2025 Chicagoland Indie Bookstore Day Challenge! April 26th

Apr
26
12:00 pm

On Saturday, April 26th Quimby’s will participate in celebrating Independent Bookstore Day with Chicago bookstores from all over the city!

One of the best ways to celebrate Independent Bookstore Day is the annual bookstore crawl (aka, the Chicagoland Indie Bookstore Day Challenge)! The crawl promises to be bigger and better than ever this year! Dozens of stores—both brand-new stores and old favorites will be participating.  (See the complete list at www.ChiLoveBooks.com.) And, yes, the bus tour will be BACK!

Again this year, the goals will be:
• 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!

Readers are encouraged to post a snapshot of themselves and their Independent Bookstore Day haul on social media with the hashtags #TeamIndie, #ChiLoveBooks, #IBDCHI25, plus the hashtags of each store they’ve visited.

Independent Bookstore Day is the last Saturday of April, and yet again, Chicagoland proves itself to be the dream destination for book lovers and readers of all ages! More than 50 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.

New Stuff This Week

 

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Zines

2 Angel Xoxo zines! $5 each: All Drafts #2, What Was it Like Growing Up in the Bay

Room For Rent by Bill Sassenberger (Fluke Publishing) $5

Cocktail Recipes for Those Who Like the Stories issues #1-#5 by Wil Martinez Petre $8 each

Qwerty Quarterly #7 $5

Healing Is the Best Revenge #5 Love Letters for Survivors by Karina Ebba Hagelin $11

Enlighten Me, You Nincompoop: The Misadventures of Trial and Error by C.M. Davassi (Happy Tapir Press) $5

Minor Inconveniences of Infidelities: Poems by Nicole Zwolinski $6

From The Word Distro: What I Watched When I Had COVID $3, Pencil of the Week #19 $5, Touring America Skylines the Limit featuring Billy McCall and August Personage $3, Soap Dish #2 a Zine About Soap and Stuff $2

Comics

Looking for the Cat issues #1-#5 by Matthew Thurber (Neoglyphic Media) $12-$15

Fructus Seminalis #1 by Dan Loeb and Maxim Mel $10

Blood Trucker #3 by Lauren Ramsey and Michael Ehrenreich $7

Hacienda #3 by Dave Ortega $10

Void Trust #1 The Universe’s Best Comics Anthology by Finn Walker and Danny Cooper $8

Graphic Novels

Life Drawing: A Love and Rockets Collection by Jaime Hernandez (Fantagraphics) $24.99

Raised By Ghosts by Briana Loewinsohn (Fantagraphics) $18.99

Tedward by Josh Pettinger (Fantagraphics) $24.99

Beat It, Rufus by Noah Van Sciver (Fantagraphics) $22.99

Baby Blue by Bim Eriksson (Fantagraphics) $29.99

Santos Sisters vol 1 by Greg and Fake (Fantagraphics) $24.99

Music & Film Books

I Like People That Can’t Sing: Paul Nelson Interviews Leonard Cohen & Lucinda Williams edited by Kevin Avery (Fantagraphics) $29.99

The Harder I Fight the More I Love You: A Memoir by Neko Case $30

Candy Darling: Dreamer, Icon, Superstar by Cynthia Carr $20

Getting Help

Love in a Fucked-Up World: How to Build Relationships, Hook Up, and Raise Hell Together by Dean Spade $19.99

Newspapers

County Highway vol 2 #5 March/April $8.50

Fiction

Forgotten Titles: The Problem of Eternity by Emma Wong $5

Lit Journals & Chap Books

Moss Piglet March 2025 $15

Sinister Wisdom #136 $16

chap books by PT Orbizol $5 each: Communal Education, Greysonic Codex

Live from the Monkey Show Poems by Samuel L. Rubinstein $7

No Stop November Poems by Jonathon Addington $5

Sexxxy

Elska #51 Buenos Aires Argentina $20

March Newsletter Out Now

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

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Zines & Zine-Related

One Skate Beyond #2 Indoor Skating Edition by Buster $4

From Stephen Poon, $6 each: Cincinnati Mushroom House & Pondering the Infinite: 2 Short Stories

From Sofa Melon, Melon Press: Numerology: A Easy Guide to the Age of Your Soul the Zine $8, Midnight Shift: A Spooky RPG $12, Knaffgata #1 The Missing Link $10 & more.

