Zine Club Chicago: Folding Pages, Unfolding Lives – A Collaborative Perzine Workshop led by Alex O’Keefe, May 11th

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May ’24
11
3:00 pm

Zine Club Chicago: Folding Pages, Unfolding Lives –
A Collaborative Perzine Workshop led by Alex O’Keefe
3 p.m. Saturday, May 11
Quimby’s Bookstore, 1854 W. North Ave.
Free!

This month, Zine Club Chicago is excited to welcome special guest Alex O’Keefe of DnA Artists as we each share personal narratives to form a group perzine!

Alex will walk participants through the process of creating a small auto-bio work (writing, drawing, collage — anything goes!) She’ll gather those stories to create an anthology zine, which everyone on the Zine Club Chicago Google group email list will receive for home printing after the event. A limited number of free print copies will also be made available at our shop (first-come, first-served).

Please join us for Zine Club Chicago: Folding Pages, Unfolding Lives – A Collaborative Perzine Workshop led by Alex O’Keefe, 3 p.m. Saturday, May 11 at Quimby’s Bookstore, 1854 W. North Ave. in Wicker Park. Free!

We’ll provide zinemaking supplies and snacks. Zine Club Chicago is a mask-supportive environment; we’ll have masks available if you’d like to wear one. Please note that seating is limited and available on a first-come, first-served basis.

Alex O’Keefe (she/her) is a Chicago-based artist, librarian, and storyteller. Her creative work often takes the form of comics, drawings, fiber arts, zines, and book arts. She is 1/2 of DnA Artists, who make bite-sized, humorous, and often informative zines, prints, and paper goods with an illustrative and comics aesthetic.

 

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: https://zineclubchicagoshoutouts.spread.name/

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

Flyer design by Anna Jo Beck, featuring an illustration by Alex O’Keefe.
Photo of Alex by Jamie Kelter Davis.

Facebook event link is here.

Image descriptions

A red-and-blue infographic flyer featuring an illustration by Alex O’Keefe of a person wearing glasses and holding a zine, with text that reads: “Zine Club Chicago: Folding Pages, Unfolding Lives – A Collaborative Perzine Workshop led by Alex O’Keefe,; In Person! Free!; 3 p.m. Saturday, May 11, 2024; Quimby’s Bookstore, 1854 W. North Ave. in Wicker Park”

A headshot of Chicago-based artist, librarian, and storyteller Alex O’Keefe.

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Zines

Qwerty Quarterly #4 Shift Into Spring edited by Molly Snyder and Tea Krulos $5

Rate of Decay #5 Tyvek $2

The Lowbrow Reader #13 $4

Take the Box: An Amy Winehouse Lyric Zine $7

Grachki Mar 2024 and April 2024 $5 each

I Make Coffee at Home Every Morning and Yell Out My Name Incorrectly Once It’s Brewed $10

Rain Summer 2023 $12

King Bourbon by Steve Gentry issues #1 & #2 $5 each

Greetings From the Diaspora by Aliyah NC issues #1 & #2 $10 each

Room Tone issues #1 & #2 $4 each

Gray Flag #4 by Chris Auman $4.50

Birds of April 9th, 2024 by Renee Herlinger $4

Stories for How to Live Without Solid Ground $5

Shut Mouth $5

Uses of Punk Rock Based on True Stories $2

Comics

Some Gay Comics $5

Maypoles and the Summer Solstice $4

Comics by David Mahler $3-$4: Food Magik, Deep Park #1-#3, Paulau and Nem & more.

Nightblade One Shot: A Man Lost in Time and Reality by Toilet Comix Cru, edited by Nathaniel JK $8

Comics by Claire Yen, $20 each: Wavellite: A Comics Anthology & To a Friend Whose Work Has Come to Triumph

Graphic Novels

Blessed Be: A Flowertown U.S.A. Adventure by Rick Altergott (Fantagraphics) $29.99

Freddy Reno Went Missing by Don M. Patterson $24

Politics & Revolution

The Origins of Totalitarianism by Hannah Arendt (New edition with a New Introduction by Anne Applebaum) $21.99

Freedom! The Story of the Black Panther Party by Jetta Grace Martin, Joshua Bloom, Waldo E. Martin Jr. $12.99

