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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.
At CAKE FRAME, a benefit for the Chicago Alternative Comics Expo hosted by BRAIN FRAME, the performative comix reading series, 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, on April 12th, 2013.
Video thanks to Burton Bilharz.
At CAKE FRAME, a benefit for the Chicago Alternative Comics Expo hosted by BRAIN FRAME, the performative comix reading series, 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 on April 12th, 2013.
Video thanks to Burton Bilharz.
At CAKE FRAME, a benefit for the Chicago Alternative Comics Expo hosted by BRAIN FRAME, the performative comix reading series, Andy Burkholder read an occasionally wry, occasionally abstract, and always aesthetically precise series of vignettes in the lives of people named Chris, aptly entitled: Chris, on April 12th, 2013.
Video thanks to Burton Bilharz.
CAKE FRAME, a hybrid fundraiser event for the Chicago Alternative Comics Expo (CAKE) organized by the performative comix reading series BRAIN FRAME, was a lot of fun and a great success. 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, on April 12th, 2013.
Video thanks to Burton Bilharz.
Drawing on authentic New Guinea mythology, Jim Trainor gently narrated the story of the Ugliest Woman in the World while paging through a projected sketchbook filled with simple, haunting illustrations at Brain Frame 11 on March 23rd, 2013.
Video thanks to Jack Wensel [editing], Tyson Torstensen [sound], Jenna Caravello [camera] and Ryan Gleeson [camera].
Bill Cleveland, with the help of Alance Ward on trumpet and Tyson Torstensen on brooding synths, simpered and grimaced his way through his suspense comic The Bernie Merdersteins, about three shape-shifting cabaret musicians, at Brain Frame 11 on March 23rd, 2013.
Video thanks to Jack Wensel [editing], Tyson Torstensen [sound], Jenna Caravello [camera] and Ryan Gleeson [camera].
Krystal DiFronzo not-so-fondly remembered a chilly ancestor and the expensive vintage coat she left behind, for Krystal to wear in, wear out, and wear to Brain Frame 11 on March 23rd, 2013.
Video thanks to Jack Wensel [editing], Tyson Torstensen [sound], Jenna Caravello [camera] and Ryan Gleeson [camera].
Ian Endsley reversed the genders, made up names, and otherwise mildly fictionalize the story of his own conception at Brain Frame 11 on March 23rd, 2013.
Video thanks to Jack Wensel [editing], Tyson Torstensen [sound], Jenna Caravello [camera] and Ryan Gleeson [camera].
Otto Splotch debuted a fresh excerpt from his graphic novel Stink Helmet, preceding it with a meta-poem and pornography at Brain Frame 11 on March 23rd, 2013.
Video thanks to Jack Wensel [editing], Tyson Torstensen [sound], Jenna Caravello [camera] and Ryan Gleeson [camera].
