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Zines

Stuff From Fiddlers Green!: Place of the Song Dream: The Animal Spirituality of Kenneth Grahame by Clint Marsh and Timothy Renner $6, Purple Thread: The Supernatural Doom of Oscar Wilde by Nina Antonia, Illustrated by Nathaniel Winter-Hebert $10, Tales From Fiddlers Green vol 1 edited by Susan Redington Bobby $15

Someplace Special, edited by Aim Ren Beland and Cynthia E. Hanifin $10

The Most Unwanted Zine by Liz Mason $5

Razorblades and Aspirin #12 $8

KerBloom #149 In Which I Interview My Nine-Year-Old by Artnoose $2

Freaky 4 Farley: The Many Moods of Motern Quaterly by Leor Galil $5

Weeds Never Die by Heather Anacker $4.99

Gay Ass Dishes $8

Not Like You Zine #9 $8

zines by Lucy Isadora: Hail King Kong: A King Kong Fanzine $5, X Zine X

Adita #12 A Day in the Air $4

Somnambulist #35 Tax Deductible Rome $5

Crystal Ephemera: A Prosaic Mosaic by Cold Prick Lee $5

zines by Kat Crow: Things Listed Things Understood, We Will Survive, Universe Next Door and more.

Wishbone #10 $6

Macedonia Disposables Oct 2017 – May 2018 by Nick Ramsay $12

Halcyon Days: A Group Zine by Dirty Art Press $12

One VVoman Show Juxtaposition by Kassandra Pinero $12

Skurt Cobain #3 A Zine About the 90s by Jolie Ruin & friends (Riot Grrrl Press) $2

Weird Tales: The Iconic Pulps, Chicago Connections by Joe Muszynski $4

Never Step In the Same River Twice: The South Branch of the Chicago River Across Time and Space by Annie Howard $5

Image Not Found: Captions to Burning Men Photos $5

Quit Your Job And Eat Pizza #4 & #5 $2 each

Comics & Minis

Bubbles #10 An Independent Fanzine About Comics and Manga $8

Love and Rockets Magazine #10 by Gilbert and Jamie Hernandez $4.99

Cuts of Me #1 by Nacho Nova $8

Bird Comic #1 & #2 by Ruby Giles Carter $6 each

New Wave Comics Presents #17 and #18 $1.50

Magic Depressive #38 A Words Issue by Cacciola $3

Graphic Novels

My Begging Chart by Keiler Roberts (D&Q) $19.95

Chartwell Manor by Glenn Head (Fantagraphics) $29.99

Poison Flowers and Pandemonium by Richard Sala (Fantagraphics) $29.99

Fictional Father by Joe Ollmann (D&Q) $24.95

Across the Tracks: Remembering Greenwood, Black Wall Street, and the Tulsa Race Massacre by Alverne Ball & Stacey Robinson $15.99

Pizza Punks by Cole Pauls (Conundrum) $15

The Comics Journal #307 winter spring 2020 Comics and Animation $16.99

Flash Forward: An Illustrated Guide to Possible (and Not So Possible) Tomorrows by Rose Eveleth $24.99

Black Star by Eric Anthony Glover & Arielle Jovellanos $24.99

The Wonderful Year Book by Becca Taylor $24.95

Art & Design Books

Sign Painting: A Practical Guide to Tools, Materials, and Techniques by Mike Meyer & Better Letters $35

Politics & Revolution

How to Think Like an Activist by Wendy Syfret $14.99

The Economic Case for LGBT Equality: Why Fair and Equal Treatment Benefits Us All by M. V. Lee Badgett $18

On Violence and On Violence Against Women by Jacqueline Rose $30

Postcolonial Astrology: Reading the Planets through Capital, Power, and Labor by Alice Sparkly Kat $17.95

Remembering the Armed Struggle: My Time with the Red Army Faction by Margrit Schiller (PM Press) $19.95

The Operating System: An Anarchist Theory of the Modern State by Eric Laursen (AK Press) $16

