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Right now our shop is crammed full of amazing, unique gifts for everyone in your life. (OK, maybe not your uncle who only wants vintage Nixon paraphernalia, but just about everybody else). Here are just a few of our staff picks for the best stuff to wrap up this season.
And if you don’t spot the gift you’re seeking on this list, come on into the store and let us help you find that perfect present for someone you love (or for yourself … you surely deserve a little something, too).
Quimby’s Schwag
You know you love us … so spread the love around by gifting some Quimby’s merch, featuring original designs by some of our favorite artists.
Quimby’s Gift Certificates, available in a variety of denominations
Quimby’s Air Freshener, designed by Plastic Crimewave
Quimby’s Coasters, featuring our classic logo designed by Chris Ware
Quimby’s 30th Anniversary T-shirt, designed by Caroline Cash
Quimby’s Logo Embroidered Patch
Quimby’s Bong Mice Metallic Sticker, designed by Caroline Cash
Liz, Manager and Zine Maven
Gentrifier: A Memoir by Anne Elizabeth Moore (comes with a free bookplate signed by the author, while supplies last)
Someplace Special, edited by Aim Ren Beland and Cynthia E. Hanifin
Lydia Tomkiw: Poems, edited by Dan Shepelavy
Hang in There Kitten Tea Towel, designed and hand-printed by Heather Anacker
Dame Darcy Meat Cake Calendar 2022
Caroline, Cartoonist in Residence
Heaven No Hell by Michael DeForge
Bubbles, An Independent Fanzine About Comics and Manga #11 (We’ve got issues #1-#10 in stock, too)
Be Gay Do Crime by Mary Nardini Gang
You Have Been Catcalled. What Do You Do? Patch by Jenn Woodall
Cynthia (Zinethia), Zine Warrior
Qustomized Quimby’s Zine Package $25 Version (also available in $69 and $100 versions)
Awesome Things #4 by Liz Mason (Awesome Things #1, #2, and #3 are, frankly, awesome, as well!)
Girl in the World by Caroline Cash (comes with a free sticker sheet designed by the artist, while supplies last)
Social Justice Kittens Calendar 2021 (available in-store only)
Zine Game Deck by Billy McCall
White City Devil Coffee & Coconut Candle (available in-store only, with a free Quimby’s matchbook while supplies last)
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No New Stuff Saturdays Livestream this week but here’s the new stuff post a day early!
Zines & Zine-Related
Long Arm Stapler COZY by Heather Anacker! Made exclusively for Quimby’s!!! $20
Freaks and Geeks: A Fanzine by Lizzie Robillard (Fluke Publishing) $5
Christopher Coppola Fanzine $5
Feline Frustrations by Colt Hack $5
Five Day Death Workbook $12
Words and Smiles #5 $4
Comics & Minis
Stuff from Nick Bunch/Reptile House Comix: Reptile House issues #7 & #8, Blood Horn #1
Lemonade Tango #1 by Henry Uhrik $7
Comics by Wyatt Phillips & friends: Shitty Presidents, Everything Rots & more
On Sneaking by Jon Inaki $10
Multiple Comics by Kai Lumbang: All Boys Leave Home, End Comes Beyond Chaos, Celestial Summons & more.
Kitchen Witchen & DIYing & Parenting & Doing Things
Hang In There Kitten TEA TOWEL by Heather Anacker $12
Kitchen Witch: Natural Remedies and Crafts for Home, Health, and Beauty by Katie Haegele & Nadine Schneider (Microcosm) $19.95
Woke Parenting: Raising Intersectional Feminist, Empathic, Engaged, and Generally Non-Shitty Kids While Still Having a Life by Faith G. Harper & Bonnie Scott (Microcosm) $14.95
Unfuck Your Friendships: Using Science to Make and Maintain the Most Important Relationships of Your Life by Faith G. Harper (Microcosm) $14.95
Graphic Novels
Too Tough to Die: An Aging Punx Anthology edited by Haleigh Buck and J. T. Yost (Birdcage Bottom Books) $20
Comrade Himbo featuring Aim Ren Beland & friends (POMEpress) $25
Creepy Case Files of Margo Maloo vols 2 & 3 by Drew Weing
Mayhem
Tarot for Change: Using the Cards for Self-Care, Acceptance, and Growth by Jessica Dore $27
Magic: A History from Alchemy to Witchcraft From the Ice Age to the Present by Chris Gosden $20 – Now in soft cover.
