New Stuff This Week

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Zines

zines by Johnnie B. Baker: DC Books to Prisons #3 Read Expand Your Mind $5, Pocket Histories #5-#8 $2 each

X Kool Kids #1-#4 $5 each

various zines by Vahnaree: Grow Up, Mediums, Aisle X

zines by Liz Groeschen: Singing Room $15, Foreigner Rice #1 & #2 $5 each, And Mom #1 $7

Moss Piglet Jun 2023 $12

Guided Journal Climate Change Anxiety by Miette Crumb $12

Zines & comics by Kieran Teare-Thomas: Friends of Dorothy, Where You Belong, Remarkable and more.

Comics

What’s the Meaning of Life, Eggy Toad? by Aim Ren Beland $10 + new stickers

Cram #2 Casual Conversations for Brain Fog Drunks by Caroline Cash and friends $24

Comics by Cameron Hatheway, $5 each: Ultrafugu vs Fugamera, Fugu Comix #2, Lord Buttonchops #1 Squire Inquire for Hire

Comics from Wiggle Bird Mailing Club, $6 each: Garden Journal by Rowan Fridley, Catgirl Circus Fantasy by Flavushh

Various issues and books in Karl Christian Krumpholz’s Lighthouse In the City Series

Trickfilm #3 by Charles Brubaker $5

Weak Magic #2 by Will Schreitz $10

Jones Crusher Stamps Out Da Freakz Ego Trip Mini Comix #1 by Zaponator $3

Gost vol 1 June 23 by Ophelia $5

Graphic Novels

Blab! Volume 1 edited by Monte Beauchamp (Dark Horse) $19.99

Six Mini Comics by M.S. Harkness $20

Moon Boots: The Chronicles of a Country Crooner by Lorenz Peter (Conundrum) $17

Adherent by Chris W. Kim $20

Kettle Harbour by Kyle Vingoe Cram (Conundrum) $25

Anaïs Nin: A Sea of Lies by Léonie Bischoff (Fantagraphics) $29.99

Coin Op #9 The Long Cool Eye: Five Comic Stories by Peter & Maria Hoey $19.95

My Body Our Rights SC World War 3 Illustrated #53 (AK Press) $15

Art Books

I Can Be Myself When Everyone I Know Is Dead: The Delightfully Dreadful Art of Kamila Mlynarczyk $34.95

2am Eternal: A Decade of Queer Nightlife Posters and Comics 2012-2022 by Eric Kostiuk Williams (Secret Acres) $21.95

Music Books

Stewdio Box Set: The Naphic Grovel Artrilogy of Chuck D (Akashic) $59.95

Corporate Rock Sucks: The Rise and Fall of SST Records by Jim Ruland $19.99

Inner Ear of Don Zientara: A Half Century of Recording In One of America’s Most Innovative Studios Through the Voices of Musicians composed by Antonia Tricarico (Akashic) $35

Black Vinyl White Powder: The Real Story of the British Music Industry by Simon Napier-Bell (Unbound) $19.95

Paint My Name In Black and Gold: The Rise of the Sisters of Mercy by Mark Andrews (Unbound) $19.95

Politics, Revolution & Essay Books

Not Too Late: Changing the Climate Story from Despair to Possibility edited by Rebecca Solnit, Thelma Young & Lutunatabua (Haymarket) $16.95

Why or How a Peasant Got Into the Land of Anarchy by Abba & Wolf Gordin $15

Recovering Bookchin: Social Ecology and the Crises of Our Time by Andy Price $21

Revolutionary Affinities: Toward a Marxist Anarchist Solidarity by Michael Lowy and Olivier Besancenot (PM Press) $18.95

Decolonize Conservation: Global Voices for Indigenous Self-Determination, Land, and a World in Common edited by Ashley Dawson, Fiore Longo and Survival International $22

Angela Davis: An Autobiography by Angela Davis (Haymarket) $22.95

Illegitimate Authority: Facing the Challenges of Our Time by Noam Chomsky & C.J. Polychroniou (Haymarket) $19.95

Journal of a Black Queer Nurse by Britney Daniels $16.95

Grifters, Frauds, and Crooks: True Stories of American Corruption by Richard Estep $22.95

Tomorrow, Tomorrow, Insha Allah: How The Journey Back To My Roots Became An Adventurous Escape From the Sahara by Sara Cheikh $22.95

The Kevin Powell Reader: Essential Writings and Conversations by Kevin Powell (Akasic) $32.95

Essay Sorta, Fiction Kinda

Cradle of the Deep: The Grand Adventures of Joan Lowell That Were Not Quite True by Joan Lowell (Feral House) $22.95

Fiction

Last Vanishing Man by Matthew Cheney (Third Man Books) $19.95

Happy Stories, Mostly by Norman Erikson Pasaribu (Feminist Press) $16.95

A Creature Wanting Form: Fictions by Luke O’Neil (OR Books) $19.95

The Wishing Pool and Other Stories by Tananarive Due $29.95

JesusDevil: The Parables by Alexis De Veaux (AK Press) $16

How To

How to Train Your Skateboard by Jack Francis, illustrated by Ewa Zak $16.95

Chap Books

Trouble on the Escarpment by Andre F. Peltier $10.99

For the Young at Heart

How Many Birds by Marcos Farina $12

Newspapers

The Internationalist #69-#70 $1

Plus:
More Stickers & Patches from Arcane Bullshit (and restocks)!

