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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 at the benefit event CAKE FRAME on April 12th, 2013.
Photos thanks to Gillian Fry.
Paul Nudd enlisted his brother Ed Nudd to design the soundtrack for his installation and performance, consisting of a slideshow of fly drawings, two monitors looping putrid videos, and Paul’s other ‘brother,’ Barry Nudd, an American-flag draped dummy smoking from the eyes and mouth, at the benefit event CAKE FRAME on April 12th, 2013.
Photos thanks to Gillian Fry.
Alyssa Herlocher read issue three of her comic Kenneth Loves to Hate Animals For No Reason, with Heather Lynn playing Kenneth and Justin Marc Lloyd operating music and slideshow, while Alyssa wore a giant cat helmet and tossed around props like a paper-mache blunt and several bags of Ham Holes at the benefit event CAKE FRAME on April 12th, 2013.
Photos thanks to Gillian Fry.
CAKE FRAME, the Brain Frame/CAKE benefit show, was an enormous success. We raised over $2,500 towards chairs, tables, honorariums, and printed matter for the 2013 Chicago Alternative Comics Expo!
In between comix performances from Andy Burkholder, Alyssa Herlocher, Jeremy Pettis and Paul Nudd, our host Lyra Hill auctioned off dozens of original artworks by Chicago cartoonists. Emma Rand, Brain Frame’s astronomically talented intern, played Vanna White while musicians Stephen Ptácek and Alex Inglizian improvised accompaniment.
Photos thanks to Gillian Fry.
Bill Cleveland debuted his comic The Bernie Merdersteins, about a shapeshifting band of cabaret musicians, at Brain Frame 11 on March 23rd, 2013.
Photos thanks to Gillian Fry.
Otto Splotch read poetry and gathered pornography before premiering a new excerpt from his upcoming graphic novel Stink Helmet at Brain Frame 11 on March 23rd, 2013.
Photos thanks to Gillian Fry.
Marieke McClendon invented comics karaoke, performing her illustrated version of Pretty Woman with a fog machine and “laser light show” at Brain Frame 11 on March 23rd, 2013.
Photos thanks to Gillian Fry.
Ian Endsley took his audience back to the mid 80’s for the story behind his own accidental conception at Brain Frame 11 on March 23rd, 2013.
Photos thanks to Gillian Fry.
Jim Trainor, reading from a notebook on an overhead projector, spoke and sang a story, spun from real New Guinea folklore, about the ugliest woman in the world and her hyper-violent mishaps at Brain Frame 11 on March 23rd, 2013.
Photos thanks to Gillian Fry.
Krystal DiFronzo read her new comic Black Sheep Coat, about her grandmother’s coat and her grandmother - a woman as warm and cozy as the coat itself, which is to say, not very - at Brain Frame 11 on March 23rd, 2013.
Photos thanks to Gillian Fry.
