Happy Holidays from Quimby’s!

Published on December 4, 2022 0 Comments

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.

New Stuff This Week

Published on December 3, 2022 0 Comments

 

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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

Zine Club Chicago Online: Winter Lodge Edition Co-hosted by Zine Party, Dec. 13th!

Published on November 30, 2022 0 Comments
Dec ’22
13
7:30 pm

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”

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”

Support Quimby’s on Cyber Monday (Or Any Day, Really)

Published on November 28, 2022 0 Comments
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!

New Stuff This Week

Published on November 26, 2022 0 Comments

 

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Zines

SNAX: A Zine Club Chicago Collab Zine, edited by Rachel Hyman and Liz Mason and Cynthia E. Hanifin $12

Draculas Dumpster vol 1 #1 This Ain’t No Hula $6.75

Mythological Encyclopedia 1st edition by Kristel Becares $15.00

Zines & Comics by Emma B Rosengarten: Muscular I Hardly Know Her $6, Flee $4.00 & more.

Last Place Chili by Tin Diaz-Rodriguez $2.00

Unresolved #4 Tehching Hsieh and Donkey Basketball by Eli Schmitt $5.00

Cephalophore #1 Chicago $5.00

New Stuff & restocks from Firemotif

Zines from Catdroool: Twin Peaks Zine, How to Become an Artist, We Deserve Cats, Missed Connections & more $10 each

Comics & Minis

Magical Beatdown vol 3 by Jenn Woodall (Silver Sprocket) $9.99

Flowery #45 by Mel Stringer $7.50

Detention #2 Maggie a Girl In the Streets by Stephen Crane (Fantagraphics) $20.00

Sir Alfred #3 by Tim Hensley (Fantagraphics) $20.00

Anenome by Lindsey Shaw $5.00

Vacuum Decay #5 by Harry Nordlinger $10.00

Stay Awake by Alex Strader $9.00

New issues of New Wave Comics by David & Reginald Wayne Soileau $2.00 each

Tack #1 Try Again Cool Kid $10.00

Isidore and Friends vol 1 by Alexi $6.00

New stuff & restocks from Davidt Dunlop

New stuff & restocks from Ivy Rose

Thee Infinite C by Joshua W Cotter $2.00

Day Dreamers Science $12.00

ANTICAT dEFY cATEGOREY #1 edited by Duke Pierce Reade $3.00

Mom and I by M. Elias Hiebert $1.00

Graphic Novels

Men I Trust by Tommi Parrish (Fantagraphics) $34.99

Fax of Life by Dan Rhett $10.00

Music Books

Denim and Leather: The Rise and Fall of the New Wave of British Heavy Metal by Michael Hann (Bazillion Points) $29.95

Totally Wired: The Rise and Fall of the Music Press by Paul Gorman $34.95

Kurt Cobain: The Last Interview & Other Conversations $17.99

The First 21: How I Became Nikki Sixx $17.99

Fiction

How to Forget Almost Everything: A Novel by Joshua James Amberson (Korza Books) $14.00

XX by Rian Hughes $25.00

Essay & Memoir

Essays Two: On Proust, Translation, Foreign Languages, and the City of Arles by Lydia Davis $23

Madam: The Biography of Polly Adler Icon of the Jazz Age by Debby Applegate $18.00

Science!

Rude Science: Everything You’ve Always Wanted to Know About the Science No One Ever Talks About by Stefan Gates $16.99

Drinkin’

Raising the Bar: A Bottle by Bottle Guide to Mixing Masterful Cocktails at Home by Brett Adams and Jacob Greer $24.95

Lit Journals, Chap Books & Poetry

Merv Zine Rhymes With #1 $5

Lyrics As Poetry #4 Journal of Songwriting and Prose $20

Overtime #63 Walkin’ Papers by June Thompson $2.00

Detroit Lit Mag #3 $3.00

Poplandia by Andre F. Peltier $10.99

Magazines

Kitchen Table Magazine #5 The Roots Issue $20.00

Tidal Magazine Fall 22 #15 Jessica Henwick $16.00

Antigravity Oct 22 vol 2 #7 $10.00

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