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| Oct ’23 |
| 17 |
| 7:30 pm |
Zine Club Chicago Online: The Business of DIY —
A Conversation with Jenna Blazevich of Vichcraft
7:30 p.m. CT Tuesday, October 17 on the Quimby’s YouTube channel
Free!
This month, Zine Club Chicago is excited to welcome Jenna Blazevich of Vichcraft for a conversation about the business of DIY! Jenna, a local artist and chainstitcher, has channeled her DIY passions into one of Chicago’s most inventive independent businesses.
Want to know more about the nuts and bolts of making a living with your art while expressing your DIY values, building an indie business from the ground up, and forging successful partnerships with other creative folks? Jenna will discuss all this and more — including how her secondhand risograph printer was a major score — in conversation with Zine Club Chicago producer Cynthia E. Hanifin.
Please join us for Zine Club Chicago Online: The Business of DIY — A Conversation with Jenna Blazevich of Vichcraft at 7:30 p.m. CT Tuesday, Oct. 17 on the Quimby’s Bookstore YouTube channel. No need to RSVP – just head over to YouTube.com/QuimbysBookstore.
Do you have questions for Jenna? Please email them to us in advance at zineclubchicago@gmail.com or join the YouTube chat during the event to take part in the Q&A segment of the discussion.
Vichcraft recently collaborated with us to create some special merch for our 32nd anniversary! You can check out the limited-edition t-shirt and more here: Quimby’s x Vichcraft
Vichcraft is the independent and collaborative, multi-disciplinary studio of Jenna Blazevich.
Since being founded in 2015, Vichcraft has steadily been building a collection of social-issue driven projects made with various tactile handcraft mediums. Currently there is a focus on creating embroidery work using a 100 year old hand-cranked machine, lettering design collaborations with socially-conscious companies, and conceptual stained glass.
Vichcraft strives to work right around the line between art, craft, and design to create historically-informed work that provokes new ways of thinking.
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.
Facebook link here. More info on the Zine Club Chicago social media channels: @zineclubchicago
Image description: A red-blue-and-grey infographic flyer with a photo of Jenna Blazevich of Vichcraft holding one of her birds, a background featuring photos of several of Vichcraft’s designs, and text that reads: “Zine Club Chicago: The Business of DIY Edition — A Conversation With Jenna Blazevich of Vichcraft; Online! Free! More info on quimbys.com; 7:30 p.m. CT Tuesday, Oct. 17, 2023; YouTube.com/QuimbysBookstore”
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Quimby’s 32nd Anniversary T-shirt, designed by Vichcraft $34.99
Set of 5 Vichcraft Quimby’s Bookplates! $10
Zines
2 Crap Hounds, $20 each!!:
Additions 2023
and
The Collected Extras & Black Cat Mini Issue
Bookshelf Voyeur #5 Mini Zines and Me by L J Williams $10
Monsterama #4 Nostalgia Driven Horror Art, Your Retro Horror Zine by Allan Graves $20
Postcards from Irving #5 by Tyler $3
Urges #1 by Erick Freitas and Derick Jones $10
I Used To Be The Sun: A Zine by Sula Found $6
UOWOUGH by Kelly Wang $10
Qwerty Quarterly #2 The Official Publication of Qwertyfest MKE: Chaos at the Clackathon by Molly Snyder and Tea Krulos $5
With or Without You by DeVontez $11
Angels by Veronica Timble $15
Zines by Kaden West: Beelzebub and His Many Appearances, Envy & many more.
Zines by Nick DiLollo: Cats, God’s Voicemail, Pale Ales and Power Rangers and more.