Essays

What We Don’t Talk About: Sex and the Mess of Life by Joann Wypijewski $19.95

F*ck It, I’ll Start Tomorrow: A True Story by Action Bronson $26

Hotel: My Cancer Story by P. Guizzetti $5

Mayhem & Outer Limits

The Phantom Prince: My Life with Ted Bundy, Updated and Expanded Edition by Elizabeth Kendall $16

Fiction

Juneteenth: A Novel by Ralph Ellison $25

Poetry & Chap Books

Lydia Tomkiw Poems, edited by Dan Shepelavy (Universal Exports of North America) $15

Music Books

Boyz n the Void: a mixtape to my brother by G’Ra Asim $24.95

Magazines

Tape Op #143 june july $5.99

Para Llevar #1 Gjusta $20

Shindig #114 april $13.99

The Baffler #57 $14

Jacobin #41 $12.95

AnOther Magazine vol #40 $22.50

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Popular Pandemics Fall 2025 $10

Broken Pencil #91 $7.95

Journal of Yokai Studies vol 1 #1 May 2021 $4

Pizza Dream by Erin J Watson $1

New Stuff from Radix Media, all $12 each: BINT by Ghinwa Jawhari, No Prohibido by Nikki Cardona, Solar Grid #1 by Ganzeer

Comics & Minis

Freaky #5 Take Five by Andrew Goldfarb $5

Hell Is In Your Heart by Steven Thomas $8

Traffic Jam by Julia McBride Menzel $11.99

Graphic Novels

Cyclopedia Exotica by Aminder Dhaliwal (D+Q) $24.95

Stone Fruit by Lee Lai (Fantagraphics) $24.99

Scumburbia by Sam Grinberg $10

The Metabarons: The First Cycle by Alejandro Jodorowsky, Illustrated by Juan Gimenez (Humanoids Publishing) $39.99

Politics & Revolution

King Kong Theory by Virginie Despentes $15

Outer Limits

American Brujeria: Modern Mexican American Folk Magic by J. Allen Cross $18.95

Ancient Language of Sacred Sound the Acoustic Science of the Divine by David Elkington

UFOs and the Deep State: A History of the Military and Shadow Government’s War Against the Truth by Kevin D. Randle $22.95

Fiction

Dawn by Octavia E. Butler $16.99

Vernon Subtex 3 A Novel by Virginie Despentes $18

Music & Film Books

Roxy Music’s Avalon by Simon Morrison (33 1/3 series) $14.95

Duran Duran’s Rio by Annie Zaleski (33 1/3 series) $14.95

Sing Backwards and Weep: A Memoir by Mark Lanegan $17.99

Mine’s Bigger Than Yours: The 100 Wackiest Action Movies by Christopher Lombardo & Jeff Kirschner $29.99

Magazines

Cinema Scope #86 spring $5.95

In These Times may $4.95

Skeptical Inquirer vol 45 #3 may june $5.99

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Zines

Women In Print #6 by Jennifer Trontz $8

Highgate Eye #7 by Dean Squishman $4

Three Seasons by Monica Sheets $12

In Time by Matt Albertini vol 1 $10

Special Delivery by Adel Souto $4

Cotton Fetish by Robert L. Pepper $6

Comics & Minis

Acid Nun #1 by Corinne Halbert $10

Vacuum Decay #3 April 2021 by Harry Nordlinger, Corinne Halbert & more $10

Violet Goes Into Business by Maisy Byerly $5

Why I Don’t Visit You Part 1 by Shaun Levin $9

Rimeski Comics #16 $3

Graphic Novels

The Secret to Superhuman Strength by Alison Bechdel $24

Billionaires: The Lives of the Rich and Powerful by Darryl Cunningham (D+Q) $24.95

Vulnerability Is My Superpower: An Underpants and Overbites Collection by Jackie E. Davis $14.99

Art Books

Bestiary of the Anthropocene: Hybrid Plants, Animals, Minerals, Fungi, and Other Specimens by DISNOVATION.ORG and Nicolas Nova (Onomatopee) $34.95

