The May Quimby’s Bookstore Newsletter available now!
| May ’20 |
| 15 |
| 6:00 pm |
Chicago Zine Fest 2020 will take place online on May 15th and 16th, 2020. Here’s how you can participate in #CZF2020:
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Share your zines (or other people’s zines!) on social media with the hashtag #CZF2020 on Friday, May 15th and Saturday, May 16th. There’s no registration or limit to who can participate, so long as you’re a zine maker or enthusiast.
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Tune into CZF’s digital programming: Readings, workshops, and panel discussions (more details at chicagozinefest.org). We’re proud to announce a Quimby’s Bookstore behind-the-scenes video tour Sat, 5/16 4pm Central on the CZF Youtube channel!
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- Join CZF’s online Zinester Directory: Submit an entry about you and your zines to be included, a spreadsheet of active zinesters to browse in perpetuity! Fill out the form to be included here. Check out the directory itself here.
More info at ChicagoZineFest.org.
#CZF2020 Poster by Caroline Cash
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Quimby’s is proud to be a sponsor of the 2020 Chicago Zine Fest, a celebration of small press and independent publishers, with an annual festival of workshops, events, and the big expo day where 250+ zinesters sell and trade their zines. All the events are free and open to the public. The 11th annual Chicago Zine Fest will take place May 15-16, 2020 at Plumbers Hall (1340 W Washington Blvd).
Poster by Andrea Bell.
Applications for half table spots will be open 1/13/2020 – 1/20/2020 and table spots will be chosen through a lottery. Application here.
More info about Chicago Zine Fest at ChicagoZineFest.org.
Banned Book Club by Ryan Estrada, Hyung-Ju Ko and Kim Hyun Sook (Iron Circus) $15
Zines
Bizarre Fact Files by Gordon Meyer, $2 each: #1 Bucktown, #2 Wicker Park, #3 Notable Neighbors, #4 Notorious Neighbors
Butch Nor Femme Pack by Lynne Monsoon $20
Drugs
Ultimate Guide to Mushrooms: How to Identify and Gather Over 200 Species Throughout North America and Europe by Guillaume Eyssartier (Skyhorse) $24.99
Art Books
Catlady: A Love Letter to Women and Their Cats by Leah Reena Goren by Leah Reena Goren (Prestel) $19.95
Magazines
…And yes, we’re still selling the Qustomized Quimby’s Quarantine Zine Package $25 – You want to buy this for your mom for a Mother’s Day gift that will totally come after Mother’s Day, right?
| May ’20 |
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| 7:00 pm |
7 p.m. Tuesday, May 26 Central Time.
Free! On Zoom!
Movies, television shows, YouTube videos, Instagram Live, and oh so many Zoom events … we all like to watch, and we’ve all been looking at screens a lot more than usual since the coronavirus crisis began. We miss seeing your faces and sharing the zines we love, so in May we’re taking Zine Club Chicago ONLINE!
This month, we’ll be discussing self-published works about the moving images that keep us riveted to big and small screens alike. Grab your favorite zines, BYOS(nacks), and join us on Zoom for a fun conversation!
Email at zineclubchicago@gmail.com about the Zoom link (which will be available soon).
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 hosted by Quimby’s Bookstore.
* Zoom link 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 p.m. Tuesday, May 26. We’ll email you the Zoom link and password one hour before the event begins.
Thank you to Zine Club member Anna Jo Beck for designing our flyer this month!
Facebook event: https://www.facebook.com/events/949559022140588/
p.s. need a jpg because you’re posting this somewhere that only takes that format? Here ya go!
We’re still closed to the public but we continue to enjoy the responses we’re getting for our Qustomized Quimby’s Quarantine Zine Package (tell us what you like, pay $25+ postage, we send you zines). The notes people leave tickle us so.
Help save Chicago, one t-shirt at a time. Barrel Maker made a truly great Quimby’s shirt and $10 of each sold shirt goes toward Chicago-based small businesses. You can only order it through 5/31, so don’t sleep on it!
Zines
QUARANZINE Assortment of 12 Issues by Marc Fischer and friends $20
Chicagoing Straight to Hell! The Unofficial Secret Insider Guide to Nonexistent Chicago Tours by Mr. Dan Kelly $2
Women In Print #4 by Jennifer Trontz $8
Ker-Bloom #143 by Artnoose $2
Dead Dads Club #1 edited by Katherine Leung $12
Reclaim Your Shit by Sarah Poppy Jackson and Kione Kochi $10
Comics & Minis
Rimeski Comics #5 edited by Lucius Wisniewski $3
Hypopompia: A 911 Story by Kelly Schoen and Jack Currin $20
Fiction
New Bad News Stories by Ryan Ridge $16.95
The Happy Prince and Other Tales by Oscar Wilde $8.95
Magazines
Broken Pencil #87 Rethinking Death $7.95
The Baffler #51 $14