Quimby’s June Newsletter Available Now

Published on June 3, 2023 0 Comments

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New Stuff This Week

Published on June 2, 2023 0 Comments

 

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Zines

Molotov High Heels: Radical Whore Reflectionsby Brit Schulte $5

Photo zines by Sam Paakkonen, $10 each: Santiago Chile, Amsterdam the Netherlands, Tokyo Japan

Unofficial 2P Jargons KOR ENG by Emwul Honomo $20

Backbar: Twenty One Drawings of Bottles 2015-2023 by Dmitry Samarov $6

What to Expect When Youre Expecting Bangs $8

Keying Into Ambient Music: Attending to Soundscapes as Phenomenological Practice by Elk Paauw $5

Yarn Heart $7

Heart Is Sometimes Grey $10

Punks of the Great Lakes: Species Not Welcome In My Homes by Jaxanna Fink $5

How to Break the Rules $8

Comics & zines by Dana Amundsen, DnA Artists & friends, various prices: Barista Cat, What Is RSS: A Beginners Guide, What Is the Open Web: A Collaborative Zine, Cat Butts & more.

Zines, stickers & comics by Jude Bettridge, various prices: Dumpster Puppet Episode #1, How to Create Amazing Art in 3 Steps of Less, Dumpster Puppet Episode #1, Gravy and Jude: the Origin Story

More Moomin Arcana #2 by Erin Watson  $5

Gross Girls Club Coloring Book by Siobhan Gallagher  $12

Comics & Minis

Intertidal by Ellie Gerken $12

Mini-comics by Ty Ryan Schlossman, $5 each: Autumn Means, Carl Carly Horse

Comics by Andy Leuenberger: Dead Time Data various issues $8 each

Charlie Cobwebs by John F. Malta $15

Ballyhoo #1 A Twilight Hours Mystery by Teddie Bernard $24.99

Winnie Bird various issues, by by Brian Boss $4 each

Graphic Novels

Museum of Mistakes: The Definitive Fart Party Collection by Julia Wertz (Uncivilized) $29.95

Politics & Revolution Books

Let This Radicalize You by Kelly Hayes & Mariame Kaba (Haymarket) $17.95

Radical Futurisms. Ecologies of Collapse, Chronopolitics, and Justice-to-Come. by T. J. Demos $24.95

Art Books

Street Art By Women: 50 Plus Essential Contemporary Artists by Diego Lopez $39.95

Essays

Daddy Boy by Emerson Whitney (McSweeneys) $26

Say Anarcha: A Young Woman, a Devious Surgeon, and the Harrowing Birth of Modern Women’s Health by J.C. Hallman $29.99

Fiction

Swee by Jenna Citrus $11.11

Open Throat: A Novel by Henry Hoke $25

Cult Classic: A Novel by Sloane Crosley $18

The Complete Fear of Kathy Acker by Jack Skelley (Semiotext[e]) $15.95

Home at Last by Manuel Chavarria and Eleanore Studer $15

Sexxxy

Ripe Tales of Hunger and Desire by Manuel Chavarria $20

Elska #42 Almaty Kazakhstan $20

Magazines

Double Blind issues #7 & #8 $15 each

Stock #1 the Next Generation the Inaugural Issue 2023 $7

Updated Consignment Terms FAQ

Published on June 1, 2023 0 Comments

We love our consignors! Without you, we wouldn’t be the store we are. To make consignment a sustainable practice for Quimby’s, we have to update our policies. Not to worry. You’ll still get your 60% of your retail price when you sell your stuff here. The new consignment form that we are asking all of our consignors, both new and current consignors, to sign is here: Consignment Form 2023. We are asking for your patience with us while we adjust to an era in which more people than ever before are self-publishing and consigning zines, mini-comics, and books. Here are some answers to questions that we know you’ll be asking about consigning here at Quimby’s and our new policies:

Why oh why is Quimby’s changing their consignment policies?

We’re in the process of the biggest update to our systems in our 32-year store history. This is a major, ongoing undertaking for our tiny staff, and involves, among many other complex and time-consuming tasks, a physical inventory of every single one of the tens of thousands of items in our shop. Yep, it’s a huge project.

Oh, and those many thousands of consignment items? That number gets bigger every single day, as we receive the highest volume of zines, comics, and books for consignment in our history. Y’all are creative and prolific, and we love it! But we now receive so many consignment items on a daily basis that it’s difficult for us to keep up with them all without making some changes to how we work with consignors.

If you’ve ever wondered why more shops don’t offer consignment as an option, that’s because the consignment process requires a lot of work on the part of a shop’s staff. We’re committed to continuing to offer consignment so all of you wonderful creators out there can sell your work here. We can only do that, though, by updating our consignment policies.

We deeply value our consignors and love having your work in our shop! We appreciate your ongoing patience as we navigate these unprecedented changes for our business and your support for our new policies.

