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Quimby’s turns 30 this year and we have all sorts of anniversary merch! Quimby’s 30th Anniversary T-shirt by Caroline Cash! $18.99 + Four Inch Quimby’s Logo Sticker, logo designed by Chris Ware $3

 

Other Notables!

Crisis Zone by Simon Hanselmann (Fantagraphics) $29.99

Mel Stringer goodies!!! Stickers, lip balm (!), pins and more!

Zines

Slide the Bomb by Keith Herzik $10

Cave Man Noise #4 $5

Drifting Cry Room #55 $3

Do You Like Scary Movies #3 by Ronnie $5

Pretty Girl by Carta Monir $3

Werewolves of Wall Street by Watt $8

Leave Us Alone No Pigs in Our Clubs $3

Comics

Spiny Orb Weaver #3 by Neil Brideau, Buttercup, Remus Jackson and Jamila Rowser (Radiator) $10

Montana Diary by Whit Taylor (Silver Sprocket) $5

Comics by Kassandra Davis: Manic Queen of Depression #1 ($5) & Do You Remember the First Time ($10)

That Ol English #1 by CM Campbell $7

Cosmic Burnout #3 by Sheridactyl $15

Dailies #3 by Athena Naylor $10

Graphic Novels

The Butchery by Bastien Vivès (Fantagraphics) $19.99

D+Q reprints of Wendy and Wendys Revenge $22.95 each

Art Books

Letters to Chicago, 2nd edition by Sir Charles (Almighty and Insane) $20

Politics & Revolution

Riot Woman: Using Feminist Values to Destroy the Patriarchy by Eleanor C. Whitney (Microcosm) $14.95

The FBI War on Tupac Shakur: The State Repression of Black Leaders from the Civil Rights Era to the 1990s by John Potash (Microcosm) $18.95

Patriarchy of the Wage: Notes on Marx, Gender, and Feminism by Silvia Federici (PM Press) $15

When to Talk and When to Fight: The Strategic Choice between Dialogue and Resistance by Rebecca Subar & illustrated by Rosi Greenberg (PM Press) $20

Signal 07: A Journal of International Political Graphics and Culture by Alec Dunn and Josh MacPhee (PM Press) $14.95

A World Without Police: How Strong Communities Make Cops Obsolete by Geo Maher (Verso) $26.95

Not A Nation of Immigrants: Settler Colonialism, White Supremacy, and a History of Erasure and Exclusion by Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz $27.95

I Want to Believe: Posadism, UFOs, and Apocalypse … by A. M. Gittlitz (Pluto Press) $23.95

The People, No: A Brief History of Anti-Populism by Thomas Frank $18

DIY Books

Monthly Magickal Record: A 31-Day Spell Journal for Modern Witches by Kelly Cree & Jessica Mullen (School of Life Design/Microcosm) $14.95

Mayhem Books

ENCYCLOPAEDIA OF HELL II: The Conquest of Heaven A Demonic History of the Future Concerning the Celestial Realm and the Angelic Race Which Infests It by Martin Olson, Tony Millionaire and Mahendra Singh (Feral House) $24.95

Music Books

Do What You Want: The Story of Bad Religion by Jim Ruland $17.99

Food & Drugs Books

Unique Eats and Eateries of Chicago by Matt Kirouac (Reedy Press) $20.95

Extreme Cuisine the Weird and Wonderful Foods That People Eat by Jerry Hopkins (Tuttle) $8.99

The Secret Life of Fungi: Discoveries From a Hidden World by Aliya Whiteley $26.95

Magazines

Shindig #117 july $13.99

Jacobin #42 summer $12.95

Harpers september $7.99

Shots #152 summer $10

Poetry

Standing on the Verge of Getting It On and Maggot Brain by Adrian Matejka and Nicholas Galanin (Third Man Books) $16.95

American Luc Bat For My Mother by Joshua Nguyen $4.99

Republic of Gum by Jacob Stovall $10

Notebooks

Field Notes – Letterpress-style notebooks $12.95, Assorted role playing game notebooks $16.95 each

New Quimby’s 30th Anniversary T-shirt!

Check out our new shirt! This year we turn 30 and we’re excited to unveil one of a few fun things we’re unveiling this year, including this new t-shirt!

Happy anniversary, us! To celebrate, Quimby’s employee/cartoonist extraordinaire Caroline Cash designed this rockin’ white shirt, a take on both Chris Ware’s Quimby character as featured on our logo.

These shirts were printed locally, by our friends at Strange Cargo.

