. Bianca became the first nationally syndicated non-binary cartoonist when they joined the comic strip Six Chix in 2020 as their first black creator. More info at https://linktr.ee/biancaxunise

Poster for event by Casoline Cash.

New Stuff This Week

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Zines

In Loving Memory of Spring Hill Mall October 1st, 1980-March 22nd, 2024 by Bee Ebben $2

Zip Codes by Jason Valenzuela $10

Zines by Juelule, $1 each: Vagabunda y Bandolera #3 It’s Not Your Room That’s a Prison It’s Yourself, Vagabunda y Bandolera #2 and If You Missed a Day There Was Always the Next

Ars Moriendi by Joe Donlevy $6

Mounds by Andrew Conti $10

Zines from Happy Tapir Press, $5 each: No Fairy Queen: A Coloring Poem by GM Palmer, Beasts: Poetry and Prose by Kate O’Brien Wooddell

Sunflowers by Keezy Young (Silver Sprocket) $7.99

Comics

Frogs and Their Friends by Oona Taper $5

Beefy Mag #1 by Finn $12

San Expedito by Raul Higuera (Silver Sprocket) $14.99

Everything Sucks Noahs Millions by Michael Sweater (Silver Sprocket) $7.99

Nose Bleed #1 by Derick Jones $10

Desert Rats #1 by Nick Bunch $10

New titles from Davidt Dunlop: Small $1, Baphometta Coincidental Fish $6.40, Crumpled: A Self Anthology Comic Full of Bits and Bobs $8

Graphic Novels

Barking by Lucy Sullivan (Avery Hill) $22.99

A Brief History of Feminism by Patu & Antje Schrupp (MIT Press) $16.95

Winnie the Pooh by AA Milne & Travis Dandro (Drawn & Quarterly) $29.95

Pure Trance by Junko Mizuno (Last Gasp) $19.95

Won’t Back Down: An Anthology of Pro-Choice Comics by Trina Robbins (Last Gasp) $25

Influenca by Jade LFT Peters (Silver Sprocket) $16.99

Adversary by Blue Delliquanti (Silver Sprocket) $15.99

Viscera Objectica by Yugo Limbo (Silver Sprocket) $14.99

When I Arrived at the Castle by Emily Carroll (Silver Sprocket) $16.99

Mayhem & Outer Limits Books

Divination: Elements of Wisdom by Jewels Rocka $8.95

Essay Books

Theres Always This Year: On Basketball and Ascension by Hanif Abdurraqib $32

Secret Life vol 2 1925-1940 by Salvador Dali (Deicide Press) $19.95

Film Books

Naked Theater and Uncensored Horror: A Memoir by Stuart Gordon (Fab Press) $27.95

Fiction

I Love You So Much It’s Killing Us Both: A Novel by Mariah Stovall $28

Books from House of Vlad Productions, $15.95 each: Violent Candy Stories by Tex Gresham, Farsickness a Novel by Joshua Mohr, People Scare Me Poems by Cash Compson, Hobbies You Enjoy a Novelty by Brian Alan Ellis & more.

Magazines

Tape Op #160 $5.99

RFD #197 $11.95

Lit Journals & Poetry

Overtime Hour 67 the Line Keeps Turning by Thomas Nicholson $2

Fruitless: A Poetic Story by Daniel, to music by Ogi, with illustrations by Tanate $15

After Hours #47 $12

McSweeney’s #73 Manifesto: A Collection of Manifestos $28

79 Nonets by Caleb Bouchard (Suburban Drunk Press) $8

Ant Dodger: Poems by Bill Knott and Drawings by Dash Shaw $2

Books from selva oscura press $15-$18 each: Daykeeping by Rachel Blau DuPlessis, Shekhinah Speaks by Joy Ladin, Mood Indigo by Jeanne Heuving & more.

Chicagoland Bookstore Crawl, Independent Bookstore Day, April 27th

Published on March 31, 2024 0 Comments
Apr ’24
27
12:00 pm

Independent Bookstore Day – Saturday, April 27, 2024

Quimby’s is celebrating Independent Bookstore Day this year in 2 great ways! We’re a stop on the annual IBD Chicagoland Bookstore Crawl, and we’re also featuring an in-store event with Bianca Xunise in discussion with Jessica Hopper to celebrate the release of PUNK ROCK KARAOKE.

About the 2024 Chicagoland Bookstore Crawl

Yet again, Chicagoland proves itself to be the dream destination for book lovers and readers of all ages! More than 40 independent bookstores in the greater Chicago area—from Lake Forest to Beverly, and Naperville to the Loop—are collaborating on our annual Chicagoland Bookstore Crawl, which encourages book lovers to indulge in bookstore tourism by visiting 10 or more stores in a single day.

The annual challenge is being held again on Independent Bookstore Day (IBD), which is a one-day national party celebrating indie book stores on the last Saturday in April. Each store creates its own unique events—including guest authors, special kids’ story times, readings, contests, giveaways, and special sales.

How to Participate…
Select your first bookstore and receive a passport and your first stamp.