I’ve been consigning here for a long time/I used to be able to check in whenever I wanted to/I can see that my consignment item is sold out/I’m the second cousin twice removed of a staff member/etc. That new every-four-months check-in rule doesn’t really apply to ME, right?!

Yes, yes it does. We are not making exceptions to any of our consignment terms for any consignor, because it would not be fair to do that. We know that, for some folks, this will be a change in their consignment routine. We appreciate your willingness to follow our new policies! And if you don’t want to follow all of our new policies, we will return your consignment items to you and permanently close your consignment account, no problem.

I came all the way over to the shop on the cursed Damen bus. Can’t you just pull up my consignment file on your fancy desktop computing device real quick and tell me on the spot how much you owe me and how many restocks you can take?

No, we can’t. That wouldn’t be fair the the consignors who are following our policies regarding email-only check-ins. Also, checking on a consignor’s stock and sales is a much more complicated process than just pulling up a file on the computer. (Buy us a drink and we’ll walk you through the entire laborious process sometime.) When our shop is open, it’s difficult for us to conduct consignment checks and also run the shop and assist customers, which is a major reason why we’ve adopted the email-only policy.

Why isn’t my consignment item up on your website? 

We manually update our web shop, and don’t have the staffing to list every consignment item we receive on quimbys.com. Only about 10 percent of the items in our shop are put up on our site. 

I dropped off/mailed in my consignment items a week ago. Why isn’t it up on the New wall yet?

Because we are humans, not androids. Sometimes it takes a while for us to process the high volume of items we receive for consignment every single day.

Can you send me a photo of my consignment items in your shop?

Nope. We don’t have a shop cell phone, nor do we have the time to take photos to send to you. Feel free to take your own photos of your stuff in the shop or send in a friend to do it for you.

I don’t like these new policies. I don’t think they should apply to me, a special and entitled person. And I’m going to harass your staff until you do what I want.

Any harassment of our staff for any reason WILL NOT BE TOLERATED. EVER. If you act like a jerk*, we will permanently close your consignment account immediately. We also may ban you from our shop.

* Acting like a jerk includes, but is not limited to: Repeatedly emailing/calling/DMing/showing up at our shop to ask about your consignment items after we have already replied once to your question and/or have already let you know once that you are in the check-in queue; contacting any of our staff members personally (via their social media accounts or any other means) to ask about your consignment items; using hateful language, raising your voice, or making threats when you communicate with us; and any other behavior that is unprofessional, rude, or hurtful. Pull any of this shit and you will no longer be welcome here.

Off-Site Event: Zine Camp 2023 presented by Zine Club Chicago, July 9th!

Published on May 31, 2023 0 Comments
Jul ’23
9
2:00 pm

OFF-SITE EVENT!

Zine Camp 2023 presented by Zine Club Chicago
2 p.m. – 6:30 p.m.
Sunday, July 9, 2023
Picnic Grove 5 at Dan Ryan Woods
Free!

Join Zine Club Chicago for an in-person outdoor hangout for adults who love zines!

We had such a blast at Zine Camp last year that we’re bringing it back and packing in even more summer fun. Newbies and Zine Club Chicago regulars alike are welcome at Zine Camp 2023, set for 2 p.m.-6:30 p.m. Sunday, July 9 in Picnic Grove 5 at Dan Ryan Woods on Chicago’s Southwest Side. Free!

Camp activities include zinemaking, zine trading, and socializing with fellow self-publishing enthusiasts; a crowd-sourced, collaborative, zine-focused Complaint Chorus by Ayun Halliday: a Zinemaking Workshop by Jude R. Bettridge; and SO. MANY. SNACKS!

We’ll also be hosting a pen pal station so you can strike up a correspondence with one of our out-of-town Zine Club Chicago friends! (Can’t make it to Zine Camp and want a pen pal? Sign up here: tiny.cc/ZineCamp2023PenPals)

Feel free to drop in anytime between 2-6:30 p.m. and stay for as long as you like. Dan Ryan Woods is a Cook County Forest Preserve; our campsite at Picnic Grove 5 will be located off Western Avenue near 84th St.

Need a map, directions on how to get there via public transit or car, and accessibility information? You can find all the details about Zine Camp 2023 (including where we’re going for the afterparty!) at zine.camp. Facebook event here.

Zine Camp is made possible by the generous support of zinemaker and all-around awesome person Lucinda J. Williams. Check out her Bookshelf Voyeur zine series here at our shop and online at quimbys.com!

Shoutout to our Zine Camp Counselors: Aim Beland, Michael Verdi, Liz Mason, Cynthia E. Hanifin, Ayun Halliday, and Jude R. Bettridge

Thank you to Aim Beland for designing the Zine Camp 2023 poster!

Image description: A pink flyer with the illustration of a green tent made out of a stitchbound zine and a tree branch, with this text: Zine Camp 2023; a (free) meetup for adults who love zines; Brought to you by Zine Club Chicago; 2 p.m. to 6:30 p.m. July 9th; Dan Ryan Woods Shelter #5 @ Western x 84th; for more info, visit zine.camp