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Mushroom Playing Cards $5.95
Zines
Popular Pandemics Fall 2023 & Spr 2024 $10 each
Touring America: Up the Punx $2
This Is My Dad Oct 20 by Mary Miller & Jan 2021 $5 each
Tranquil Tank by Gwen Murray $2.50
Standardized $10
zines by by JF Gamber:
Pencil Revolution #14 Big Penicillin Pencil Obituaries Issue $5
Depression Ain’t the Sads: A Zine About Mental Health $3
From Jam Doughty: Snow Breakers $1, Sludgin’ Through the Dream Swamp: Some 2020 Dreams $7
Gray Flag #2 by Chris Auman $4.50
Smile by Justin Matthew (Dirty Art Press) $12
Double Nickels On Evergreen Terrace $5
Comics & Minis
Spiny Orb Weaver #1 by Miss Jaws, Tana Oshima, Neil Brideau (Radiator) $10
How Did We Get Here by Sterling Bartlett $7.50
Crusher Loves Bleeder / Bleeder Loves Crusher Bleeder, Words by Thomas Stemrich and art by Patrick Keck $6
Graphic Novels
Brainfazer by Kevin Barry $15
Mishima: Manifesto de Lâminas by various (Chili Com Carne) $20
DJ Nobita: Early Works 2002 split with Apesar de Nao, Estar Estou Muito (Chili Com Carne) $20
Sbrng Gabba Gang Gabber Reconstruction of the Universe by Riccardo Balli $20
Nodoa Negra $15
Thud by Mikael Ross (Fantagraphics) $16.99
Music
Horror Stories: A Memoir by Liz Phair $18 – Now in soft cover.
Fiction
Ghost Variations: One Hundred Stories by Kevin Brockmeier $27
Reality and Other Stories by John Lanchester $26.95
Essay
Confident Women: Swindlers, Grifters, and Shapeshifters of the Feminine Persuasion by Tori Telfer $16.99
Mayhem
Bobby BlueJacket: The Tribe, The Joint, The Tulsa by Michael P. Daley (First to Knock) $20
Chap Books
Overwhelming Tales of the Bizarre and Mundane by Eric T. Roth $5
Magazines
Skeptical Inquirer vol 45 #2 march/april $5.99
Wire #444 february $12.50
Mother Jones april $8.99
Bitch #90 $12.95
Bust #124 spring $7.99
Juxtapoz #217 $9.99
Horror Hound #87 $6.99
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Zines
East Village Inky #63 by Ayun Halliday $3
Movie Watchlist: 20 from 2020 by Johnny Misfit $3
Types: Considering Queer Elderhoods: A Pressing Concerns Book Mark by Sara Lautman $7
Punks Around #14 Mental Health $5
zines from Tom Orr: Reign of Slime, Sinking and I Don’t Know Where Towards, Dopamine Milkshake: Some Works
Hallogallo #1 by Kai Slater $3
Overload #1 by Dylan MacDonald $10
Diary of My Glow Up: A Workbook For Breaking Through Creative Blocks and Glowing Up by Annie Hex $10
Beyond the Concrete Milkshake: Tactics for Defeating Media Trolls and Grifters by Kit O’Connell $8
Comics
Dean Street Parts #6 & #7 by Al Burian and Oska Wald $4 each
Pisser! by John Sammis $5
Grixly #51 & #52 by Nate McDonough $3 each
San Francisco Bay Area Mr. Tech Bro Pageant by Katt Kelly $5
Knowledge Wisdom and Art by Dedrick $4
Comics by Karla Paloma: Bambi and Nick, Dildo Fish by Karla Paloma, Burned Meat, Texas Bar
Outer Limits
Fractals: On the Edge of Chaos by Oliver Linton $14
Fiction
Detransition, Baby: A Novel by Torrey Peters (One World) $27
Magazines & Lit Journals
Fantastic Man #32 Fall 2020 Winter 2021 $20
Harpers Magazine march $7.99
International Review #165 International Communist Current Winter 2021 $3
Granta #154 Winter 2021 $19.99
As a sponsor for Chicago Zine Fest, we’re posting this letter from CZF on the QuimBlog here to help get the word out, which we hope is helpful info. CZF writes:
We hope you are doing well and staying safe!
We are almost one year into the global pandemic. This has been a difficult time for so many people in our community and throughout the world. We miss our in-person connections, but out of an abundance of caution we have decided to postpone Chicago Zine Fest to May 14th, 2022.
