Zine Club Chicago ONLINE: I Got It at Quimby’s! Edition 9/29

Published on September 1, 2020 0 Comments
Sep ’20
29
7:30 pm

 

7:30 p.m. CST Tuesday, September 29 on Zoom

Free!

This month, our beloved Quimby’s Bookstore turns 29! To celebrate this anniversary of the best zine shop on the planet, we’ll be joined by a special guest: Steven Svymbersky, who founded Quimby’s in Chicago and now owns Quimby’s NYC. We’ll also be commemorating Zine Club Chicago’s second year with Quimby’s as our home base and sponsor.

Nearly three decades ago, Quimby’s opened in Wicker Park. Since then, the shop has offered a vast selection of zines, comics, and other unusual publications, along with championing the self-publishing community in Chicago and beyond.

At Zine Club Chicago Online: I Got it At Quimby’s! Edition, we’ll be discussing our favorite self-published works that we’ve snagged at the store over the years. If you’ve made a zine at Quimby’s (at a Zlumber Party or Zinemaking Hangout, perhaps?), acquired a title in a trade with another zinemaker there, or collaborated with someone you met in the aisles, please bring those zines to share, as well. BYOS(nacks) and join us on Zoom for a great conversation!

Please note our new event start time: 7:30 p.m. CST!

** Zoom info ** We want to make sure that our online Zine Club events are a safe space, so we won’t be releasing the Zoom link and password publicly. If you’d like to attend, please email zineclubchicago@gmail.com to RSVP by 5:30 p.m. Tuesday, Sept. 29. We’ll email you the Zoom link and password one hour before the event begins.

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 and created our logo, and also made this awesome Zine Club Shoutout database of zines people talk about at Zine Club!

Steven Svymbersky published zines under the Quimby’s name from 1985-1991, opened Quimby’s Bookstore in 1991, lived in Amsterdam from 1997-2016 where he worked as the head technician for Boom Chicago Improv theater, and in 2016 moved to Brooklyn where he opened Quimby’s Bookstore NYC.

More info: on Instagram: @zineclubchicago

Facebook event: https://www.facebook.com/events/680699006122772/

Thanks to Megan Kirby for this great illustration of August’s meeting.

 

New Stuff This Week

Published on August 29, 2020 0 Comments

Zines

East Village Inky #62 by Ayun Halliday $3

Strange Tapes #7 by Scott R. Miller $7

Bootch Please by Milo $2

Razorblades and Aspirin #10 summer $8

A Sandwich for You by Eila Miller $15.50

Zines by Nick Disabato: Welcome to Dongletown, In Defense of Cooking In Defense of Baking $8 + more.

Zines by Keith Herzik: Opthalmic Out Rage $5, Attractive Nuissance $10, Amnesia Bomb $10

Comics & Minis

Dogs by Tim Brown $10

Restless Bones by Shannon M. Reeves $15.50

Graphic Novels

Vision by Julia Gfrörer (Fantagraphics) $16.99

World War 3 Illustrated #51 The World We Are Fighting For by Seth Tobocman & friends (AK Press) $15

Berlin Collected by Jason Lutes (Drawn and Quarterly) $39.95

Spellbound: A Graphic Memoir by Bishakh Som $18.99

Marmalade Hour by AD Sarjeant $25

Seize the Moments #2 by Steve Wallet $3.50

Politics & Revolution Books

ReTargeting Iran by David Barsamian and other contributors (City Lights) $14.95

Fiction

FKA USA: A Novel by Reed King $17.99 – Now in soft cover.

