Eamon Espey and Lisa Krause have been traveling around the country performing their shadow puppet/cardboard costume/mystic sci-fi masterpiece Ishi’s Brain, and their final performance is tonight, at BRAIN FRAME 12. It’s a great honor to host them.

Tomorrow at BRAIN FRAME 12Meghan Lamb will combine The Cars, Unsolved Mysteries, and spoken words in a mannar you’ve definitely never seen before. Don’t miss it.

This Saturday at BRAIN FRAME 12, Thorne Brandt will perform an interactive video and musical comic about a magical drumstick.

This Saturday at BRAIN FRAME 12, Nate Beaty will read a comic, complete with small animations, musical selections, and possibly a bit of time lapse photography, about his past life among the break dancing troup the Liberty Crew Breakers.

This Saturday at BRAIN FRAME 12, Anne Elizabeth Moore will present a humorous lecture on the patent history of sanitary napkin disposal bags, entitled: Sanitary Napkin Disposal Bag: The Movie!

This Saturday at BRAIN FRAME 12, Kevin Budnick will read a series of autobiographic comic strips about the diagnosis of an eating disorder.

The Brain Frame store has been updated! Poster collaborations with Aaron Renier (Brain Frame 11) and Clay Hickson (Brain Frame 12) are now available online, as well as a lot of other stuff by Lyra Hill, the woman behind Brain Frame, who is writing this right now in the third person. This is a print of Mr. Square at the Pit of Despair, modeled by exclusive hand model Emma Rand.

The Brain Frame store has been updated! Poster collaborations with Aaron Renier (Brain Frame 11) and Clay Hickson (Brain Frame 12) are now available online, as well as a lot of other stuff by Lyra Hill, the woman behind Brain Frame, who is writing this right now in the third person. This is a print of Mr. Square at the Pit of Despair, modeled by exclusive hand model Emma Rand.

Brain Frame 12 is a week from today!

Saturday, May 18th, 8pm, 643 W 31st Street, second floor, $7.

At CAKE FRAME, a benefit for the Chicago Alternative Comics Expo hosted by BRAIN FRAME, the performative comix reading series, Jeremy Pettis, responding to audience prompts and accompanied by musicians Alex Inglizian and Stephen Ptácek, illustrated ‘Tardiness Due To Constipation,’ ‘Space Pony Wrangler,’ and ‘Mega Clit’ on an overhead projector on April 12th, 2013.

Video thanks to Burton Bilharz.