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Step into the wintery wonderland that is the Quimby’s holiday window display! Designed by our Artist-in-Residence Ashley Wilfong* (an actual position here that is totally not made up) and assisted by employee-and-artiste Echo Elise Gonzalez (check out her Dream Bindery notebooks!), the window features staff favorite books, zines, and gifts peppered among miniature buildings and festooned trees. Don’t miss the Chicago skyline in the background, the garland of colorful zines, and the tree hanging with mini-zine ornaments. Stop by anytime from 12-6 Th-M and peruse our collection of books, zines, comics, and curiosities. The store is filled with perfect gift options of every size–come in and grab something for your friends, family, maybe even yourself? We won’t tell.
* Ashley relocated this year from West Virginia to Chicago, where she is constantly reminded of the magic of our city. This is her first time making a public display and she designed it to be a place where a tiny two-headed mouse would like to live. Check out her neighborhood favorite cocktail bar Nighthawk in Albany Park.
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Zines & Zine-Related
I Love Horror Films by Bianca Brandolino $15
Shotgun Seamstress: The Complete Zine Collection by Osa Atoe $40
Miscreant #0 by Eric Williamson and NXOEED $2
I Love You Josh Baker $12
Ruckus Photos by Patrick Gibbons $5.00
The Coldest #1
Maximalist Home a Museum of You by Lily Gregoire $5
From Oblique Press/darkage:
Born of the Cursed Sex $8
Future Queer by KC $3
Dissection $5
Light of Nothing $13
Borderline $17
WYRD Magazine #1 $20
Comics
Freaky #8 by Andrew Goldfarb & friends $5
Muddlers Beat Mini #1 & #2 by Tony Breed $7 each
President of the Zoo $20
Flamingo #1 by Casey Roonan $7
Pattie Doublewall: A Comix Collection by Henry Fuguitt $5
Graphic Novels
Kwandur by Cole Pauls (Conundrum Press) $25
Winsor McCay: The Complete Little Nemo by Winsor McCay and Alexander Braun (Taschen) $80
Art Books
Women Street Artists: Twenty Four Contemporary Graffiti and Mural Artists From Around the World by Alessandra Mattanza $39.95
Jean Michael Basquiat $55
Politics & Revolution
Disability Pride: Dispatches from a Post ADA World by Ben Mattlin $29.95
The Shattering: America in the 1960s by Kevin Boyle $22
Music & Film Books
Sour Mouth, Sweet Bottom: Lessons from a Dissolute Life by Simon Napier-Bell $29.95
Halsted Plays Himself: Expanded Edition by William E. Jones (Semiotexte) $27.95
Mayhem & Outer Limits
2 Feral House reprints about The Process Church:
Propaganda and the Holy Writ of The Process Church of The Final Judgment: Process Sex Issue•Fear Issue•Death Issue by Timothy Wyllie $34.95
Love Sex Fear Death: The Inside Story of the Process Church of the Final Judgment — Expanded Edition by Timothy Wyllie and Adam Parfrey $29.95
Plant Magick: The Library of Esoterica by Jessica Hundley (Taschen) $40
The End Is At Hand: An Illustrated History of the Apocalypse by Darrel Perkins (Feral House) $32.95
Essays
Scream: Object Lessons Michael J. Seidlinger $14.95
What I Was Arrested For by Keith Lowell Jensen $16.95
Drugs
Cannabis Cooking 42 CBD Infused Recipes by ERTH $24.99
Fiction
Zinester Manifesto: A Novel of the Underground by John Dishwasher $17
Poetry & Chap Books
Poems Sneaking Through a Sieve by Riley Cavanaugh (Have a Nice Day Press) $20
Where the Men Come From by NW Downs $10
Narcissism Is the Sincerest Form of Self Love by Taylor Powers $15
Blooming from a Bleeding Heart vol 1 $3
Magazines
Border Crossings Human Nature vol 41 #2 #160 $13.95
Antigravity Nov 22 vol 20 #8 $10
For the Young at Heart
Toxic: The World’s Deadliest Creatures by Ico Romero Reyes and Tania Garcia $16.95
| Dec ’22 |
| 13 |
| 7:30 pm |
Zine Club Chicago Online: Winter Lodge Edition Co-hosted by Zine Party!
7:30 p.m. CT Tuesday, December 13 on Zoom
Free!
This month, Zine Club Chicago is teaming up again with Zine Party! to ring out 2022 with a festive online gathering! Let’s get cozy, make mini zines together, and discuss our highlights of the year in self-publishing. Zine Club Chicago will set up a swap by mail after the event for folks who’d like to share the mini zine they made, too.
Grab your zinemaking supplies*, BYOH(ot)C(ocoa), and join us on Zoom for Zine Club Chicago Online: Winter Lodge Edition Co-hosted by Zine Party! at 7:30 p.m. CT Tuesday, December 13.
** 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 Dec. 12 (the evening before our event). We’ll email you the Zoom link by 5 p.m. CT Tuesday, Dec. 13.
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.
Zine Party!, a monthly Zoom hangout for folks who make zines, is hosted by Michael Verdi on the second Tuesday of each month. Find out more at zine.party
More info at quimbys.com and on the Zine Club Chicago social media channels: @zineclubchicago. Facebook event is here.
* You’ll need a few sheets of 8.5×11” paper, a pair of scissors, whichever implements you prefer for writing/drawing/etc., and your creativity! If you’ve never made a mini zine before, here’s a quick video tutorial (and we can provide any assistance you need at the event, too): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wiUzo41dh5Q
Image description: A red-and-blue infographic flyer, with the image of a pair of feet clad in cozy socks, propped up on a table next to a stack of books with a mug set on top and a roaring fire in the background, and text that reads: “Zine Club Chicago: Winter Lodge Edition Co-hosted by Zine Party!; Online! Free!; Zoom info on quimbys.com and zine.party; 7:30 p.m. CST Tuesday, Dec. 13, 2022”
It being Cyber Monday we thought we would give a shout out to the multiple ways you can use your hard earned moolah to support us with your mail order.
You probably know we have a webstore at quimbys.com where we sell all our QuimbSwag (gift certificates, t-shirts, all that stuff) and a select few other exciting things. You can have stuff shipped! Or you can select Curbside Pickup and we’ll hold it for you!
But did you know your can also order from bookshop.org and give us a kickback?
Here’s the story with that. Let’s say you want a book we carry (or even a book we don’t carry) though it’s not available on our website. (See our bookshop.org link in our bio.) But you still want to buy it from Quimby’s. Our online bookshop.org store provides that opportunity and also lets you order your guilty pleasure book you don’t want anyone to know you’re reading. And you have it shipped directly to you! Your favorite bookstore (that would be um, us) gets a commission when you select Quimby’s as the store. We thank you for that! There are some curated lists over there too if you need some suggestions. Just make sure the Quimby’s logo is in the upper left corner and you’re gold.
Astute Quimby’s fans will recall back in the day we used to have a version of this that we used to joke about and we called it Quimazon? It was that thing that nobody used because it was awkward and confusing. Remember that? Bookshop.org is a much better version of that, an iteration that’s easy to use and updated in a way that makes sense for people. Hoo-ray!
