Zine Club Chicago Online: Zine Heroes Edition, Aug 22nd

Published on August 5, 2023 0 Comments
Aug ’23
22
7:30 pm

Zine Club Chicago Online: Zine Heroes Edition

7:30 p.m. CT Tuesday, August 22 on Zoom

Free!

Who are your zine heroes? This month, Zine Club Chicago is honoring the zinemakers we admire, those illustrious creators whose work most thrills and inspires us. Not all heroes wear capes, but ours might be wielding a long-arm stapler.

Grab your favorite zines made by your personal self-publishing icons, BYOS(nacks), and join us on Zoom for Zine Club Chicago Online: Zine Heroes Edition at 7:30 p.m. CT Tuesday, August 22!

** 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 9 p.m. CT Monday, August 21 (the evening before our event). We’ll email you the Zoom link by 5 p.m. CT Tuesday, Aug. 22.

Zine newbies and longtime enthusiasts alike are always welcome at Zine Club Chicago, the city’s only book club-style event for people who read zines. This free monthly 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 on the Zine Club Chicago social media channels: @zineclubchicago

Description of image #1: A red-and-blue infographic flyer, with a photo of zine hero (and former Quimby’s employee) Neil Brideau of Radiator Comics, and text that reads: “Zine Club Chicago: Zine Heroes Edition; Online! Free! Zoom info on quimbys.com; 7:30 p.m. CT Tuesday, August 22, 2023”

 

Description of image #2: A red-and-blue infographic flyer, with a photo of a stack of Crap Hound zines, and text that reads: “Zine Club Chicago: Zine Heroes Edition; Online! Free! Zoom info on quimbys.com; 7:30 p.m. CT Tuesday, August 22, 2023”

New Stuff This Week

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Restocks and new stickers and patches from Band of Weirdos an Stay at Home Club!

Zines

Twenty Elf #1-#3 by Johnny Masiulewicz $2 each

I Love Women Who Love Women #2 $23

Blooms $3

Moss Piglet July 2023 $12

Signal After Radio Silence Spring 2023 edited by Dasha Aksenova and Emma Kamran $10

Life of Work #1 Child Labor by David LaBounty $3

Death Scans by Mackenzie Carlock and Rush Falknor $15

Interpersonal Travel Guide #1 by Bao Luong $5

For What Seems a Thousand Years Remembering Low In Concert by Nathan Vernau $8

Strong Feelings #1 & #2 $4 each

Superpresent – multiple issues $20 each

Top Surgery Guidebook Second Edition by Stevie Linn $15

For the Love of Raymond Carver by M. Musgrove $20

Comics

I Remember Nothing a Fiction by Kevin Budnik $15

Hey Sailor #1 and #2 by Mike $4 each

Murcielago el Bruce Man by Jonny Sims $20

Forceps by R Paiao Oliveira $9

Flow Form Speciman by Lale Westvind (Neoglyphic Media) $6

Fickle Bean #1 by Evan Hicks $8

Pigeon and Friends #1 What Comes Around by Liam Kipp $6

Graphic Novels

Werewolf Jones and Sons by Simon Hanselmann and Josh Pettinger (Fantagraphics) $19.99

Dementia 21 Box Set vols 1 and 2 by Shintaro Kago (Fantagraphics) $60

Illustrated Al the Songs of Weird Al Yankovic $29.99

Soichi: Story Collection by Junji Ito $25

I Never Found You by Emma Jon Michael Frank $19.95

Art Books

Graffiti Bible: A Complete Guide on How to Do Graffiti by Eske Touborg $45

Music Books

Illustrated History of Rock by Luis Demano and Susana Monteagudo $24.95

Fiction

Museum of Human History by Rebekah Bergman $17.95

101 Horror Books to Read Before You’re Murdered by Sadie Hartmann $23.99

New Stuff This Week

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Zines

Garden People #1 by Ginnie Hsu Jessica Roux and Libby Vanderploeg $15

Nonprose #1 $8

XXCK DXNIXXL CXRXSTXEs Dream Journal #2 $1

Zines from Fluke Publishing: Embrace #2 by Laweez $4, Beef or Mutton by Emily Elders $5

Mini Comics

Glory by J.B. Van Overbeek $10

Graphic Novels

Palookaville vol 24 Cove Inn $29.95

Rivers Edge by Kyoko Okazaki $14.95

Art & Photo Books

Worlds Beyond Time: Sci-Fi Art of the 1970s by Adam Rowe $40

F 28.8 Fem Film Photographers (Pink Slip Press) $24.99

Cut Up This Book and Create Your Own Underworld by Eliza Scott & illustrated by Marta Costa Planas $17.99

Politics & Revolution Books

Sex Talk: A Feminist Discussion of Sexual Empowerment by Stephanie Estournet and Olympe de Ge $24.99

#SayHerName – Black Womens Stories of Police Violence and Public Silence by Kimberle Crenshaw & African American Policy Forum $17.95

Fiction

Oh God the Sun Goes: A Novel by David Connor $18.99

Tell Me I’m an Artist: A Novel by Chelsea Martin $17.95

If This Book Exists, You’re in the Wrong Universe by Jason Pargin $19

Charm City Rocks: A Love Story by Matthew Norman $17

Cyberpunk 2077: No Coincidence by Rafal Kosik $29

Jobs for Girls With Artistic Flair: A Novel by June Gervais $18

Kallocain by Karin Boye $17

Witchy Shit

The Everyday Witch’s Coven: Rituals and Magic for Two or More by Deborah Blake $18.99

2024 datebooks from Llewellyn (Almanacs, astrological calendars etc.) – various types and prices.

