Showing posts with label Quimby's. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Quimby's. Show all posts

Friday, July 11, 2014

Zine Workshop

People always ask me if there are zine workshops. Seeing as how July is International Zine Month, I'm doing one on (this) sunday (July 13th) at 1pm at the Chi Prc. Discussion, instruction, demo, then talk about selling it. Boom.

This workshop is in conjunction with Quimby's Bookstore teaming up with The Chicago Publishers Resource Center (CHIPRC) to bring you zine-y activity. CHIPRC will be hosting zine events during the month.

In this is a monthly hands-on workshop offered by CHIPRC, learn a bit about zines and the local self-publishing community. Discussion, instruction, demo, then talk about selling it.

$3 donation. All skill levels and ages welcome!


The Chicago Publishers Resource Center (CHIPRC), at 858 N. Ashland Avenue, strives to build community and foster creativity by providing access to the space, education, and resources necessary to create and self-publish literary and visual work. And of course, if you make a zine there, you can always come consign it at Quimby’s! Join and support the center, and as a member you will receive discounts for using equipment, workshop registration and more. Or become a CHIPRC volunteer and give back even more. Their summer calendar features drawing activities, discussion, open studio and more! More info at chiprc.org.

More info:


Event post on Facebook   and/or    http://www.quimbys.com/blog/store-events/

Also, I'll be leading a zine reading club at the ChiPRC on July 24th!

Friday, January 27, 2012

Caboose #8: reDraft Picks


So I finished Caboose #8: reDraft Picks. It's $1.00. You can get it at Quimby's. I'm pasting in the nice review my co-worker, the talented artist and writer Edie Fake wrote of it on The Quimby's Bookstore website, quimbys.com: 

Yes, yes, yes! Liz put the staples in Caboose #8 just SIX HOURS before the bell tolled on 2011 (official year of the Revenge of Print, fyi)...so this is may win the superlative title for- "Last Zine of the Revenge of Print" -and it should win a lot of other things too.  Reworking thee creme de la creme of her Masonic Blog, Redraft Picks maximalizes the laughs in what I think we can call Liz's "signature mashup" of celebrity culture, pop mayhem and life lessons. Wanna learn about what happens at a Britney Spears release event minus Britney Spears?  An expert and even semi-scientific system of measuring the entertainment value of a Hollywood biography? How Quimby's got all that vintage porn? Caboose has got answers, baby. -EF