We are thrilled to see that frontline workers, medical personnel, educators, seniors, and many others are now able to receive their COVID-19 vaccinations. When we postponed last year’s zine fest to May 2021, we had hoped that we would be in a better, safer place than we were at the start of 2020. As far as a large in-person festival with more than 3,000 visiting attendees such as ours is concerned, we’re not there yet.
The good news is that our venue was able to roll over the date for our in-person fest to May 14, 2022, along with our deposit on the rental. We hope that this extension gives exhibitors, attendees, and guests the time they need to get vaccinated, make travel arrangements, and prepare for a large in-person event.
If you were accepted as an exhibitor for 2020’s Exhibition Day, your acceptance and table fee will carry over for the 2022 fest. We thank you for your understanding and patience, and we hope you’ll be able to join us in 2022. On a practical note: Almost all the funds we received from table fees went into the deposit we’ve already paid for the venue. We have limited cash on hand right now, and not a lot of fundraising opportunities on the horizon. If you need to cancel your spot, we will accommodate a refund, but if you are able to hold your table for 2022, we would appreciate it. If you would like to cancel your table and be refunded your table fee, please email us at chicagozinefest@gmail.com.
Unlike last year’s fest, we will not be scheduling any digital programming for May 2021. We have decided to reserve our energy to focus on the safety, well-being, and interests of the CZF community for next year’s fest.
There are still lots of ways to participate in zine culture! Please continue to show your support to independent artists and creators by buying their work directly from the artist, or from one of the many independent bookstores throughout the city (links to local indie bookstores, including those that carry zines, below). You can celebrate artists during this time by sharing their work online and on social media, as well. There’s also a monthly zine club held online by one of our organizers, Cynthia, and Quimby’s Bookstore: More info at at Instagram, Twitter, and Facebook: @zineclubchicago
We look forward to the day when we are able to see you again in person, across an exhibitor’s table, at a volunteer meet-up, or at one of our fun afterparties!
If you have any questions, please email us at chicagozinefest@gmail.com
We can’t wait to see you in 2022!
Indie bookstores in Chicago that carry zines:
Quimby’s Bookstore: https://www.quimbys.com/
Uncharted Books: https://www.unchartedbooks.com/
Build Coffee: https://buildcoffee.org/
Space Oddities: https://spaceoddities.org/
Women & Children First: https://www.womenandchildrenfirst.com/Other indie bookstores in Chicago:
57th Street Books
Bookie’s
Bookends and Beginnings
Bucket O’Blood Books and Records
Inga Bookshop
Madison Street Books
Myopic Books
Open Books
Pilsen Community Books
Powell’s Books
Roscoe Books
Semicolon
Seminary Co-Op Bookstore
The Book Cellar
The Dial Bookshop
The Wicker Park Secret Agent Supply Co.
Underground Bookstore
Volumesyour Chicago Zine Fest organizers,
Alex, Anna, Cynthia, Elliott, and Emily
Zine Club Chicago now has merch! Check out the new Zine Club Chicago embroidered patches — perfect for embellishing battle vests, denim jackets, and totes bags full of zines! These 2.75-inch round iron-on patches, which were custom-made by Tim Tucker of Uranian Threads and feature the circular ZZC logo designed by Anna Jo Beck, are exclusively available at Quimby’s Bookstore now, while supplies last! There’s only had a handful made, so once they’re here in the store you’ll have to jump on it soon now if you want one!
Zine Club Chicago will also be giving away a patch for FREE — along with an official ZCC mini cowbell, a copy of our collab zine, and fun mystery snacks — in the first-ever Zine Club Chicago raffle! Here’s how to enter:
Buy something (anything you like!) in person or online at Quimby’s Bookstore (1854 W. North Ave) between the dates of Feb. 24 and March 15, 2021. (You can peruse the shop’s wares at quimbys.com).
Email a copy of your Quimby’s receipt to zineclubchicago@gmail.com by 9 p.m. CST Monday, March 15. Please include your name and include any dietary restrictions when it comes to snacks.
One winner will be randomly selected during the Zine Club Chicago Online: Is It a Zine? Edition Zoom event on Tuesday, March 16. You don’t need to attend the event to win — Zine Club Chicago will get in touch if you can’t make it that evening and your name is pulled. You can arrange to either have your package sent or leave it at Quimby’s for you to pick up.
More info about Zine Club Chicago at Instagram, Twitter, and Facebook: @zineclubchicago
Good luck!