Thanks to our tshirt model, Quimby’s fiction goblin and vintage clown James Webster.

 

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Sticker & patches from Arcane Bullshit, Saenz & more!

Zines

Behind the Zines #12 August 2021 A Zine About Zines edited by Billy McCall $3

Walt Loved Zines #4 by Lynne Monsoon $4

East Village Inky #64 by Ayun Halliday $3

Three By Five Series Abstract #1 vol 1 by Jonah Bitautas $7

zines by by Jamie Kadas, $10 each: Fat Chick’s Guide to Embracing Your Beauty & Fat Chick’s Attempt at Managing Anxiety

Junk Drawer #12 Mask Zine by Eric Bartholomew $2

Electric Word Life Writing on Prince 2016-2021 by Jack Riedy $20

Comics & Minis

Bubbles #11 Independent Fanzine About Comics and Manga by Brian Baynes & friends $8

Its Okay To Be Sad by Kevin Budnik, various issues $4

Big Arm NRG Go #1 Round 1 by Chuck Kaslow $8

Tin Crown: Free Couch by Bobby Sims $10

Good Lord My Daughter’s a Radical! by Flynn Kinney $3

2 comics by Madeleine Aguilar: Here I Am Where Are You $8, Interior Exterior $5

Cankor Anamnesis #1 by Matthew Allison $5

Quarantine Funnies: Jokes For Shut Ins and Kids by Damon Charles Bishop $4.50

Graphic Novels

Sensor by Junji Ito $19.99

DIY

It’s Your Funeral!: Plan the Celebration of a Lifetime Before It’s Too Late by Kathy Benjamin $16.99

Fiction

Unreliable Narrator Meets The Public Domain by Jesse Mack $5

Magazines

In These Times august $4.95

Raw Vision summer $16

ID Magazine june $13.99

RFD #186 summer $11.95

The Progressive aug-sept $5.95

Mother Jones october $8.99

For the Kiddies

Bug Club by Elise Gravel (D+Q) $17.95

Chap Books

Shitty Breakup Poetry by Al Nelson $5

Zine Club Chicago Online: You’re In My World Now Edition with Special Guest Host Chris Sienko, August 24

Aug ’21
24
7:30 pm

Zine Club Chicago Online: You’re In My World Now Edition
with Special Guest Host Chris Sienko
7:30 p.m. CT Tuesday, August 24 on Zoom
Free!

This month, Zine Club Chicago is really excited to welcome their first guest host, Chris Sienko! This zine enthusiast has been invited to lead a discussion about an intriguing theme he’s devised: Zines that take you into another world, especially through idiosyncratic writing or topics.

Many zines are created to convey information, whether they contain reviews, interviews, recipes, or travel dispatches. But sometimes, no matter the topic, you’ll find a zinemaker who just doesn’t follow any of the conventions of information delivery — they have a personal language of their own, their own shorthand or catchphrases that you don’t hear anywhere else. These types of zines are like a strange roadside attraction where you pull off to see something new and find a person who has created their own world and stored it in little glass jars and on display tables, offering you a glimpse for just a buck or two.

Grab your zines that are worlds unto themselves, BYOS(nacks), and join in on Zoom for Zine Club Chicago Online: You’re In My World Now Edition with Special Guest Host Chris Sienko at 7:30 p.m. CT August 24!

Chris Sienko has been writing about noise, music, and all the permutations in between for over 25 years. He’s the co-author of As Loud As Possible, a large-format noise zine published in 2010. He’s written for such print and online publications as Muckraker, Blastitude, Dead Angel, Vulcher, Fördämning, and the forthcoming third issue of a zine simply called “untitled.” He’s written liner notes and feature-length interviews for such bands and solo projects as Ceramic Hobs, Sudden Infant, Sewer Election, The Rita, Jason Crumer, and LHD. Chris covered experimental music performances in Chicago via the Gapers Block music site, Transmission from 2007 to 2015.

When not ruining his hearing, Chris is a movie buff and has hosted the Stiff-Legged Film Festival, an obsessive, endurance-defying, money-losing event out of his home since 2001, a high point being a three-weekend, fifty-film 1970s sci-fi dystopia fest in 2016. Chris lives in North Park with his wife, Wendy, a 15-minute walk from the NEIU campus and, hopefully soon, from screenings by the Chicago Film Society.

** Zoom info ** Zine Club Chicago wants to make sure that its events are a safe space, so 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. CT Monday, August 23 (the day before the event). You’ll receive the Zoom link via email by 11 p.m. CT 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.