Conjuring with Cannabis: Spells and Rituals for the Weed Witch by Kerri Connor & friends $17.99

Music Books

United Forces: An Archive of Brazil’s Raw Metal Attack 1986-1991 by Marcelo R. Batista (Bazillion Points) $49.95

The Birth of Breaking: Hip-Hop History from the Floor Up by Serouj “Midus” Aprahamian, Toyin Falola & Abimbola Adelakun $24.95

Magazines

Double Blind #9 $15

Pink Slip #3 Resurgence $15

DIY

Mushroom Hunting: Forage For Fungi and Connect With the Earth by Emily & Gregory Han $12.95

To Be Read Upon My Death: Write a Scandalous Memoir About Yourself $15

Other Stuff

More Dream Bindery Sketchbooks! $20 each

So Cool Print Print by Caroline Cash $40

Stay at Home Blank Cards $4

New Stuff This Week

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Zines

Party Perfect! Queens Chicago $20

Portage by Shulamith Shulamith $5

Day They Hanged Billy Smiles by Kai Greenberg $12

Too Pure by Telly $3

Zines by Shaun Levin: Some More Than Others $20, Not a Day Goes By $12

Escape from Bucktown by Gordon Meyer $6

Comics

Clamp #4 $10

Comics by Chad Bilyeu: Chad in Amsterdam (various issues) $8 each, Re Up #1 (with Juliette de Wit) $9 each

Graphic Novels

Juliette or the Ghosts Return in the Spring by Camille Jourdy (D&Q) $29.95

Grog the Frog the Book of Taurus by Davilorium and Alba BG (Silver Sprocket) $11.99

Essay Books

The Light Room: On Art and Care by Kate Zambreno $28

TV Books

Ernie in Kovacsland: Writings, Drawings, and Photographs from Television’s Original Genius edited by Josh Mills, Ben Model & Pat Thomas (Fantagraphics) $34.99

Fiction

The Midnight Library: A Novel by Matt Haig $18

Drifts: A Novel by Kate Zambreno $18

Thrust: A Novel by Lidia Yuknavitch $17

The Twilight World by Werner Herzog $17

Sexxxy

Elska #43 Bangkok Thailand $20

Poetry & Chap Books

Shadow Act by Daniel Brock Johnson (McSweeneys) $18

Chap books by Connie Boje $6 each: Underdome #6, Big Pill #25

Magazines

Tape Op #156 $5.99

The Believer #142 $16

Robbie Q. Telfer reads from new weird chapbook at Quimby’s 8/17

Published on July 18, 2023 0 Comments
Aug ’23
17
7:00 pm

Robbie Q. Telfer’s lonely line breaks: ChatRQT (Bottlecap Press), came about when Robbie Q. Telfer asked ChatGPT about his poetry, and it replied with entirely made up poem titles and synopses that Robbie Q. Telfer had not written. Telfer wants to defend ChatGPT’s integrity, so he has written some of the poems that it has said he has already written. Now ChatGPT is no longer a liar, but a prognosticator. This collection is proof that poetry is really very easy to write and all you need is a helpful robot to get you started. Welcome to the future of art!

“…a creative and inventive approach to writing poetry! It’s fascinating to see how you’ve used the fictional titles and synopses generated by our conversations as a starting point for your own poetic exploration.” –ChatGPT, AI Powered Chatbot, coauthor

Robbie Q. Telfer has performed and taught in hundreds of places in nine different countries. His work appears in places like SEISMA, Connecticut River Review, cream city review, Sinking City Review, The New Territory, and many others. He’s been an individual finalist at the National Poetry Slam and has a poetry collection from Write Bloody Publishing. He currently works for The Morton Arboretum and Friends of Illinois Nature Preserves trying to protect and celebrate what’s left of our wild spaces.

For more info: robbieqtelfer.com, bottlecap.press

Robbie will be joined by poet and teacher Tim Stafford. His work has appeared in The Offing, Taco Bell Quarterly, and 68to05. He is the editor of the Learn Then Burn anthology series (Write Bloody Books). His debut collection “The Patron Saint of Making Curfew” was published by Haymarket Books in 2021.

Here’s the Facebook Event Invite if you get into that type of thing.

Thursday, August 17th, 7pm – Free Event