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| May ’23 |
| 26 |
| 7:00 pm |
Zine Club Chicago In Person: Choose Your Own Adventure Zine Workshop
With Jude R. Bettridge
7-9 p.m. CT Friday, May 26
Quimby’s Bookstore, 1854 W. North Ave.
Free!
In May, Zine Club Chicago is excited to welcome Jude R. Bettridge to lead a workshop that gives Choose Your Own Adventure a zine twist! Jude will demonstrate how to make multiple folded, mini-zine formats that offer readers a chance to explore. Create stories that lead to different outcomes, sending your favorite characters on an epic quest of your choosing!
Join us for Zine Club Chicago In Person: Choose Your Own Adventure Zine Workshop at 7-9 p.m. Friday, May 26 here at the shop. We’ll have zinemaking supplies and snacks on hand! Masks are strongly encouraged when you’re not noshing.
Jude R. Bettridge (they/them/theirs) is a Chicago-based Jack-of-all-trades artist, whose focus shifts from comics and zines to oil painting and fiber sculpture as often as they change their pants. Their comic work draws inspiration from the great Art Spiegelman, Bill Watterson, and Beth Hetland as they depict the daily struggles of being a neurodivergent super-queer social anomaly in a late-stage capitalistic hellscape. Often featuring fantastical characters and their fat cat, Gravy Boat, their work takes on a cynical, sarcastic lens to talk about mental health, trans rights, environmentalism, queerness, socialism, and much more. Is this a coping mechanism? Maybe. In a nutshell, they just want to talk about zines, queerness, and have someone read their comics.
Out-of-town friends, Zine Club Chicago will be back on Zoom with y’all in June with a to-be-announced special guest co-host! If you’d like to get together virtually with zine pals in May, check out Zine Party!, hosted by Michael Verdi, at 7:30 p.m. CT Tuesday, May 9. For more info and the Zoom link, visit next.zine.party
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.
More info on the Zine Club Chicago social media channels: @zineclubchicago. Facebook event here.
Image description: A red-and-blue infographic flyer, with a black-and white image in the center featuring a sword, treasure map, and various other adventure-themed images, and text that reads: “Zine Club Chicago: Choose Your Own Adventure Zine Workshop in Collaboration With Jude R. Bettridge; In Person! Free!; Quimby’s Bookstore, 1854 W. North Ave. in Wicker Park; 7-9 p.m. Friday, May 26, 2023”
| May ’23 |
| 21 |
| 12:00 pm |
12-2 p.m. Sunday, May 21
Quimby’s Bookstore
1854 W. North Ave.
Free!
Going to Chicago Zine Fest?* Let’s keep the fun fest vibe going all weekend! Zine Club Chicago is hosting a meetup (with snacks, of course) from 12 to 2 p.m. Sunday, May 21 here at the shop. Spend time with your zine pals and make new ones, eat some cookies, browse fresh arrivals in the shop, and drop off your consignment items.**
Free! Masks encouraged. More info on the Zine Club Chicago social media channels: @zineclubchicago. Facebook event here.
* We’ll be there! Look for the Quimby’s and Zine Club Chicago tables at #CZF2023.
** Please note that we have moved to an email-only consignment check-in system and will not be able to make consignment payouts or check current stock levels of your consignment items during the hangout.
Image description: A black-and-white, cut-and-paste event flyer that reads: “Join Zine Club Chicago for a Post-Chicago Zine Fest Hangout! 12-2 p.m. Sunday, May 21 at Quimby’s Bookstore, 1854 W. North Ave. in Wicker Park; Free!: Meet up with zine friends and make new ones!; Drop off consignment items!; Eat cookies!; Masks encouraged; More info: quimbys.com”
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Zines
Reglar Wiglar #29 by Chris Auman $7.00
Unresolved #6 $5
Things I Considered Risking My Life For by Elisa Peterson $7.00
Urban Combat Tactics by Usma and Pizana $5
Raw Meat Chainsaw issues #1 & #2 by Aiden Workman $5,$10
Aries $5
Zines from Late Night Copies Press: Queer Materials issues #1-#3 $15 each, Notes on Libraries: Lesbians and Pulp $5 & more.
