Two Cookie Minimum
celebrates its 4-year anniversary on Tuesday, July 1. The series has aimed to
bring together authors, self-publishers, comics artists, musicians, and various
visual forms. True to form, the anniversary reading will host a variety of talent
for this special occasion.
Performers Include:
Writer Kevin Kern, two
separate comics readings from illustrator and children’s book publisher Leslie
Perrine, and comics artist and teacher Keiler Roberts, Junk Drawer
zine publisher Eric Bartholomew with an interactive Odds and Ends game,
plus sister duo Jill Summers and Susie Kirkwood with a shadow puppet
show.
Back in 2010, Two Cookie
Minimum held its first reading at Fritz Pastry. Since then, the series has held
39 shows featuring more than 200 readers (including a few out of town guests).
Two Cookie Minimum has hosted fundraisers for local organizations, partnered
with other reading series and literary magazines, hosted theme nights, and even
co-hosted an off-site reading in Los Angeles. In 2013, we released Cookie
Crumbs, in collaboration with cartoonist Alex Nall, a sketchbook of drawings
depicting the readings. We’ve been recognized in various articles on Gapers
Block, Time Out Chicago, Newcity, and Chicago Literati.
The night will be hosted
by reading curator Johnny Misfit. The show begins at 9pm at our lovely
home, Chicago’s most comfortable bar with a killer jukebox, the Hungry Brain,
2319 W. Belmont. And as we’ve done for years, there will be free cookies.
