News & Events & Meetings

Poetry & Punk

A Reading

June 23rd, 11 a.m.

Readers TBA. A poetry reading from (mostly) musicians or others involved with that amorphous mass called the punk community. In conjunction with Plan-It-X Fest.

Benjamin Busch

Memoir Reading

July 7th, 7 p.m.

Author Benjamin Busch read from his memoir Dust to Dust.

Steve Lafler

Comic Presentation & Reading

July 17th, 7 p.m.

Cartoonist Steve Lafler teams up with CO2 this July to publish Ménage a Bughouse. a 400 page volume collecting Lafler's trilogy of Bughouse graphic novels, Bughouse, Baja and Scalawag, previously released on the Top Shelf imprint.
 
Bughouse is the story of Jimmy Watts and his band of jazz playing bugs. The character driven story is set in a stylish insect-noir world, invoking an indigo-toned Manhattan of the early 1950s. Be-bop is king, and the alluring substance “bug juice” threatens to destroy the players against a backdrop of romance and intrigue.
 
Lafler puts the creative life and the pitfalls of addiction under the microscope in this tour-de-force collection, tossing his name into the ring for contention as the Great American Cartoonist.
 
“I was inspired by The Autobiography of Miles Davis as well as the movie adaptation of William Burroughs Naked Lunch” quips Lafler. “The post-war Be-bop jazz and Beat literature scenes of New York called to me as an apt setting for an extended work”.

Critic Rob Clough named Bughouse to his top 100 graphic novels of the first decade of the new century at number 22.

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The Midwest Pages to Prisoners Project now meets at 118 S. Rogers Suite #2
Visit: www.pagestoprisoners.org or email: mwpp@pagestoprisoners.org
Book and monetary donations should still be dropped off at Boxcar Books.
Mondays: 7-9pm The Midwest Pages to Prisoners Project (during school year)
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