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Two Cookie Minimum celebrates its second year on the streets Tuesday August 7th.

Readers will include:
Ben Spies (no more coffee zine),
Natalie Edwards,
L.B. (truckface zine),
Susie Kirkwood & Jill Summers (doing a shadow show),
plus more TBA.

Hosted by Johnny Misfit.
At Hungry Brain 2319 W. Belmont,  9pm.

There most definitely will be cookies. Party hats optional.

Concisely magazine Publishes Final Issue

Concisely magazine is released its final issue, #7 Summer 2012. The focus has been short prose under 500 words and it's packaged like a zine. Great run by Dan Copulsky, editor who invested his time and energy to put this out over the years. Get a copy here or look for it in selected stores in the Chicago area.

Cover art by Els Baum

The Amazoning Spyturd Man

Ok so yes, I saw this movie, i mean comic book movies are coming a long way and its about time they are getting just desserts. It was like, the 80 and 90s movies were the silver age stuff and now we are rocking. So Spyturdman, well, guess what, it was the best in the franchise thus far. Why? Good casting (Dennis Leary, Sally Field, Martin Sheen, etc) and the young kids, well they were young enough (not no toby mac who was 30 in the roll of spidey). Good CGI, actually first movie to place you in the POV of the superhero webcrawler). There was a twist on the story, but, you know, what revamp doesn't mix it up. Go see it. If you love Batman, its like that is he was a mutant minus the Sherlock Holmes shit (which the BBC series Sherlock is balls awesome).
Think the Ramones: spider man, spider man, friendly neighborhood spiderman, in his web, dah dah dah .

Toucan Cookie Minimum

Two Cookie Minimum and Toucan Literary Magazine present:

Toucan Cookie Minimum

Join the Two Cookie Minimum reading series July 3rd for a night of reading promoting the July release of the Toucan Literary Magazine.

Featured readers include:
Greg Baldino, T.W Townsend, and Nikki Dolson.

With music by Kat Kidwell.

Plus the magazines editrices Liz Baulder and Laura Rynberg will read submissions from previous issues.

Hosted by Johnny Misfit.

Arrive at the Hungry Brain 2319 W. Belmont at 9pm.
 
The toucan literary magazine, published since 2008, has made readers bust guts, sob buckets, and recoil in horror. The July issue will be its second online-only issue. The magazine, which has a focus on publishing prose and poetry, is curated by two Columbia College graduates.

With out fear, there will be cookies present and ready for consumption.

Two Cookie Minimum is back Tue June 5 with Cookies and Cake, a fundraiser for the first ever Chicago Alternative Comics Expo! Readers include: Corinne Mucha, Sara Drake, Marian Runk, Ezra Claytan Daneils and Leslie Perrine.

As always the reading will be at our home the Hungry Brain 2319 W Belmont, hosted by Johnny Misfit. Stop by at 9pm for some cookies and fingers crossed cake too! A $5 donation is asked, proceeds go to C.A.K.E!
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Two Cookie Minimum presents Industry Night

Join industry professionals from all areas of the literary and publishing community for a night of reading Tuesday May 1st.

Featured readers include:

• Rob Duffer (freelance writer for Time Out Chicago, New City, Chicago Reader, the Examiner)
• Ben Tanzer (founder and spokesperson for This Zine Will Change Your Life inc)
• Wly Villacres (political correspondent for the Examiner)
• Sarah Dodson (executive director of MAKE magazine)
• Daniel Majid (founder and editor of the Logan Square Literary Review)
• Naomi Huffman (an editor at Newcity and Trilling magazine)

Hosted by Johnny Misfit.
Stop by Hungry Brain 2319 W. Belmont at 9pm. As usual, there will be cookies at the event.

Two Cookie and P. Fanatics Team Up!

April is bringing a classic style team up to Two Cookie (think Marvel, think Punisher and Spider man and Wolverine, which is 3 but thats a killer team up). My friend Mason at P Fanactics presented this idea a while back and after hosting Karaoke with him, I felt a bond that we needed to explore further.



So April 3rd, Two Cookie Minimum will return to the Hungry Brain 2319 W Belmont with our typical mix of zinesters and emerging writers. The cast will include: Maggie Ritchie, Laura Szumowski (zoo mouse key press), Dave Snyder, Kieth Rosson (avow zine from Milwaukee), Jill Summers, and Adam Drent.

On April 8th, P Fanatics takes over its home at Cole's Bar 2338 N. Milwaukee with an all around entertainment extravaganza. The lineup includes Lindsey Hunter, Matt Rowan, the father son duo of Fred Sasaki and Fred Sasaki, musical comedy by Rich Salamander, plus the house band Hawaiian Death Folk.

Both events will be hosted by Mason Johnson and Johnny Misfit. Plus each reading will feature the irreverent Dan Shapiro kicking things off.

We are also working on making some zines to commemorate the occasion. One will be available at each reading, so collect both.

This will go well, we promise. If not, there will be free cookies.