Art of Yogisa: Fantasy Illustrations From an Enchanted Bookshop by Yogisya (PIE Books) $29.95

Politics & Revolution

Immunodemocracy: Capitalist Asphyxia by Donatella Di Cesare (Semiotext(e)) $15.95

Disobey!: A Philosophy of Resistance by Frederic Gros $19.95

Nothing Personal: An Essay by James Baldwin $18

Dangerous Ideas: A Brief History of Censorship in the West, from the Ancients to Fake News by Eric Berkowitz $29.95

Mayhem & Outer Limits

Inside a Magical Lodge: Traditional Lodge Methods for Modern Mages by John Michael Greer $29.95

Sacred Symbol Magic: Harness Their Power for Mind, Body, and Soul by Sarah Bartlett $18

In Ghostly Japan: Japanese Legends of Ghosts, Yokai, Yurei and Other Oddities by Lafcadio Hearn $12.99

Fiction

Make Shift: Dispatches from the Post-Pandemic Future by Gideon Lichfield (MIT) $19.95

Utopia Avenue: A Novel by David Mitchell $18

Pizza Girl by Jean Kyoung Frazier $16

Sin Eater: A Novel by Megan Campisi $18

DIY Book

Out of the Chrysalis by Tesia Watkins $20

Magazines

ID Magazine #362 summer $18.50
Wire #446 april $12.50
Harpers Magazine may $7.99
Mojo #330 $11.99

Other Stuff

LGBTQIA Moon Mission Patches by Michelle Marie Murphy $8

Zine Club Chicago Online: Zine Bingo II Edition, May 25th

May ’21
25
7:30 pm

A red-and-blue infographic flyer with the cartoon image of people playing bingo and text that reads: “Zine Club Chicago: Zine Bingo II Edition; Online! Free!; Zoom info on quimbys.com; 7:30 p.m. CDT Tuesday, May 25”

Zine Club Chicago Online: Zine Bingo II Edition

7:30 p.m. CT Tuesday, May 25 on Zoom

Free!

We had such a good time playing Zine Bingo last month that we’ve decided to keep the game rolling into our May event! We’ll be covering the squares on our zinecentric bingo board that we didn’t get to during the first round, so plan to bring zines that fit the categories that aren’t already checked off.

Our twist on the classic game gives everyone an opportunity to go on a scavenger hunt through your own zine collections. Check out our updated bingo card, grab your zines, BYOS(nacks), and join us on Zoom for Zine Club Chicago Online: Zine Bingo II Edition at 7:30 p.m. CT Tuesday, May 25!

Here’s how our version of Zine Bingo works: We’ve created a zinecentric bingo card that you can find in this post and at quimbys.com. (We’ll all be using the same card for the game; feel free to print it out or download it). Each square on the card represents a category of zines that you might have in your collection; for example, a how-to zine or a zine that makes you laugh.

Before we meet, search your collection and find zines that correspond to the categories in the unchecked squares on the card. (If a square has a check mark on it, that means we’ve already discussed that category during our April event.) The card’s rows are marked with the letters Z-I-N-E-S. Each square also has a number in the corner. Y’all are welcome to bring zines that correspond to as many of the unchecked squares as you like, or to not bring zines at all and join us just to hang out.

During our event, we’ll randomly pull bingo balls marked with the letter and number of each unchecked square on the bingo card. Folks with a zine that fits the category in the square we’ve called will then tell us about the zine they brought. We’ll keep going until we get a collective full-card bingo! (Everyone is a winner at Zine Club Chicago).

** Zoom info ** We want to make sure that our online 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. CDT Monday, May 24 (the day before our event). Zine Club will email you the Zoom link by 11 p.m. CDT on 5/24.

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 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: https://zineclubchicagoshoutouts.spread.name/

More info on InstagramTwitter, and Facebook: @zineclubchicago

Facebook event here.

A handmade Zine Bingo board with a description of a different category of zine in each square; some squares are checked off.