Zinesters are waking up, breaking down their tents on North Ave., cooking vegan sausages over stereo stoves, and queuing up at the rope line to storm the doors at noon to clear out our $3 one-sheet zines!

Indoctrinate your family with gifts from our extensive collection of weirdo publications!

Our landlord, and Quimby’s previous owner and Chief Oddities Officer, Eric Kirsammer made us this ultra on brand window display for our “capitalist bullsh!t holiday”.

Come camp out Friday night so you can storm the doors at noon on Small Business Saturday and brawl over our last copy of Caboose 14!

QUIMBY’S HAS SO MANY COMICS!

We specialize in true indie DIY comics – often made by the artist! “Comics no one has, and none that everyone has” we don’t carry any mass market stuff. We DO HAVE all your artist made queer personal narrative driven inexplicable riso printed obscure diy-or-die fare!

Quimby’s is CLOSED M-W this week 11/17-11/19 to rip out all this nasty carpet!

Thanks to a generous donation tied to store improvements we are able to replace this vile disgusting carpet with a more mopable floor!

Come help us break in our new floor starting Thursday!

GREAT news!

A generous donation tied to store improvements has afforded us the super exciting – and long overdue –opportunity to rip up Quimby’s disgusting carpet!!! 🙌🏽

We will be closed Monday the 17th through Wednesday the 19th. 😢

Come visit us Thursday the 20th to help break in our new floor!

Reading RIGHT NOW!

Justin D’Acci is a Chicago-based clown, artist, and puppeteer. His writing has appeared in Issue 0: Eroticism (Veilance Press)

Quimby’s After Hours: Veilance
at Quimby’s Bookstore
1854 W. North Ave Chicago

Veilance is a small surrealist press run by writers, for writers.

Get all your spooky season reading and Halloween party favors at Quimby’s!

We’re full up on Halloween and horror zines and comics!

Get ‘em before they’re replaced with a bunch of Christmas CRAP! BOOOOoo!

Quimby’s is at the Chicago Printer’s Guild Publisher’s Fair repping the work of our store employees Angel xoxo (All Drafts, Angeleic Confessions), Peter Miles (is PRESS) and the Dean Emeritus of Quimby’s Liz Mason (Caboose Zine)

We’ll at the Chicago Cultural Center all day, Saturday 10/25 11-6.

The 7th Annual Chicago Printer’s Guild Publishers Fair is coming up! Guild member and Quimby’s partner Peter Miles Bergman will be there with some of his own work and the work of Quimby’s staff and alumni.

Chicago Cultural Center, Sat. October 25th, 2025 / 11am–5pm. Free & Open to the Public

Quimby’s has gone full analog! F#Ç< Spotify!

We now have Herbert our janky 1970’s United Audio turntable hooked up with a selection of bangers from the collections of the Quimby’s Crüe!

Come through and make a request!