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.
On September 15, 1991, Steven Svymbersky opened the Wicker Park zine and comic-book shop Quimby's (named after the
local-art mag he'd created six years earlier in Boston) on the corner of Damen and Evergreen. Vegetarian haven Earwax Cafe had opened in the neighborhood just a year earlier, indie coffeehouse Urbis Orbis was going strong, and artists were taking over warehouses in the then run-down part of town.…
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.
On September 15, 1991, Steven Svymbersky opened the Wicker Park zine and comic-book shop Quimby's (named after the
local-art mag he'd created six years earlier in Boston) on the corner of Damen and Evergreen. Vegetarian haven Earwax Cafe had opened in the neighborhood just a year earlier, indie coffeehouse Urbis Orbis was going strong, and artists were taking over warehouses in the then run-down part of town.…