If you head down to the basement of Chicago Comics, past the endless rows of back issues and vintage titles waiting to be priced, you’ll find 15 white boxes. They contain a pretty standard collection of 60s and 70s comics—Thor, Conan the Barbarian, X-Men, MAD magazine. But these comics have a special allure. They belonged […]
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After 25 years, Quimby’s is an Ever Evolving Bastion of Freakdom
The local destination for independent zines and comics brings back its original owner for a visit and publishes an oral history on its silver anniversary.
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Call for submissions: The return of the Reader’s Comics Issue
Curated by Eric Kirsammer, owner of Chicago Comics and Quimby’s, the deadline for submissions is February 6.
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Culture Vultures: 80s music nostalgia and novels, graphic and otherwise
In-the-know Chicagoans tell the Reader what they’re watching, reading, and seeing