Your support is important to us.
Click here to join the Reader Membership Community today!

  • Newsletters
  • Become a member
  • NEWS
    • News & Politics
    • Investigations
    • En español
  • CITY LIFE
    • The To-Do
    • Street View
    • Community Calendar
    • Best of Chicago 2022: City Life
    • Best of Chicago 2022: Buy Local
    • Best of Chicago 2022: Sports & Recreation
  • COLUMNS & OPINION
    • Anthony Ehlers: On Prisons
    • Deanna Isaacs: On Culture
    • Ben Joravsky: On Politics
    • The Ben Joravsky Show
    • Dan Savage: Savage Love
    • Opinion
    • Podcasts
      • The Ben Joravsky Show
      • Chicago Queer & Now
  • MUSIC
    • Music Features
    • Gossip Wolf
    • Word Music Festival
    • Jazz Festival
    • Chicagoans of Note
    • The Secret History of Chicago Music
    • Music Reviews
    • Concert Previews
    • City of Win
    • Early Warnings
    • Music listings community calendar
    • The Listener
  • ARTS & CULTURE
    • Theater
    • Dance
    • Visual arts
    • Books
    • Ghost Light by Kerry Reid
    • Arts listings community calendar
    • Poetry Corner
    • Best of Chicago 2022: Arts & Culture
  • FILM
    • Features
    • Reviews
    • Small Screen
    • Best of Chicago 2022: Arts & Culture
    • Archives
  • FOOD & DRINK
    • The Food & Drink Issue 2023
    • Best of Chicago 2022: Food & Drink
    • Features
    • Reviews
    • Monday Night Foodball
    • The Drinks Issue (2021)
  • READER
    • About
    • — Reader Updates
    • — Contact
    • — Staff
    • — Careers
    • Newsletters
    • Advertise
      • Classifieds
    • Donate
      • Become a member
    • Nonprofit Guide
    • Reader 50
    • Reader events
      • Monday Night Foodball
    • Contests
    • Reader Store
    • Find a print copy
      • Distribution map and information
      • Print subscriptions
    • Archives
  • Twitter
  • Facebook
  • Instagram
  • RSS
Skip to content
  • Twitter
  • Facebook
  • Instagram
  • RSS
Chicago Reader

Chicago Reader

Chicago’s alternative nonprofit newsroom

  • Newsletters
  • Become a member
Become a member
  • NEWS
    • News & Politics
    • Investigations
    • En español
  • CITY LIFE
    • The To-Do
    • Street View
    • Community Calendar
    • Best of Chicago 2022: City Life
    • Best of Chicago 2022: Buy Local
    • Best of Chicago 2022: Sports & Recreation
  • COLUMNS & OPINION
    • Anthony Ehlers: On Prisons
    • Deanna Isaacs: On Culture
    • Ben Joravsky: On Politics
    • The Ben Joravsky Show
    • Dan Savage: Savage Love
    • Opinion
    • Podcasts
      • The Ben Joravsky Show
      • Chicago Queer & Now
  • MUSIC
    • Music Features
    • Gossip Wolf
    • Word Music Festival
    • Jazz Festival
    • Chicagoans of Note
    • The Secret History of Chicago Music
    • Music Reviews
    • Concert Previews
    • City of Win
    • Early Warnings
    • Music listings community calendar
    • The Listener
  • ARTS & CULTURE
    • Theater
    • Dance
    • Visual arts
    • Books
    • Ghost Light by Kerry Reid
    • Arts listings community calendar
    • Poetry Corner
    • Best of Chicago 2022: Arts & Culture
  • FILM
    • Features
    • Reviews
    • Small Screen
    • Best of Chicago 2022: Arts & Culture
    • Archives
  • FOOD & DRINK
    • The Food & Drink Issue 2023
    • Best of Chicago 2022: Food & Drink
    • Features
    • Reviews
    • Monday Night Foodball
    • The Drinks Issue (2021)
  • READER
    • About
    • — Reader Updates
    • — Contact
    • — Staff
    • — Careers
    • Newsletters
    • Advertise
      • Classifieds
    • Donate
      • Become a member
    • Nonprofit Guide
    • Reader 50
    • Reader events
      • Monday Night Foodball
    • Contests
    • Reader Store
    • Find a print copy
      • Distribution map and information
      • Print subscriptions
    • Archives
  • >
  • Latest issue
  • Best of Chicago 2023
  • UnGala Celebration
  • Contests
  • Reader Updates
  • Reader Store
  • En español
  • Advertise
Home » C2E2