Fiction
C.A.T.S.: Cycling Across Time And Space: 11 Feminist Science Fiction and Fantasy Stories about Bicycling and Cats by Elly Blue (Microcosm) $12.95
Dispatches from Anarres: Tales in Tribute to Ursula K. Le Guin $18
Druuuuuuugs
Dopeworld: Adventures in Drug Lands by Niko Vorobyov $18.99
Chap Books, Poetry, Lit Journals
Titles by Blau, $5 each: Existential Crisis, Organized Chaos
Schematics and Assemblies of the Cosmic Heart by Gary Gautier $10
Pity Party by Nicholas Herrera $13
Taddle Creek #47 C Holiday 2021 $2.95
Magazines
Apartamento #28 $30
Essays
The 88 Keys That Opened Doors by Charles Joseph Smith edited by Kate Hutchinson $15
| Dec ’21 |
| 14 |
| 7:30 pm |
Zine Club Chicago Online: Holiday Zinemaking Hangout + Swap Edition
7:30 p.m. CST Tuesday, December 14 on Zoom
Free!
For Zine Club Chicago’s last event of the year, you’re all invited to make mini zines with our merry crew! Let’s celebrate this festive season together with a laidback virtual hangout. A swap by mail will be held after the event for folks who’d like to share the mini zine they made, too.
All you need to bring is a few sheets of paper, a writing utensil, 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
Grab your zinemaking supplies, BYO(H)oliday(T)reats, and join us on Zoom for Zine Club Chicago Online: Holiday Zinemaking Hangout + Swap Edition at 7:30 p.m. CST Tuesday, December 14!
** RSVP required ** To help make sure that online Zine Club Chicago events are a safe space, the Zoom link won’t be released publicly. If you’d like to attend, please email zineclubchicago@gmail.com to RSVP by 9 p.m. CST Monday, December 13. You’ll receive the Zoom link by 11 p.m. CST that evening.
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 Chicago Zine Fest/Midwest Perzine Fest organizer Cynthia E. Hanifin and sponsored by Quimby’s Bookstore. Anna Jo Beck designs the club’s monthly flyers, created its logo, and made the Zine Club Chicago Shout-Outs site, where folks can peruse and recommend zines.
More info on the Zine Club Chicago social media channels: @zineclubchicago. Facebook event is here.
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Zines
Skeletor’s Guide to Surviving the Holidays (Eternia Press) $6.66
Faith G. Harper how-to zines, $5.95 each: Unfuck Your Mindfulness & Meditation: Exercises to Calm Your Body, Mind, and Vagus Nerve $5.95 (also one about breathing and stress), and also somehow Unfuck Your Bread: Gluten-free, Paleo, and Keto Recipes for People Who Miss Bread
Phantom Pie Maker, From the Story Collection Haunted Junk Drawer by Eric Bartholomew $2
Comics & Minis
Punkins Imagination by Turtel Onli $3
Graphic Novels
Brian Blomerth’s Mycelium Wassonii $32
Weeding by Genevieve Lebleu $18
Man In Furs: From Divine Punishment to Punishment Divine by Catherine Sauvat and Anne Simon (Fantagraphics) $24.99
Beasts of Burden: Occupied Territory by Evan Dorkin, Ben Dewey & friends $24.99
Art Kinda Maybe Sorta Fashion
Murakami T: The T-Shirts I Love by Haruki Murakami $25
Politics & Revolution
The Art of Activism: Your All-Purpose Guide to Making the Impossible Possible by Stephen Duncombe & Steve Lambert $24.95
Free Speech Handbook: A Practical Framework for Understanding Our Free Speech Protections by Ian Rosenberg & illustrated by Mike Cavallaro $28.99
DIY
Radical Sewing: Pattern-Free, Sustainable Fashions for All Bodies by Kate Weiss (Microcosm) $14.95
The Herb Almanac: A Seasonal Guide to Medicinal Plants by the Chelsea Physic Garden and Holly Farrell $15.95
Music
King of the Blues: The Rise and Reign of B.B. King by Daniel de Vise $30
Fiction
People From My Neighborhood by Hiromi Kawakami $15.95
Mayhem & Outer Limits
Witchcraft. The Library of Esoterica edited by Jessica Hundley (Taschen) $40
Humor
A Modern Man: The Best of George Carlin $17.99
Essay
Penal Theories and Institutions: Lectures at the Collège de France 1971-1972 by Michel Foucault, edited by Bernard E. Harcourt $20
Essays Two by Lydia Davis $35
Magazines
Monocle #148 november $14
Dazed and Confused vol 5 #273 fall $13.20
In These Times december $4.95
Frankie #103 $17.99
Adbusters #158 vol 29 #6 november december $14.95
Gentlewoman #24 fall winter $17.99
Heavy Metal #311 $13.99
Plus: More stickers!
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