Chicago native Jay Fuller is debuting the first ever, all original Boy in Pink Earmuffs mini comic at CAKE this weekend. When a neighborhood cat goes missing, 12 year old Danny calls in his boyfriend and fellow Super Sleuth J.J. to help solve the case. Whodunit? Find out in this 16 page, black and white… Continue reading »
Jun
15
CAKE DEBUT: Galactic Zoo Dossier #9 by Plastic Crimewave
After three years the ‘hand-drawn psychedelic bible’ is back, leaving no stone unturned in the quest for mind-blowing illumination. ‘Galactic Zoo Dossier #9’ has over 100 pages on overlooked freak rock bands, heady comics and populist pop-psych. Contributors include creator Plastic Crimewave, Byron Coley (The Wire), Eric Colin (Ugly Things / Shindig), Avi Spivak (Human… Continue reading »
Jun
15
CAKE DEBUT: Lurking/Nocturners by Conor Stechschulte
Lurking/Nocturners New 16pg. Book by Conor Stechschulte. Words stolen from H.P. Lovecraft/Crepuscular wanderers passing twice through the xerox machine. Conor Stechschulte lives and works in Baltimore Maryland. He is a member of Closed Caption Comics, the editor of the anthology Sock, and the author of the comic The Amateurs. Conor also co-founded the Open Space… Continue reading »
Jun
15
CAKE DEBUT: Apostrophe to the Ocean by Rebecca Grady Mir
Apostrophe to the Ocean is a much belated follow up to Rebecca’s earlier mini-comic I was born to be an explorer. It trails the explorer from her wanderings on the ice to the sea floor, as she encounters sea creatures of all kinds, and finds Amelia Earhart and her lost plane. Offset color cover with… Continue reading »
Jun
15
CAKE DEBUT: Futurdog by Roxanne Palmer
Futurdog is a science-fiction comic about a dog making his way from a weird, depressing wasteland into a weird, overwhelming metropolis. 24 pages, black and white. Roxanne Palmer draws comics about leopard slug sex, murder, and other sorts of things under the not-really-pseudonym of Roxy Drew. By day, she’s a mild…ish-mannered science journalist, with works… Continue reading »
Jun
15
CAKE DEBUT: Stonewall: Book One by Sasha Steinberg
Stonewall (Book One) is the first of a ten-part comics series, which dramatizes the events of the 1969 “Stonewall Riots” in Manhattan (the spontaneous and violent uprisings that spearheaded the LGBT rights movement). This ongoing series will present the same historical events from three different perspectives, each one drawn in a classic comics style. In… Continue reading »
Jun
15
CAKE DEBUT: Jumbly Junkery #11 by L. Nichols
Now firmly in the double digits with #11, the latest issue of Jumbly Junkery contains a suite of whimsical and sad musings on loss. Stories include an oyster shucker who hears songs in his seafood, to a man lost in the desert, determined to move forward. As the pages progress, Jumbly Junkery #11′s drawings evolve… Continue reading »
Jun
15
CAKE DEBUT: Lollygag from Yam Books
Lark Pien and Rina Ayuyang have collaborated to present Yam Book’s first release of 2012. Lollygag, a revealing anthology edited by cartoonist and artist Lark Pien, collects the compulsive doodles from the sketchbooks of some of the most dynamic and inventive minds in art and comics. Contributors include Trevor Alixopulos, Rina Ayuyang, Nick Bertozzi, Lille… Continue reading »
Jun
15
CAKE DEBUT: Skids #1 by Sally Carson
Come ride with Sally on her auto-biographical adventure! The Skids is about Sally’s days as a New York City bike messenger just after 9/11. Issue 1 of the series will debut at CAKE. Sally will also have some minis that she made at Center for Cartoon Studies’ workshops. Come rap with her about bikes, mushroom… Continue reading »
Jun
14
CAKE DEBUT: Upgrade Soul by Ezra Claytan Daniels
UPGRADE SOUL is an immersive science fiction graphic novel written and illustrated by Ezra Claytan Daniels. Featuring an original score by Alexis Gideon and interactive design by Erik Loyer. Upgrade Soul will be released for iPad in Summer, 2012 from Opertoon. UPGRADE SOUL is the story of an elderly couple who become the guinea pigs… Continue reading »
CAKE 2013
June 15 & 16
Center on Halsted
3656 N Halsted
