EXHIBITOR NAME BIO
M. Sabine RearTable 101A | M. Sabine Rear is a comic artist, zine-maker, educator, and the cute blind lady you gave your seat to on the bus. Her work addresses disability and public space, and her crip-travelogue Reverse Flâneur was nominated for an Ignatz Award in 2017. Sabine is a founding member of Soft Skills Comics Collective, a co-organizer of the Portland Zine Symposium, a Comics Certificate Program instructor at the Independent Publishing Resource Center and a pillar of the karaoke community. | ||
David AlvaradoTable 101B | David Alvarado is a graduate of Columbia College Chicago with a BFA in illustration. His comics and illustrations are identified by unusual character design, other world like environments and unsettling humor. | ||
Power & Magic Press || Joamette GilTable 102 | Power & Magic Press is an independent comics publisher in Portland, OR. Our mission is the creative and economic empowerment of queer creators, creators of color, and creators at the intersections. The driving force behind P&M Press is Joamette Gil, a queer Afro-Cuban cartoonist and editor of the award-winning series POWER & MAGIC: The Queer Witch Comics Anthology. | ||
Madeline McGraneTable 103A | Madeline McGrane is a cartoonist and illustrator based in Minneapolis. She is the creator of the Accursed Vampire graphic novel series. When not working on long comics she self-publishes mini comics about vampires and other subjects, such as Vampire Horse. | ||
Sage CoffeyTable 103B | Wine Ghost! Wine Ghost! | ||
Wendy XuTable 104 | Wendy Xu is a bestselling, award-nominated Brooklyn-based illustrator and comics artist. She is the creator of the middle grade fantasy graphic novel TIDESONG (2021 from HarperCollins/Quilltree) and co-creator of MOONCAKES, a young adult fantasy graphic novel published in 2019 from Oni Press. Her work has been featured on Catapult, Barnes & Noble Sci-fi/Fantasy Blog, and Tor.com, among other places. | ||
Aim Ren BelandTable 105A | Aim Ren Beland draws all those signs for your favorite nautical themed grocery store. When not in the grocery mines, he creates self-published zines, comics and illustrations about emotional journeys, community building, and the humor in contradictions. Aim has spoken on the relationship of queerness in comics at Chicago Zine Fest, C2E2, and Queers & Comics New York. Eggy Toad is his love child. | ||
Siah FilesTable 105B | Siah is a Brooklyn based cartoonist who makes zines about feelings and dogs! They are also a proud dropout of three college art programs. | ||
JJ McLuckieTable 106A | JJ McLuckie is a Chicago-based illustrator, cartoonist, muralist, and tattoo artist. They primarily self-publish queer body-horror comics and zines based on observing biological patterns, destigmatizing gender/sexuality, and visually communicating emotion. Vibrant paintings are often portraits of the enjoyment of melancholy and vulnerability; these form the nucleus of which the many mediums used revolve around. Color theory, design, and stylistic collage are always at the forefront of concepts and therefore are constantly shifting depending on what their most recent research happens to be. | ||
Jasjyot Singh HansTable 106B | Jasjyot Singh Hans is an illustrator and zine maker based in Baltimore who is unendingly inspired by an explosive mix of art, music and fashion. His work chronicles themes of body image, identity and sexuality. | ||
Kelly Phillips (Dirty Diamonds)Table 107 | Kelly Phillips is a cartoonist living in Philadelphia, and the creator of the comic series "Weird Me" about her teenage years as the moderately successful webmaster of a "Weird Al" Yankovic fan site. She is also the co-editor and publisher of the award-winning all-girl comic anthology Dirty Diamonds. She likes cats and outer space, and continues to channel her embarrassing personal history into comics as a cheap form of therapy. | ||
Claire Folkman (Dirty Diamonds)Table 107 | Claire Folkman is an artist living and working in Philadelphia, PA. She creates out of Mercer Street Studios where she makes comics, collages, videos and costumes. She is also editor and contributor to ‘Dirty Diamonds: an all-girl comic anthology’, which has been archived in the Library of Congress.