Mayhem in Miniature: Graphikos Tradition by Jim Blanchard (Waterhead Books) $6

For the Love of Ray Navarro by Ruben Esparza (Mattazine Society) $12

Trashy by Brenna Brash $10

THING: Issues #1-10 The Voice of Americas Black Queer Underground in the Early 1990s edited by Robert Ford, Trent Adkins, and Lawrence Warren (Primary Information) $35

Knight of Cups by Erica Dawn Lyle $5

Brick House by Adam Green (Wiggle Bird Mailing Club) $10

Comics

Duplicator Magazine $22

Sliced Timber #1 by Lumberjack Nick (Killer Pterri Comics) $9.99

Fever Dream #1 by Scott Gerard Ruhl $6

My Comic Final LOL $10

Satellite Sunset by Madeline Mouse $10

From Leo Covault: Early Gender Crushes #1 $6, Transition Hacks for Ye Old Mascs $10, The Harpist $22 & more.

Graphic Novels

Holy Lacrimony by Michael DeForge (Drawn & Quarterly) $24.95

Confessional by Paige Hender (Silver Sprocket) $29.99

Hourglass by Barbara Mazzi (Silver Sprocket) $15.99

You Must Take Part in Revolution: A Graphic Novel by Badiucao and Melissa Chan (Street Noise Books) $23.99

Politics & Revolution

ALGOFFSHORE: The Art of Automating Tax Evasion by Rybn.org $25

Art Books

Freeks: Astounding Aberrations and Mutations by JR Williams (Waterhead Books) $34.95

It’s Worse than I Feared Drawings by Tom Howes $24.99

Newspapers & Lit Journals

The Shadow #62-#64 $2 each

Lyrics as Poetry #5 A Journal of Songwriting and Prose $20

edited by Nabeela Washington: How We Make Fire $12, How the West Was Black $11

Music Books

There and Black Again by Don Letts (Omnibus Press) $20

Sex & Drugs & Rock ‘N’ Roll: The Life Of Ian Dury by Richard Balls (Omnibus Press) $20

Zine Club Chicago on Marz: Zinetronica Zinemaking Hangout, March 13th!

Mar
13
4:00 pm

Zine Club Chicago on Marz: Zinetronica Zinemaking Hangout

Life on Marz Community Club, 1950 N. Western Ave. in Logan Square/Bucktown

7 – 9 p.m. Thursday, March 13, 2025

Free!

In March, Zine Club Chicago is celebrating the music that moves us in collaboration with our friends at Life on Marz Community Club! Y’all are invited to help create a group zine on the theme Zinetronica.

This month’s theme is inspired by Marz Community Brewing’s Synth Fest 2025, a week of awesome bloops, bleeps, and beats taking place March 7-15 at both Life on Marz and the Marz Mothership.

Please join us for Zine Club Chicago on Marz: Zinetronica Zinemaking Hangout, 7-9 p.m. Thursday, March 13 at Life on Marz Community Club, 1950 N. Western Ave. in Logan Square/Bucktown. Free!

Zine Club Chicago will provide all the zinemaking supplies! Just bring your creativity. Life on Marz Community Club, our favorite locally owned taproom and café space, offers awesome alcoholic, CBD, and non-alcoholic beverages from Marz Brewery and more, plus some very fun snacks, for purchase. Conflict Bureau’s Tactical Acid Weapon will be providing sonic accoutrement during the evening, and we encourage y’all to stick around for some awesome music!

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 is the creative force behind our visuals.

More info:

Zine Club Chicago social media channels: @zineclubchicago

Facebook event link.

lifeonmarz.club

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A flyer featuring images of a vintage synthesizer and this text: “Zine Club Chicago on Marz: Zinetronica; 7-9 p.m. Thursday, March 13; Life on Marz Community Club, 1950 N. Western Ave; Free!; Info at quimbys.com”