The second annual print edition of Knee-Jerk Offline(VOL 2) is heading to the printers and will be available soon. As we did last year, we’re running a Kickstarter campaign to help with some of the printing costs.
I hope you’ll more so look at this as a way to pre-order the new issue. All donations over $3 will be rewarded with various tokens of our appreciation. But starting with a donation of $13 you will receive a copy of the new issue along with a PDF version of our recent chapbook publication, The Risk-Taking Gene by Steve Tomasula. For $15, you’ll receive print versions of both books. And so on and so on; the more you’d like to help, the more great rewards we’d like to send you.
Jon, Steve, and I would greatly appreciate any help you can offer and hope that you’ll enjoy the work that we and all of our amazing contributors have put into VOL 2 and Knee-Jerk’s other projects as a thank you for your generosity. We’d also like to ask those of you with social media accounts if you would be willing to help spread the word with a link or a blog post. Of course, if you’re unable to help this time around, we’ll completely understand and will still love you and give you a big hug next time we see you!
For those unfamiliar with Kickstarter, it’s a website designed to help fund creative projects. Knee-Jerk set a goal ($500) of what we need to cut our out-of-pocket costs to produce the new issue and a date by which we hope to be funded. If we make the goal by midnight on February 25th, we’ll receive funding, minus 5% that goes to Kickstarter. If we don’t reach our goal by that point, the money donated will not be taken out of your account and we do not receive funding.
This volume features nearly 200 pages (including color illustrations) of all new content from some of our favorite writers and artists:
Schuyler Anderson
Kyle Beachy
Tom Bissell
Michael Capozzola
Trinie Dalton
Sarah Rose Etter
Pete Gamlen
Kelsey Heinrichs
Gary Lutz
Adam McOmber
Dinty W. Moore
Hal Niedviecki
Ben Percy
Shann Ray
Rowland Saifi
Adam Schuitema
Drew Shannon
Brenda Sieczkowski
Patrick Somerville
Chris L. Terry
Donna D. Vitucci
Leni Zumas
Your donation will help put a huge dent in our printing costs. In return for your generosity, we have several gift offers (including free print issues and copies of our chapbook by Steve Tomasula), listed to the right. Even the smallest donation will be greatly appreciated and help get this magazine into bookstores and in your hands. Thank you!
Casey Bye is Memphis-bound! Our Co-Founder, Arts & Media Editor, and Cutie-in-Residence will be taking his talents to the birthplace of Crunk by mid-July. To celebrate the time we’ve spent with our bespectacled human beatbox, Knee-Jerk is hosting a going-away reading, featuring fellow Casey Bye-enthusiasts Noelle Hufnagel, Geoff Hyatt, Mason Johnson, Jacob Knabb, Lauryn Allison Lewis, Simon A. Smith, Leah Tallon, Ben Tanzer, Chris Terry, and Brandon Will! We’ll also have music from DJ Jeremy Alvarez! Feel free to pass this along to friends, neighbors, and whoever else you think might like watching Casey re-enact his tiger pee story. It starts at 7:00 pm Wed. July 6th at
Tonight is Mary Hamilton’s last Quickies! before moving to L.A. Come cry with us. And drink and listen to 20 amazing readers and drink and then cry some more.
7:30pm at the Innertown Pup, 1935 W Thomas, Chicago
Readers:
Jac Jemc
Natalie Edwards
Jill Summers
Steve Tartaglione
Kathleen Rooney
Scott Stealey
Brandon Will
Caroline Picard
Robyn Pennacchia
Patrick Somerville
Melanie Datz
Jessi Lee Gaylord
Zach Dodson
Jonathan Messinger
Robbie Q. Telfer
Tim Kinsella
Toby Bengelsdorf
Jacob Knabb
Tim Jones-Yelvington
Dave Snyder
and probably more!
We’ve never seen Battlestar Galactica. So we decided to parody it. Send us your parodies to the KNEE-JERK ESSAY & CHAPBOOK CONTESTS! DEADLINE: JUNE 30TH, 2011.