Comics
Gutter Hunter #3 The Adults Only Guide to History’s Wildest Independent Comics by Robin Bougie $14
Ride at Your Own Risk: A Collection of Memoir Comics by S. Maloney $10
I’m Not Really Here #1 by Derick Jones $10
Swan The Vulture #7 by Anna Vo $5
Venomyths #6 & #7 by Joshua Ray Stephens, $20 each
When We Were Trekkies #6 & #7 by Joe Sikoryak, $4 each
Graphic Novels
Monica by Daniel Clowes (Fantagraphics) $30
Time Under Tension by M.S. Harkness (Fantagraphics) $24.99
Blackward by Lawrence Lindell (D+Q) $22.95
Politics & Revolution Books
Culture Strike: Art and Museums In an Age of Protest by Laura Raicovich $19.95
Essays
Creep: Accusations and Confessions by Myriam Gurba $27
Magazines
Tape Op #157 $5.99
Poetry
Coyote’s Song: Collected Poems & Selected Art of Carlos Cortez Koyokuikatl, edited by Carlos Cumpian and David Ranney $20
Witchy Shit
The Beginner Witch’s Handbook: Essential Spells, Folk Traditions, and Lore for Crafting Your Magickal Practice by Leah Middleton $21.99
For the Young at Heart
Paddle Rat by Rex Flodstrom $20
Calendars
Social Justice Kittens 2024 by Liartown USA $20
| Oct ’23 |
| 21 |
| 1:00 pm |
Korero Press is happy to announce that a hefty slab of punk rock history is coffee-table-ready: Shovelin’ The Sh!t Since ’87 is a 250+ page book of influential artwork, photographs, interviews and text detailing the history of the legendary garage rock label, Estrus Records. For nearly two decades, Dave Crider’s Bellingham, Washington-based operation churned out hundreds of releases from mainstays in garage, trash, surf, and punk — among them, The Mummies, Man or Astroman?, The Makers, Teengenerate, and Crider’s own Mono Men. And because the imagery associated with Estrus’ releases matched the ferocity of the music, this beast is filled with vivid concert posters, iconic album covers and bizzare oddities created by a handful of elite graphic artists — including visionary Art Chantry, who was behind much of the label’s artwork.
Author Chris Alpert Coyle and designer Scott Sugiuchi are taking copies of the new book with them on the Shovelin’ USA Tour. Join them here at Quimby’s Bookstore in Wicker Park on Saturday, October 21st beginning at 1pm. The Q&A session with Chet “The Cheetah” Weise (Quadrajets, Immortal Lee Co. Killers), Alex Wald & Marty Perez will be an opportunity for folks to ask questions about the iconic label’s history — and Coyle and Sugiuchi can give insight on what the multiyear project was like.
The book does not go on sale to the general public until late November, so Quimby’s will be one of the few places people can buy it ahead of time at the event on October 21st!
FREE EVENT!
Bios!
Chris Alpert Coyle is a nomadic music journalist (and serious journalist) whose material has been featured on CBS News, WGN, CBS Radio and The Inlander. As a musician, he has toured much of the United States with two different punk rock combos. As an outside linebacker for the ’79 Pittsburgh Steelers, wait…Different guy, actually. Never mind. Yeah, this guy (above) just writes stuff.
Scott Sugiuchi has been designing for more than 30 years. Highlights include work for Artisan Films (The Blair Witch Project), the American Film Institute and countless bands, record labels and venues. He is the founder of Hidden Volume Records, a boutique record label with more than 50 releases and is currently the Art Director for Alamo Drafthouse Cinema. He lives in Santa Fe, New Mexico.
Chet Weise’s poetry and fiction have appeared or been anthologized in publications such as Apocalypse Now: Poems and Prose from the End of Days, Birmingham Poetry Review, Constant Stranger: After Frank Stanford, Copper Nickel, Peach Mag, and the Rough Trade 40th Anniversary Journal. A musician, too, Weise toured and recorded with groups The Quadrajets and ?the Immortal Lee County Killers?. He was banned from Canada during 2008. Weise currently lives in Nashville, Tennessee, where he is the editor at Third Man Books and plays guitar in Kings of the Fucking Sea.
Alex Wald: Painter; illustrator for Estrus Records, Wired, Playboy, Hustler, many more; comic artist and colorist, art director, First Comics; kaiju scholar and collector, Astromonster Co., Ltd. designer and proprietor; blues harp player, ex-Dirty Wurds, Sunnyland Slim, Johnny Young and others; still making coffee.
Marty Perez is a Chicago-based photographer who has been documenting the parallels between the worlds of underground rock as well as some of the biggest stars of pop music, from 1976 to the present.
Very important links!
instagram.com/estrus_records_book
facebook.com/estrusrecordsbook
koreropress.com/estrus-shovelin-the-shit-since-87
kickstarter.com/projects/estrus/estrus-shovelin-the-shit-since-87
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Quimbys Disappointing You Bumper Sticker $6 – Flaunt your disappointment far and wide with this sticker printed by our friends at Bumpin’ Uglies on the occasion of our 32nd anniversary!
