2022 CUPCAKE AWARD WINNERS: Congrats to AnneMarie Rogers and Bread Tarleton!

We are excited two announce our two CupCake winners for the 2022 CAKE expo - AnneMarie Rogers and Bread Tarleton.

AnneMarie Rogers

AnneMarie Rogers is a cartoonist and illustrator based in Chicago who makes comics about magic, monsters, and lesbians.

AnnMarie will be working with guest mentor Isabella Rotman on a CupCake comic for 2022.

Bread Tarleton

Bread Tarleton is a non-binary cartoonist, illustrator, and comics editor currently based in Philadelphia. Bread is a graduate of The Center for Cartoon Studies and is the creator of several comics, including Losing Comics, Big Grungus, and Bruce Fort: Professional Bully. Bread’s work is mainly loose digital art with light collage elements, but they have dipped into mixed-media comics, including Dans La Terre, a comic drawn entirely on their face with eyeliner and face paint. The content of their work ranges from goofy comedic fiction to long-form existential explorations. Most recently, Bread’s comics have been focused on their experiences with transness, fatness, and the intersections of these in their life.

Bread will be working with guest mentor Jim Terry on a CupCake comic for 2022.

We’d also like to highlight some outstanding submissions with an honorable mention:

Athena Naylor

Kelly Fry

Liz Bolduc

Lucy Haslam

Vin Mugavero

Thank you so much to Isabella Rotman and Jim Terry for being CupCake 2022’s guest judges and mentors! We look forward to what wonderful comics AnneMarie and Bread will have at CAKE next year!