Now check out the map—which lists all the participating stores—and start planning your route!

Additional bookstores you visit throughout the day will provide you with a stamp with no purchase required! (However, showing them some love today, too, would of course be a very cool thing to do.)

And to remind you of the goals:

• Visit TEN stores in one day and get 10% off at all participating bookstores for an ENTIRE YEAR!

• Visit FIFTEEN stores in one day and get 15% off at all participating bookstores for an ENTIRE YEAR!

After visiting 10 or 15 participating bookstores, on your last bookstore visit show your passport and receive a limited edition pin!

Readers are encouraged to post a snapshot of themselves and their Independent Bookstore Day haul on social media with the hashtag #TEAMINDIE and #ChiLoveBooks.

See chilovebooks.com for more info about IBD in Chicago, including info about tickets for 3 bus routes to different stores.

Stay posted for more #IBD24 surprises!

 

New Stuff This Week

Published on March 30, 2024 0 Comments

 

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Zines

On a Stroll with Dan Gleason $3

Concessions: A Break Up Zine by Tin Diaz Rodriguez $2

Past Present #4 $15

Stacks #7 by Lennon McCrea $6.66

Wild Payphones of North America by P. Hofstad, N. Hardy and G. Lovera $9

The Anarchist Review of Books #7 $6

Comics

Scorpio Venus Rising #1 by Corinne Halbert $8

The Plot #6 Home by Neil Brideau (Radiator) $8

Bubbles #19 An Independent Fanzine About Comics and Manga editd by Brian Baynes $8

Dear You Written and Drawn by Giles Crawford $10

Rimki Comix #1 Land of the Dead by Rimki $4

Cat Gang Comix #1 by Ellen Chao $12

Graphic Novels

Light It Shoot It by Graham Chaffee (Fantagraphics) $24.99

Merriment by Joe Steinhardt and Marissa Paternoster (Don Giovanni Records) $24.95

Isle of Elsi vol 2 the Egalliv Examiner by Alec Longstreth (Phase 7 Comics) $24.95

Igaguri: Young Judo Master by Fukui Eiichi (Bubbles Publication) $21.99

Art Books

Vivienne Westwood: The Story Behind the Style, Unofficial and Unauthorised by Jessica Bumpus $19.99

FOLK PORN: Anonymous 1940s Sex Drawings by Anonymous edited by Alison M. Gingeras $20

Politics & Revolution Books

City Is Up for Grabs: How Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot Led and Lost a City in Crisis by Gregory Royal Pratt $28.99

How to Abolish Prisons: Lessons From the Movement Against Imprisonment by Rachel Herzing and Justin Piche (Haymarket) $18.95

The Black Antifascist Tradition: Fighting Back From Anti-Lynching to Abolition by Jeanelle K. Hope & Bill V. Mullen (Haymarket) $24.95

Music, Film & TV Books

Neue Deutsche Welle (33 1/3 Genre Series) by Claudia Lonkin $19.95

Math Rock (33 1/3 Genre Series) by Jeff Gomez $19.95

Cinema Speculation by Quentin Tarantino $21

Companions of Doctor Who edited by David Bushman and Ken Deep $19.99

Weird Music That Goes on Forever: A Punk’s Guide to Loving Jazz by Bob Suren, illustrated by Brian Walsby (Microcosm) $16.99

Live: Why We Go Out by Robert Elms (Unbound) $26.95

Mayhem & Outer Limits

Queens of the Underworld: A Journey into the Lives of Female Crooks by Caitlin Davies $21.99

Encyclopedia of Rootical Folklore: Plant Tales From Africa and the Diaspora by Natty Mark Samuels (Scorched Earth Press) $24.95

Fiction

Stitches: Short Stories by Hirokatsu Kihara, art by Junji Ito $18

Rainbow Black: A Novel by Maggie Thrash $18.99

The Snow Ghost and Other Tales: Classic Japanese Ghost Stories edited by Lafcadio Hearn, Yei Theodora Ozaki and Richard Gordon Smith $29.99

More books in The British Library series:
Flaw In the Crystal and Other Uncanny Stories edited by May Sinclair $16.99
Holy Ghosts: Classic Tales of the Ecclesiastical Uncanny edited by Fiona Snailham $16.99
Penny Bloods Gothic Tales of Dangerous Women edited by Nicole C. Dittmer $24.99

Bikes, the Universe, and Everything: Feminist, Fantastical Tales of Bikes and Books by Elly Blue (Microcosm) $12.95

Bloodline: A Novel by Jenn Alexander $18.95

DIY Books

Unfuck Your Business Workbook: Using Math and Brain Science to Run a Successful Business by Joe Biel and Dr. Faith G. Harper (Microcosm) $14.99

Essay Books

No Judgment: Essays by Lauren Oyler $28.99

Like Love: Essays and Conversations by Maggie Nelson $32

Christian Atheism: How to Be a Real Materialist by Slavoj Zizek $19.95

Chap Books

Micropoetry for Microplanets by Brian U Garrison and Gowri Savoor $6