Comics
Comics Blogger #3 by Thomas $5
ET Stoned at Home issues #1 & #2 by N. Khan $6 each
Yo Home Boy #2 by Nick Pizana $5
Bog Magic by Jared Baker $5
Sugar Booger #4 by Kevin Scalzo $12
Riot Comics: Tompkins Square Park, NYC 1988 by Johnny Damm $8
Deng #2 by Donny Walsh $10
New stuff from Liz Yerby: New Yerby Fall 2022 $10, Klaus Nomi a Graphic Biography and Collaborative Anthology (with friends) $15
Ghouls #4 by Josh Simmons $4
Graphic Novels
Hot Dog Diary by Nathan Tolzmann (Boatwhistle Books) $34
Art & Design Books
Are You Free From Saturday From 4-7 P.M. – NYC Street Poets and Visionaries edited by Kenneth Goldsmith $50
Temporary Pleasure: Nightclub Architecture, Design and Culture From the 1960s to Today by John Leo Gillen $50.00
2 Soccer Club Club books from Drag City: Projectile $15, PFFR $36.98
Politics & Revolution Books
It Did Happen Here: An Antifascist Peoples History by Julie Perini, Moe Bowstern & Mic Crenshaw (PM Press) $21.95
Intolerable Present: The Urgency of Revolution Minorities and Classes by Maurizio Lazzarato (Semiotexte) $16.95
Waiting to Inhale: Cannabis Legalization and the Fight For Racial Justice by Akwasi Owusu-Bempah and Tahira Rehmatullah $22.95
Film & Music Books
The Making of Creepshow 2 by Lee Karr (Plexus) $29.95
Gabba Gabba Hey: A Conversation with the Ramones by Carl Cafarelli (Rare Bird Books) $25
A Year With Swollen Appendices SC Brian Enos Diary 1995 by Brian Eno $17.95
Don’t Call It Hair Metal: Art In the Excess of 80s Rock by Sean Kelly $21.95
Brandan Kearney’s Official On Cinema at the Cinema Reader vol 1 2010-2018 by Tim Heidecker and Gregg Turkington (Drag City) $39.98
Essays
We Peaked at Paper: An Oral History of British Zines by Gavin Hogg and Hamish Ironside (Boatwhistle Books) $27.99
Monsters: A Fan’s Dilemma by Claire Dederer $28
Analog by Robert Hassan $16.95
Fiction
The Book of Eve by Carmen Boullosa (Deep Vellum) $17.95
The Girls by Edna Ferbe (Belt Publishing) $24
Don’t Worry We’re Okay by Khloe Janel $15.99
Parade (2nd ed.) by Emiliana Helfeld $15
Hard to Categorize Exactly
Lucky Leaf Handbook by T. E. P. Noodle (Boatwhistle Books) $11.99
Lit Journals, Chap Books & Poetry
Lists by Vahnaree $5
New stuff From Porkbelly Press: Haunted #1 $13, Rites of Passing by Verna Zafra Kasala $9, Closeted Diaries by Grace Ge Gilbert $13, Grant Me the Tooth by Michelle Seaman $13 and more.
Satirist Prose Poems by Caleb Bouchard $8
McSweeney’s #70 $28
Magazines
Geez #68 $15
For the Young at Heart
Shorty’s Ark by Will Oldham and Illustrations by Lori Damiano (Drag City) $17.98
Sexxxy
How to Fuck Like a Girl: Vera Blossom’s Sex Diary (Wiggle Bird Mailing Club) $5
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PeePee PooPoo #420 by Caroline Cash (Silver Sprocket) $9.99
Zines
Ornery Cuss by K. Ratticus $4
OneMan NoName: A Record of Experience issues #1-3 by Lyndon Johnson $10 each
Bunny Year by grousygirl and Jilly Foo $5
Apple Girls by Brenna Brash $5
Zines by Molly Rosen Marriner: Enter the Menstagram $4, Memories of Fat Camp $5, (with Jane Justice Leibrock) Content Queen issues #1-4 $2 each & more.
Bohemia Coloring Book #2 April 2023 Mixed by Floor Supervisor $5
Comics
Bubbles #16 by Brian Baynes & friends $8
When We Were Trekkies #4 & #5 by Joe Sikoryak $4 each
Dazzle #0 & #1 For Your Pleasure by Andrew Villone & friends $10 each
Mayhem Books
Tarot Goblinko: Dark Fantasy Medieval Punk Tarot by Sean Aaberg (Goblinko) $29.95
Essays
Staring Contest: Essays About Eyes by Joshua James Amberson $15
Is It Hot in Here (Or Am I Suffering for All Eternity for the Sins I Committed on Earth)? by Zach Zimmerman (Chronicle) $16.95
Fiction
Pure Colour: A Novel by Shelia Heti $17
Chap Book & Poetry
Poem I Wrote After I Learned My Roommates Drank All the White Claws by Bethany and Brenna $5
It Made a Sound: Poetry and Art by Kyle Brandt-Lubart and Bobby Stevens $20
Sexxxy
Super Edco Presents: Excerpts from the Ars Daemonica #1 by Eric Desantis $10