Witness: An Insider’s Narrative of the Carceral State by Lyle C. May (Haymarket) $19.95

Unbuild Walls: Why Immigrant Justice Needs Abolition by Silky Shah (Haymarket) $19.95

Body Autonomy: Decolonizing Sex Work and Drug Use by Justice Rivera $23.95

Outer Limits

Atlas of Unexpected Places: Haphazard Discoveries, Chance Places and Unimaginable Destinations by Travis Elborough $15

Lost Envoy: The Tarot Deck of Austin Osman Spare edited by Jonathan Allen $40

Fiction Books

If Youre a Girl – Selected Stories 1985-2023 by Ann Rower $17.95

Nighttime Kingdom by William J. O’Brien $15

Zelda Rising by George Hook $18.95

Bad Seed: Stories by Gabriel Carle (Feminist Press) $15.95

Through the Night Like a Snake: Latin American Horror Stories edited by Sarah Coolidge $16.95

Palestine +100: Stories from a Century After the Nakba edited by Basma Ghalayini $15.95

Young Mungo: A Novel by Douglas Stuart $18

Love in the Big City: A Novel by Sang Young Park $17

Druuuuuuugs

Mushroom Magic Dr. Sapphire McMullan-Fisher $19.95

Music Books

Dark Luminosity: Memoirs of a Geezer (Expanded Edition) by Jah Wobble $17.95

In the Jingle Jangle Jungle: Keeping Up with the Brian Jonestown Massacre by Joel Gion $30

Essay

Atlas of Unexpected Places: Haphazard Discoveries, Chance, Places and Unimaginable Destinations by Travis Elborough $15

Miseducation of a ’90s Baby by Khaholi Bailey $16.95

Magazines

Pink Slip #5 Root $15

Poetry, Chap Books & Lit Journals

Light Spun by Kwame Sound Daniels (Perennial Press) $16

Hemorrhaging Want and Water by Emily Marie Passos Duffy (Perennial Press) $18

Y Tu Tambien Extranas la Magia $2

Sin un Plan $2

Rock Pile Press #2 & #4 $8-$12

For the Young at Heart

The Cat Who Couldn’t Be Bothered by Jack Kurland $18.99

Zoo Menagerie: A Visit to the Zoo by Jo Fredell Higgins $13

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Zines

Used Records and Tapes #4 by Chris Auman, Mike Dixon & friends $7

Comp Book Companion (various issues) by Key Bridge It Daly $13

Experimental Exercise by Robert Zant $15

I Belong to Me (multiple issues) by Rachael Tyrell

I Know About the Beaver 2nd edition $6

Forever: A Photo Zine by Sunny $8

Hi-Fi Anxiety, various issues

In the Blink of an Eye #1 by Isaac Barnett (Gasoline Press) $15

Comics

Detours: Comics and Drawings by Eli Bishop $10

Comics by Kieran Teare-Thomas: Initiative, multiple issues of Campfire

I Love Women #3 $20

Rate of Decay #4 $1

Silent Command #5 by Mike Appelstein $5

Graphic Novels

So Long Sad Love by Mirion Malle (Drawn & Quarterly) $24.95

Gleem: A Selection of Spectacular Short Stories by Freddy Carrasco (Drawn & Quarterly) $22.95

Love and Rockets: The Sketchbooks by Gilbert Hernandez (Fantagraphics) $75

4/20 Dude

Cooking with Weed: Get Baked with 35 Recipes by Margie Stone $14.99

Art Books

Wonderflux: A Decade of e-flux Journal edited by Julieta Aranda & friends $24

Politics & Revolution Books

The Sexist Microphysics of Power: The Alcàsser Case and the Construction of Sexual Terror by Nerea Barjola (AK Press) $23

Abolition and Social Work: Possibilities, Paradoxes, and the Practice of Community Care edited by Mimi Kim, Cameron Rasmussen & Durrell M. Washington (Haymarket Books) $24.95

Advocate: A Graphic Memoir of Family, Community, and the Fight for Environmental Justice by Eddie Ahn $24.99

Essay Books

Juice: A History of Female Ejaculation by Stephanie Haerdle $19.95

Monsters: A Fan’s Dilemma by Claire Dederer $17

Chipped: Writing from a Skateboarders Lens by Jose Vadi $26

Fiction

Ghost Years: Stories by Barry Gifford $16.95

Stories From the Center of the World: New Middle East Fiction editd by Jordan Elgrably (City Lights Books) $17.95

