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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
| 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
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Zine
Alaska by P. Timer $15
Stuff from Fluke Publishing: Off Into Nowhere: The Limo Zine Anthology by Matt Limo & friends $2 + Embrace the Hate $2
No Bad Whores, Just Bad Laws, Support Hose Years Three & Four $10
International Whores Day Zine by Kinky Out $10
zines by Jilly Foo: Big Spike and Mighty Moe vs the Golden Wasteland $6, Tiny Zines $5
Seasons 1 & 2: Twin Peaks and Seinfeld mashups by Kristen Morrison (iS Press) $10 each
Welcome to Chili’s #2 $15
Clearline #2 $20 & #3 $25
Comics & Minis
F #1 Comic by Kevin Huizenga $8
Comics by Orr: Burrow $7, Lunch Rush $6
Solar Grid #4 by Ganzeer (Radix Meda) $12
OBL-V-OUS #2 & #3 Bad Art for Bad People by Mae Luxe $10 each
Graphic Novels
Farewell Brindavoine by Tardi (Fantagraphics) $19.99
Music Books
Common Tones: Selected Interviews with Artists and Musicians 1995–2020 by Alan Licht (Blank Forms Editions) $25
Long Players: Writers on the Albums that Shaped Them by Tom Gatti $22
Hallucinations from Hell: Confessions of an Angry Samoan by Dr. Gregg H. Turner, Gary Panter, Dave Lebow and Mindy Turner (Rare Bird books) $24
All I Ever Wanted: A Rock ‘n’ Roll Memoir by Kathy Valentine (U of Chicago Press) $18.95
You Are Beautiful and You Are Alone: The Biography of Nico by Jennifer Otter Bickerdike $31
Film Books
Leatherface vs. Tricky Dick: The Texas Chain Saw Massacre As Political Satire by Martin Harris (Headpress) $22.95
Politics & Revolution
Making Revolution: My Life In the Black Panther Party by Field Marshall Don Cox (Heyday) $16
DIY(ish)
Zener Cards by Pierluca Zizzi (Llewellyn) $19.95
Oh Hell No: And Other Ways To Set Some Damn Boundaries by Dani Katz & Sara Ahmed $14.95
Chilling Cocktails: Classic Cocktails With a Horrifying Twist by Jason Ward $12.99
Fiction
Trip City by Trevor Miller (Velocity Press) $20
ELPASO: A Punk Story by Benjamin Villegas (Deep Vellum Publishing) $15.95
Clark and Division by Naomi Hirahara (Soho Crime) $27.95
Skateboarding
The Most Fun Thing: Dispatches from a Skateboard Life by Kyle Beachy $27
Magazines
Adbusters #156 sept/oct $14.95
New Noise Magazine #58 $4.99
The Monthly Review july/aug $14
Mojo #333 aug $11.99
Kinfolk #40 $18
Cinema Scope #87 summer $5.95
Ugly Things #57 $9.95
Lit Journals & Chap Books
Bridge vol 21 #1 $35
Searching For Love, Finding a City Poems by EA Gregor $20
Chinatown Romeo – Poems by Michael Chang $10
Saudade A Love $5
Sex Guides & Culture
Pussypedia: A Comprehensive Guide by Maria Conejo and Zoe Mendelson $28
Other Stuff
Fancy Fauna themed Notecards $15.95, Notebook Set $14.95, Graphite Pencils $14.95
Last Call, Cats Playing Cards by Arna Miller Ravi Zupa $14.95
Murder of Crows Journal by Corrado Roi (Llewellyn) $13.95
Llewellyn’s Witches’ Spell-A-Day Almanac 2022 $13.99 + Llewellyn’s Witches Datebook 2022 $13.99
Stickers by Sarah Mirk!
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Stickers, pins patches! From Siobhan Gallagher, John F. Malta, Band of Weirdos, Secret Headquarters, Silver Sprocket, GodBlessGenerica and more!
Zines
Punkgirldiaries Blogzine #7 $17
Visitor In Myself #8 by Nichole $2
Hong Kong 2019-2021 by Ho Tam $8
From Elvis In Porthcawl by Abby Kearney and Daniel McMillen $7.50
New Frontiers by John F. Malta $10
Comics
Comics by Siobhan Gallagher $10-$15: Contain Yourself #3, Gag Reflects, Gross Girls Club
Plus postcards too!
Backed Up Salvage Job (2nd edition) by Ryan Ehresman $3
Graphic Novels
Queen of the Ring: Wrestling Drawings by Jaime Hernandez 1980-2020 by Jaime Hernandez and Katie Skelly (Fantagraphics) $24.99
Parable of the Sower: A Graphic Novel Adaptation by Octavia E. Butler, illustrated by John Jennings $16.99 Now in soft cover.
Politics & Revolution
2 books by Paulo Freire! Pedagogy of the Heart, Pedagogy of Hope $24.95 each
Fiction
New Teeth: Stories by Simon Rich $27
Detective Detective by David McCoubrey $20
I Hold a Wolf By The Ears: Stories by Laura Van Den Berg $17
Music Books
Heavy Duty: Days and Nights In Judas Priest by K.K. Downing $17.99
Humor? Or something?
Subpar Parks: America’s Most Extraordinary National Parks and Their Least Impressed Visitors by Amber Share $22
Food Books
Collected Coffee Bags by Andrew Barton $16
Outer Limits
Hekate: Goddess of Witches by Courtney Weber $16.95
Magazines
Upping The Anti #22 Journal of Theory and Action $13
Wire #449 july $12.50
Shindig #116 june $13.99
Port #28 spring summer $27.99
Fantastic Man #33 spring summer $20
Lit Journals & Poetry
Chicago Review vol 64 #1-3 $20
How Do I Get to the Cloud by Irene Doukas Behrman $12
Kids Stuff
The Penguin Cafe at the Edge of the World by Nurit Zarchi, illustrated by Anat Warshavsky (Fantagraphics) $14.99
Wake Up, Sleepyhead! by Levin Kipnis, illustrated by Noam Weiner (Fantagraphics) $14.99
