Quimby’s and Community CAKEPOPS Panel

What an honor! The first CAKE POPS video is up at the CAKE Chicago YouTube page, starring Quimby’s Bookstore employees past and present: Mike Centeno, Corinne Halbert, Caroline Cash & Liz Mason. Come watch us talk about the store, the comics community of Chicago, & the large quantity of duct-taped consignment binders behind the counter.

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CAKEPOPS is a series of digital check-ins with CAKE (Chicago Alternative Comics Expo) Creators about topics of interest. This installment of CAKEPOPS is our very first!

Join Quimby’s Bookstore manager and zinester Liz Mason and cartoonist-employees past and present Corrine Halbert, Caroline Cash, and Mike Centeno as they discuss the history of Quimby’s Bookstore, as well as it’s impact on the Chicago comics community!

Panelists:
Mike Centeno (he/him) https://www.mikecenteno.com/
Corinne Halbert (she/her) https://corinnehalbert.com/
Caroline Cash(she/her) https://carolinecashcomics.com/
Liz Mason(she/her) https://lizmasonisawesome.com/

Panel coordination by Aim Ren
Video editing and animation by Sage Coffey
CAKEPOPS Graphics by Andrea Bell

WHAT IS CAKE? The Chicago Alternative Comics Expo (CAKE) is a weekend-long celebration of independent comics, inspired by Chicago’s rich legacy as home to many of underground and alternative comics’ most talented artists– past, present and future. Featuring comics for sale, workshops, exhibitions, panel discussions and more, cake is dedicated to fostering community and dialogue amongst independent artists, small presses, publishers and readers. As a completely volunteer run organization, your tax-deductible support is vital to CAKE’s growth and financial stability. If you enjoyed our CAKEPOPS series, please consider donating here: tiny.cc/donateCAKE

To learn more about CAKE and upcoming CAKE events, visit our website: cakechicago.com

Zine Club Chicago Online: How-To Zines Edition, Tues, June 29th

Jun ’21
29
7:30 pm

Zine Club Chicago Online: How-To Zines Edition

with Special Guest Anna Jo Beck

7:30 p.m. CT Tuesday, June 29 on Zoom

Free!

This month, we’re thrilled to be celebrating a special guest: One of our founding members (and also our incredibly talented designer) Anna Jo Beck! Anna will discuss Broke, Not Broken: Personal Finance for the Creative, Confused, Underpaid, and Overwhelmed, her newly released first book that has its origins in her popular how-to zine about personal finance.

Everyone is invited to share your favorite how-to zines, as well! Please join us for Zine Club Chicago Online: How-To Zines Edition with Special Guest Anna Jo Beck at 7:30 p.m. CT Tuesday, June 29 on Zoom.

Broke, Not Broken, a compassionate, friendly, and fun guide to personal finance, is being published in Summer 2021 by Microcosm Publishing. (Snag your copy from ZCC’s sponsor, Quimby’s Bookstore, which you can PRE-ORDER HERE!) Anna also runs a Zine-a-Month subscription through Patreon and publishes Zine Fiend, a free e-newsletter about zine culture. You can find links to Anna’s work here: linktr.ee/annajobeck

** 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. CT Monday, June 28 (the day before our event). We’ll email you the Zoom link 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 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 at ZCC social media channels: @zineclubchicago

Facebook event link: https://www.facebook.com/events/590645888507102/

Links

Anna’s linktree: https://linktr.ee/annajobeck

Anna’s portfolio: annajobeck.com

Buy Anna’s zines: https://annajobeck.storenvy.com/

Read Anna’s zines online for free: https://issuu.com/annajobeck

Buy Anna’s book (though Quimby’s will have copies too): https://microcosmpublishing.com/catalog/artist/anna-jo-beck

Anna’s Patreon/Zine-a-Month subscription: www.patreon.com/annajobeck

Zine Fiend: https://tinyletter.com/zinefiend

New Stuff This Week

 

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Zines

Strange Tapes Hamburger Dad: Special Edition Zine by Scott R. Miller & friends $5

Rain Barrel #2 april by Jordan Sea $3

Religion, Politics, Sex vol 2 The Family Issue by Robert T. Glen $6

I Think You Might Write a Body Once and Awhile: Passive Aggressive Vintage Postcards 1909-1949 by Robert T. Glen $6

GenderFail stuff: Urgent Publishing After the Artist’s Book: Making Public in Movements Towards Liberation by Paul Soulellis $24, Manifesto Profit for Survival by Be Oakley $12, Some Definitions, Some Thoughts, Some Assertions, Radical Softness as a Boundless Form of Resistance by Be Oakley $16

In Your Chest in Your Gut Everywhere All Over by Caitlin McCann $7

zines by Jilly Foo: My My Moemon $2, Hallowzine 2020 $5 & more.

The Match #122 spring $3

Learn English with Mr. Wood by Antek $2

These Are All Inadequate #3 by Jesse Maximum $3

Great Rock N Roll Dwindle #2 by No One $4

Reglar Wiglar #27 by Christopher Auman $8

Flux in Green Air $24

Comics & Minis

Vixen Black $2

Myrodemus #2 by Finn Walker $24.99

Prey Pray by Stokes Breanan And Lei $6

Campfire Comics and Stories Biannual january $10

Get To You by Gabe Mason Howell $10

Rust Belt Review #1 Comics Anthology $10

Graphic Novels

Heart Shaped Tears: Art, Comics and Dark Secrets by Abby Jame (Silver Sprocket) $24.99

The Gift by Zoe Maeve (Conundrum) $18

Super Magic Forest by Ansis Purins $16.95

Crash Site by Nathan Cowdry (Fantagraphics) $24.99

Scoop Scuttle and His Pals: The Crackpot Comics of Basil Wolverton, edited by Greg Sadowski (Fantagraphics) $29.99

It’s Life as I See it: Black Cartoonists in Chicago, 1940 – 1980 edited by Dan Nadel (MCA/NYRC) $24.95

Fiction

Pharmako-AI by K Allado-McDowell (Ignota) $19.95

Hollow by B. Catling $17

Music & Movies Books

Kraftwerk: Future Music from Germany by Uwe Schütte $18

Fallopian Rhapsody: The Story of the Lunachicks by The Lunachicks with Jeanne Fury $18.99

More Fun in the New World: The Unmaking and Legacy of L.A. Punk by John Doe & Tom DeSavia $16.99

Blaxploitation Cinema: The Essential Reference Guide (2nd Edition, Revised) by Josiah Howard (FAB Press) $29.95

Essays

In a Car On a Road Going to a Place by Caitlin McCann $24.99

There Plant Eyes: A Personal and Cultural History of Blindness by M. Leona Godin $28

DIY

Witches Guide to Wildcraft: Using Common Plants to Create Uncommon Magick by JD Walker $17.99

Magazines

Lost In #24 Veggies $13

Yes Magazine #98 summer $6.50

Mojo #331 june $11.99

Monocle #143 $14

Harpers Magazine jun $7.99

Bust #125 summer $7.99

Wire #447 $12.50

Offscreen #24 $22

Chap Books

You Make Me So Mad Sometimes by Caitlin McCann $12

I’m Home and Theres Nothing by Dustin Struckman $5

New Stuff This Week

 

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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

New Stuff This Week

 

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Zines

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