The Missing by Ben Tanzer (7.13) $19.99

Music Books

Throbbing Gristle: An Endless Discontent by Ian Trowell $39.95

Electric Wizards: A Tapestry of Heavy Music, 1968 to the Present by JR Moores $18

The Monkees: Made in Hollywood by Tom Kemper $16

I Hate Old Music, Too: How Familiarity & Overuse Killed Our Favorite Music by Dave Thompson $27.95

Toxic Shock Records: Assassin of Mediocrity – A Story of Love, Loss, and Loud Music by Bill Sassenberger $20

A Really Strange and Wonderful Time: The Chapel Hill Music Scene: 1989-1999 by Tom Maxwell $30

A Book of Days by Patti Smith $20

Local Interest

Beer Hiking Chicago and Beyond: The Tastiest Way to Discover the Windy City by Jessica Sedgwick and Dan Ochwat $24.95

Chap Books

The San Francisco Neo-Futurists Chapbook #8 2023 Selected Plays From the Infinite Wrench $10

Lit Journals

Sinister Wisdom #132 $14

The First Line vol 26 #1 $6

Moss Piglet April 2024 edited by John Bloner Jr. $12

Just Keeping It Together, Barely

A Field Guide to the Apocalypse: A Mostly Serious Guide to Surviving Our Wild Times by Athena Aktipis $17.99

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Zines

Fixer Eraser #7 by Jonas $3

The Hungover Gourmet #12 by Dan Taylor $5

Malt Adult #28 by Sarah Schmidt $5

X Kool Kids #7 Culture $5

Cherry Bomb #2 by Emma and Mari $15

Zines by Hali Kleinfeld: issues of Outfit Archive, Truth Serum #2 & more.

Life Advice in a Tweet From @Katya $8

Comics

Huge shipment from kuš: mini kuš! New issues of š!

My Body Unspooling by Leo Fox $9.99

Woof by Maty G (Wiggle Bird Mailing Club) $6

Myrodemus #3 Awakening by Finn Walker $8

CCC1.1 Same but Different: A New Magazine of Comix Skool USA Notes $8

Bogue #2 Winter Issue by Ruby Carter $6

Graphic Novels

Black Phoenix Comics and Illustrations vol 3 by Rich Tommaso (Floating World Comics) $14.95

Atlas Comics Library vol 2 Venus Strange Stories of the Supernatural edited by Dr Michael J. Vassallo (Fantagraphics) $49.99

Food School by Jade Armstrong (Conundrum Press) $15

The 7th Voyage of Fabulous Furry Freak Brothers and Other Follies by Gilbert Shelton & Dave Sheridan (Fantagraphics) $22.99

kuš graphic novels: Good Night and Sweet Dreams by Teddy Goldenberg (kuš) $14, Slikmiks by Mikkel Sommer and Mekl (kuš) $18 & more!

Music Books

Audio Erotica : Hi-Fi Brochures 1950s–1980s edited by Jonny Trunk & friends (FUEL) $34.95

Politics & Revolution Books

Unite and Win: The Workplace Organizer’s Handbook by Emergency Workplace Organizing Committee (EWOC) & Daphna Thier (Haymarket Books) $10

Constructing Worlds Otherwise: Societies in Movement and Anticolonial Paths in Latin America by Raul Zibechi (AK Press) $18

Essay Books

Manifesto : Three Classic Essays on How to Change the World by Rosa Luxemburg, Karl Marx/Friedrich Engels, Ernesto Che Guevara (Seven Stories Press) $15.95

All We Have Is the Story: Selected Interviews 1973-2022 by James Kelman (PM Press) $24.95

Hello We Were Talking about Hudson edited by Steve Lafreniere (Soberscove Press) $24

DIY Books

Healing Plants: From Elizabeth Blackwell’s Curious Herbal, edited by Marta McDowell $12.95

Fiction Books

Rachel Condition by Nicholas Rombes $17.95

Snow Woman and Other Yokai Stories from Japan by Noboru Wada, illustrated by Haruna Wada $15.99

Magazines

Uppercase #61 $24

Chap Books

Ornamental Theology by P.T. Orbizol $5