Zines
Amulet by Echo the Human $5
“Why Don’t You Get Busy and Answer My Letter?”: Passive Aggressive and Snarky Antique Postcards 1906-1913 by Robert T. Glen $6
Battle of Antarctica: Enduring Change In Dead Systems by Will Dee $13
Issues Homocats by J. Morrison, $15 each: Fuck it All, Fight the Machine
Dream Space – A Make Believe TTRPG by Larry Dembski $17
Queer Space Communism: An Illustrated Manifesto by Milo $5
Femme Shark Communique #1 All Our Holes Are Hungry Hungry for Justice and Fucking by Zuleikha Mahmood and Leah Lakshmi Piepzna Samarasinha $5
Zines from Iffy Books, $5 each: Lora and Meshtastic – Encrypted Messaging From Your Phone Without the Internet by Mike Dank, Share a File With BitTorrent a Do It Yourself Guide
Act Up Ephemera: Pins, Pamphlets and Posters From AIDS Organizing in the US $6
Shame on Pride For Selling Out Queers by Abuzar $5
Cripple Punk Mag: Accessibility in Local Music: #2 Accessibility Tips for Bands and Venues $5 & #3 The Community Issue $6.50
Comics
Cartoon Dialectics #4 The Coming of the Terraformer (Uncivilized) $6
Micro Comics by Jam Doughty, $2 each: Letters From the Memory Forest, Fall Instar Sep 2023, Blind Contour Garden
West #3 by John Grund (Uncivilized) $6.99
Comics by Morgan Vogel: Valle $6, Nightcore Energy $9
Plot Against the Giant by Caroline Bren $6
Vincent by Sarah Foley $3
Zines by Andrew Coltrin/Partly Robot: Don’t Be Terrible $3, A Is for Autistic: A Personal Glossary $5
Fugu Comix #3 by Cameron Hatheway $5
Maple Terrace #1 & #2 by Noah Van Sciver $6 each
Etiquette for Assclowns #1: The Subway by Elliot Fu $15
Fighting Shape by Tom Orr $6
Art & Design Books
Acky Bright B/W by Acky Bright (PIE International) $29.99
Summer of Hamn by Chuck D (Enemy Books) $34.95
From Angels to Werewolves: Human-Animal Hybrids in Art and Myth by Philip F. Palmedo $35
The Secret Life vol 1 1904-1924 by Salvador Dali (Deicide) $19.95
Politics & Revolution Books
Care: The Highest Stage of Capitalism by Premilla Nadasen (Haymarket) $19.95
Proudhon’s Sociology by Pierre Ansart, edited by Cayce Jamil (AK Press) $22
Going for Broke: Living on the Edge in the World’s Richest Country edited by Alissa Quart & David Wallis (Haymarket) $19.95
DIY Books
Hand Lettering and Beyond: A Beginners Workbook for the Creative Art of Drawing Letters by Sofie Bjorkgren Nase $13.95
Music Books
Just a Minor Threat by Glen E. Friedman (Akashic) $35
Faith, Hope and Carnage by Nick Cave & Seán O’Hagan $20
Good Pop Bad Pop: An Inventory by Jarvis Cocker $19.99
Strange Celestial Road: My Time in the Sun Ra Arkestra by Ahmed Abdullah with Louis Reyes Rivera (Blank Forms Editions) $29.95
This Is What It Sounds Like: A Legendary Producer Turned Neuroscientist on Finding Yourself Through Music by Susan Rogers and Ogi Ogas $17.95
Do You Believe In the Power of Rock & Roll? by John Robb (Unbound) $22.95
Born in the Bronx: A Visual Record of the Early Days of Hip Hop by Joe Conzo $55
Essays
Love and Industry: A Midwestern Workbook by Sonya Huber $19.95
Octavia E. Butler: The Last Interview and Other Conversations $19.99
Food
Holy Food: How Cults, Communes, and Religious Movements Influenced What We Eat – An American History by Christina Ward (Process) $32.95
Fiction
Mr Crabby You Have Died by Jeremy Kitchen (First to Knock) $16
Atoms Never Touch by micha cardenas (AK Press) $16
2 Raymond Queneau books, $16.95 each: Pierrot Mon Ami by Raymond Queneau, Sally Mara’s Intimate Journal
Starter Villain by John Scalzi $28.99
More titles from the British Library’s Tales of the Weird Series, $16.99 each: Haunters at the Hearth: Eerie Tales for Christmas Nights, Polar Horrors: Chilling Tales from the Ends of the Earth
Poetry & Chap Books
Sex Augury Poems by C Bain $17.95
Chap Books by Nate Hoil (Secret Restaurant Press): A Message From the Gallery of Excavated Heads $14, Breakfast $10
Sexxxy
Penetration of the Skin by Pris Genet $8
Magazines
The Anarchist Review of Books #6 $6
Border Crossings #162 $15
