Friday 12
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If you’ve created an all-comic-strip newspaper, where else to distribute it but at local nightclubs? The debut issue of Wunderkind, brainchild of comic maven Steve Lundin, gets feted tonight at Shelter, 564 W. Fulton. Things get under way at 9; there’s an open bar till 10. Admission is ten bucks. Call 226-2555 for more information.
Apparently words like pastiche and amalgamation aren’t enough to do Stumpy’s Gang . . . A Comic Mutation justice; publicist Jim Casey describes the play as “a horror-comedy sporting elements of science-fiction horror films, Grand Guignol, Wagnerian opera, and 50s kiddie TV shows, featuring live actors interacting with amazingly lifelike “creature’ puppets and giant state-of-the-art video effects, including a 1940s-style Looney Tunes-inspired original animated cartoon.” Sounds scary. The show reopens tonight at the Strawdog Theatre, 3829 N. Broadway. Tickets, by means of an incredibly weird “spin the giant Twinkie” setup, range in price from free to $8. The show starts at midnight and runs Fridays and Saturdays for at least the next couple of weeks. You can call 973-4493 or 528-9889 for more information.
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