Dogcatcher and the Fox by JD Porter $15.99

Nicotine Chronicles by Lee Child (Akashic Books) $15.95

Disorder: A Political Fable by Leslie Kaplan (AK Press) $12

Music Books

Now Is the Time to Invent! Reports from the Indie-Rock Revolution 1986-2000 by Katherine Spielmann and friends (Verse Chrous Press) $29.95

How To

Makeup Is Not (Just) Magic: A Manga Guide to Cosmetics and Skin Care Book by Ikumi Rotta $13.99

Magazines

She Shreds #20 $15

Bitch #88 fall $9.95

Chap Books & Lit Journals

Highgate Eye #5 by Dean Squishman $4

I Don’t Know What an Oboe Can Do by Eric Tyler Benick $10

September Quimby’s Newsletter Out Now!

Published on August 29, 2020 0 Comments

September Quimby’s Newsletter Out Now!

Feels Good Man Sneak Preview Screening + Filmmaker Q&A, Aug 28th-29th

Published on August 25, 2020 0 Comments

Join us for an online sneak preview screening + filmmaker Q&A of the 2020 Sundance-Award winning doc Feels Good Man on Aug 28-29 and select Quimby’s Bookstore to receive a portion of proceeds as well as make a donation, along with the opportunity to buy a signed copy of artist Matt Furie’s Mindviscosity. Only 250 tickets available per showtime at feelsgoodman.watch .

This weekend’s sneak preview showtimes will be the first and only way movie fans can watch this film before it opens in theaters and prior to its VOD (video on demand) release.

 

More info!:

@feelsgoodmanfilm for Instagram/Facebook
@feelsgoodmandoc for Twitter

 

P.S. Astute Quimby’s historians will remember beloved director Arthur Jones’ comics consigned here in 2002: 900 Lb Gorilla and Magic Pants when he was but a young comics-maker, as well as his book Post-it Note Diaries. Further, said astute Quimby’s historians will also recall artist Matt Furie’s comics and books sold at our fine establishment as well, featuring such titles as Boys Club, Dungeon Family and Night Riders. Quimby’s thanks Arthur, Matt and friends for including Quimby’s in this endeavor!

 

Derf Backderf presents Kent State, Quimby’s Virtual Event 9/24

Published on August 24, 2020 0 Comments
Sep ’20
24
7:30 pm

On May 4, 1970, the Ohio National Guard gunned down unarmed college students protesting the Vietnam War at Kent State University. In a deadly barrage of 67 shots, 4 students were killed and 9 wounded. It was the day America turned guns on its own children. Using the journalism skills he employed on his celebrated graphic novels My Friend Dahmer and Trashed, Backderf has conducted extensive interviews and research to explore how mistakes, political rancor, and paranoia built to a deadly crescendo on an American campus. Kent State: Four Dead in Ohio (Abrams ComicArts), to be published by the 50th anniversary of the tragedy, is a moving and troubling story about the bitter price of dissent — as relevant today as it was in 1970.

“Backderf delivers a provocative, heartbreaking account of the days leading up to the infamous tragedy of May 1970… His expertly crafted chronicle of this defining moment in U.S. history serves as a deeply moving elegy for the victims.” – Publishers Weekly, starred review

Derf Backderf is the bestselling, award-winning author of My Friend Dahmer and Trashed, and recipient of the prestigious Robert F. Kennedy Journalism Award for political cartooning. His weekly comic strip, The City, appeared in more than 100 newspapers for almost twenty-five years. He lives in Cleveland, Ohio.

** Zoom info ** We want to make sure that our online event is a safe space, so we won’t be releasing the Zoom link and password publicly. If you’d like to attend, please email info@quimbys.com to RSVP by 5:30pm CST Thursday, Septemeber 24th. You’ll get an email you the Zoom link and password one hour before the event begins.

For a limited time, purchase this book and get a free author signed bookplate! While supplies last!

For more info on book, go to abramsbooks.com.

Check out Derf’s social media:

Twitter @DerfBackderf

IG @derf_backderf

derfcity.com

Here’s the Facebook invite for this event.

Thursday, September 24th  7:30pm CST ON ZOOM.

Free Event

For publicity inquiries please contact Maya Bradford (mbradford(at)abramsbooks(dot)com)/212-229-7188