Cupcake Award Minicomic Release Party
May 1, 2026
6:30 - 8:00 PM
Skunk Cabbage Books
2826 N Milwaukee Ave
With comic readings performed by:
Other readers to be announced – stay tuned!
Join us for our inaugural comics reading event celebrating the 2025 Cupcake Award Winner: Mili St. John debuting, And Up!, They Sprung!
Take a Peek & pre-order!
Faced with eternal damnation after a familiar cabal of technocrat tycoons usurp heaven's throne, a once-righteous web warrior must atone for the sins of her past to make a final plea for salvation.
In this 40-page surrealist memoir mini-comic, author Mili St. John uses the media landscape of John Milton's Paradise Lost to trace the thread of today's pandemonium back to the politics of her upbringing in the wake of the dot-com crash. A satirical romp through a digital hellscape.
Created with the assistance of mentorship from Pidge and the Chicago Alternative Comics Expo Cupcake Award.