Mingle Part 2: Chicago in Seattle

While on the west coast, zinester Johnny Misfit and writer Jill Summers will also read in Seattle Wednesday Oct 3 at Left Bank Books 92 Pike Street. Joining them will be Seattle's Neely Bat Chestnut (half of the grrl run press Mend My Dress). If you're in the area stop on out at 7:30 and say hi!

Zinesters mingle: Chicagoans visit PDX Sept 27

 Join local and Chicago zinesters for a night of reading Thursday Sept 27. Traveling from Chicago, Johnny Misfit (Wawrzaszek) and Jill Summers will join local Portlanders Alex Wrekk and Keith Rosson.. Misfit is an organizer of Chicago Zine Fest and will be reading from his newest zine Field Manual: Human Body (released Sept 22). Summers' writing has been published in Ninth Letter, Decomp, and Monkeybicycle among others and was the winner of the 2012 Paper Darts Short Fiction Award.  Rosson is a graphic artist (who designed the flyer for the event) and writer publishing the zine Avow, whose work has appeared this year in Menda City Review and Northwind. Wrekk is a long time organizer of Portland Zine Symposium and publisher of Brainscan. Her latest venture is the opening of the Portland Button Works a store front specializing in self made buttons, magnets, zines and more. 

Readers will have zines for sale. Stick around and chat with them after the event. Stop by Portland Button Works 1322 N. Killingsworth Street, 8pm.

Two Cookie Septmeber Reading

As you can see by the lime green image, we are back. Check out the lineup this time. We got:

Lauryn Allison Lewis (author of Solo/Down), Bobby Evers, Taylor Cowan, Brelyn Gerard, and zinester Nicki Yowell. Sounds good even without the mention of free cookies. Drop on in to the Hungry Brain, 2319 W. Belmont at around 9pm on Sept 4th. We'll close out the bar, or at least till all the cookies are eaten.

flyer created by Pete DiCamillo

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.