Tag: C2E2

Posted inAgenda

Dogs and cats, hip-hop, and fancons

by Micco Caporale and Salem Collo-Julin August 6, 2022August 6, 2022

Got room for a little more love in your life? Check out Famous Fido Rescue’s adoption open house today. Famous Fido (3124 W. Irving Park), a no-kill shelter, finds homes for animals surrendered in crisis situations or deemed “unadoptable” by kill shelters. From noon-6 PM, they’re inviting you to meet some of their wonderful furry […]

an artist's rendering of a building that the Nito Cafe would possibly be sited in; chicago at night
Posted inCity Life

Nito Café seeks to create community for local anime lovers

by Amanda Finn March 16, 2022March 16, 2022

In Japan, manga cafes are innumerous. They are places where manga or anime fans can enjoy snacks and refreshments while reading or spending time together. Somehow, despite the culture’s popularity in the United States, there are none of these types of cafes around—until now.  Chicagoan Tayler Tillman wants to bring these Japanese mainstays stateside with […]

Posted inArts & Culture

Meet four comics creators who’ll be at CAKE

by Mark Peters May 29, 2019August 18, 2021

The annual expo celebrates marginalized voices and individual visions.

Posted inNews & Politics

Live from C2E2

by Rivven Prink April 1, 2019August 18, 2021

Credit: Rivven Prink

Posted inBlogs

Three Spider-Man outfits, mechanical feathered wings, and other great photos from C2E2

by Sue Kwong April 6, 2018August 18, 2021

Some of the best costumes and props that fans and cosplayers prepared for this weekend’s comic, games, movies, and everything expo, C2E2.

Posted inArts & Culture

Comic fans meet their heroes, impress the kids, and form lifelong bonds of geekdom at C2E2

by Mark Peters April 4, 2018August 18, 2021

Here’s our guide to this weekend’s festivities

Posted inArts & Culture

130 comic artists team up to finish friend’s graphic novel after he dies at 43

by KT Hawbaker April 4, 2018August 18, 2021

They’ll be fund-raising for (Fucking) Forty at C2E2 this weekend.

Posted inBlogs

C2E2, an Earth Day celebration at Garfield Park Conservatory, and more things to do in Chicago this weekend

by Brianna Wellen April 21, 2017August 18, 2021

Olivia Block, Vintage Garage Chicago, and more happenings from April 21-23.

Posted inBlogs

C2E2 takes over Chicago, Louder Than a Bomb’s sweet 16, and more things to do in Chicago this weekend

by Brianna Wellen March 18, 2016August 18, 2021

Oh, Hello, the Turnament of Champyuns, and other events from March 18-20.

Posted inBlogs

Chinese-American Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. star Chloe Bennet talks diversity in Hollywood

by Ryan Smith March 15, 2016August 18, 2021

Bennet achieved superhero status after Americanizing her last name.

Posted inBlogs

Is nerd culture even a thing anymore? Scenes from C2E2 2015

by Ryan Smith April 28, 2015August 18, 2021

Nerd culture goes mainstream at the annual comic con.

Posted inBlogs

Reader’s Agenda Fri 4/25: C2E2, Sean Flannery, and Behemoth

by Osita Nwanevu April 25, 2014August 18, 2021

What’s on the Reader‘s Agenda for Friday, April 25

Have You Some Milk? by Jacob Crose
Posted inArts & Culture

Chicago comic artists celebrate Batman’s 75th birthday

by Noah Berlatsky April 20, 2014August 18, 2021

Fulton Street Collective celebrates Batman’s 75th anniverary with a comic-art show.

Posted inBest of Chicago

Best Wordplay

by Sam Worley June 20, 2013August 19, 2021

Never forced (think NY Post or, ahem, Chicago Sun-Times), they achieve a breezy, casual success: attendees at the Chicago Comic and Entertainment Expo were “looking for love in Alderaan places,” for instance.

Posted inBlogs

Reader’s Agenda Fri 4/26: C2E2, Chicago Anarchist Film Festival, and Wonka Ball 2013

by Hannah Lorenz April 26, 2013August 19, 2021

What’s on the Reader‘s Agenda for Friday, April 26.

Posts navigation

1 2 Older posts

📩 Get our free daily newsletter delivered straight to your inbox Monday through Friday. Dive into our most recent stories and exclusive insights from our editors and staff.

Processing…
Success! We'll be sending you The Daily Reader starting soon.
Whoops! There was an error and we couldn't process your subscription. Please reload the page and try again.

READER
  • Twitter
  • Facebook
  • Instagram
  • RSS

Best of Chicago 2022

About the Chicago Reader
Reader Staff
Reader Careers
Freelance Information
Contact Us

Donate

Advertise

Submit/promote your event

Find the Paper
Subscribe
Shop the Reader Store
Contests/Giveaways/Promotions

Reader Classifieds

Reader Matches

Chicago Reader Nonprofit Guide

Get our free newsletters

Privacy Policy | Terms of Use

© 2023 Chicago Reader. Proudly powered by Newspack by Automattic