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Andrea PearsonTable 108A | Andrea is a comics artist from Chicago. She likes long walks on the beach, sunsets and kittens. She self publishes an autobiographical zine series titled No Pants Revolution. You can see some of her comics and scribbles on her ig @Saturn2169. | ||
Megan KirbyTable 108B | Megan Kirby is a writer, artist, and One Direction scholar. She writes pop culture fanzines and an ongoing memoir comic called Coffee Spoons, and she runs Meanwhile, a Chicago zine-making and storytelling show. | ||
Tony BreedTable 109 | Tony Breed is the writer and artist behind Muddlers Beat, a queer slice-of-life comic about how life is what happens when you don't know what you're doing. He also created Finn & Charlie Are Hitched, about a gay married couple and their friends. When not making comics he DJs at Chicago's CHIRP Radio, works as a UX Architect, frets about the universe, and thinks about what he's going to eat next. | ||
Harper SimsTable 110A | Harper Sims is a storyboard and comic artist based in LA. | ||
FROG FARM/ Alexander LairdTable 110B | Alexander Laird, is cartoonist who lives in New York, NY, but is from Toronto, ON, Canada originally. He uses a variety of mediums and forms from plasticine to VHS pixel art to risograph printing, working to create absurd, weird and psychedelic stories. | ||
M.S. HarknessTable 111 | M.S. Harkness is known for her graphic memoirs Time Under Tension (Fantagraphics, 2023) Desperate Pleasures (Uncivilized, 2020) and Tinderella (Kilgore Books, 2018) and various self-published mini-comics. Her work is an incisive bildungsroman of growing up poor, marked by sexual trauma and various other indignities. Harkness currently resides in Columbus, Ohio where she occasionally teaches at the Columbus College of Art & Design. | ||
Jac DellariaTable 112B | Jac Dellaria is an cartoonist and illustrator currently based in Chicago, IL. He is a recent UW-Madison grad with a focus in comics and visual storytelling. His body of work ranges from 2D pieces such as comics, illustrations, and prints to time arts and film. His work has been featured in Illumination, Palgrave Handbook of Critical Menstrual Studies, Girls Will Be, Boys Will Be, Girls Will Be...:A Coloring Book, and will appear in the future spring edition of Sociological Inquiry. His poetry/illustration zine Boys By The Lake was also nominated for Best Litzine at Canzine 2019. | ||
Mike FreiheitTable 112A | Mike is an illustrator, cartoonist and teaching artist at SAIC. He's made three books - Monkey Chef: A Love Story (Kilgore Books), WOODS (Birdcage Bottom Books) and Go Fuck Myself! The Fuckpendium (Kilgore Books). | ||
Justine SavageTable 113A | Justine is an illustrator and cartoonist living in Chicago. Her comics focus on looking inward with curiosity and humor. Her other work runs the gamut from illustrations of beloved tv and movies to abstract drawings and sketches of everyday life. Ultimately, she makes art to soothe her anxiety and stave off boredom while binge watching mediocre tv. | ||
Mike CentenoTable 113B | Mike Centeno is a Venezuelan cartoonist based in Chicago for the past nine years. His series Futile Comics is currently on its 9th issue (debuting at CAKE '23.) The series delivers stand-alone paranoid fantasies dealing with Mike's concerns with immigration, identity, disease, and other anxieties of being trapped in a fleshy, decaying prison. His work has been published in: The Nib, Chicago Reader, WOW in the world, El Espectador, and the Southside Weekly. He likes talkin' movies and making music. | ||
Jen ChavezTable 114 | Jen is a sleep deprived Chicana illustrator and comic artist. She enjoys churning out zines exploring the rough edges of mental health and all the necessary vulnerabilities that come with being honest. When she’s not drawing she likes to pace around Chicago for as long as possible. | ||
Dan Perlstein (Snack King Comics)Table 115 | Snack King Comics is an independent, creator-owned mini-comics publisher. We publish works in comedy, science-fiction, action-adventure, and tales about food service drudgery. Individual issues of our ongoing series range from 6 to 12 pages in length, like little snacks for your feelings. Free web-edition issues can be read on our website: snackkingcomics.com Snack King Comics was founded in 2018 by writer/artist duo Dan Perlstein and Lance Orr who hail from Milwaukee, WI, and reside in Chicago, IL. We've been collaborating on comics and other funny businesses for 15+ years. | ||
Lance OrrTable 115 | Lance is the artist-half and co-founder of Snack King Comics. He's the co-creator of Man Boy. As a self taught artist, Lance takes visual inspiration by punk underground comix, some old Marvel mags like ROM and manga from the 70’s 80’s and 90’s. | ||
JW BalsleyTable 116 | JW Balsley started developing his comics and characters most notably, The Devils Henchmen, starting earlier this past decade posting online and using various websites and social media. He generally focuses on a gang of misfit animal characters having misadventures in a cartoony, sometimes surreal post-apocalyptic universe. After moving around the world and the country JW just recently moved to Chicago IL where he is freelancing and focusing on comics, books and other creative projects. | ||
Issue PressTable 117 | Issue Press is an independent publisher and printer of artist books, comics, print editions, and multiples based in Grand Rapids, MI. | ||
Perfectly Acceptable PressTable 118 | Perfectly Acceptable Press publishes short-run narrative artist books with an emphasis on synergy between content, craft, and form. Our aim is to create an object that pushes the boundaries of a zine without sacrificing accessibility or content. | ||
Uncivilized BooksTable 119 | Minneapolis-based Uncivilized Books is an independent publisher and think-tank specializing in comic books and rogue theories. A champion of intelligent comics, graphic novels, and criticism for over a decade, Uncivilized has released works by some of the best cartoonists on the planet: Gabrielle Bell, Matt Madden, Peter Wartman, Joann Sfar, David B., Alan Moore, Noah Van Sciver, and many more. We're currently serializing Ginseng Roots, a significant new work from Craig Thompson (Blankets). Uncivilized is run by cartoonist Tom Kaczynski. | ||
Bill WehmannTable 120A | Bill Wehmann is a comics artist and illustrator from Pittsburgh, PA. His self published works include Abyssal Yawn, and Death by Comics. | ||
Ross JacksonTable 120B | Ross Jackson is a cartoonist and illustrator based out of Portland, OR. A graduate of the IPRC's Comics Certificate Program, he writes stories that are silly and/or sad, often strange, and usually have a dog in there somewhere. Ross is also a member of Secret Room, a comics studio and risograph publisher that specializes in fun books for a nice time. | ||
Fiendish ClutchesTable 121A | a cartoonist and printmaker specializing in the absurd and grotesque who lives in Minneapolis. | ||
Jim TerryTable 121B | JIM TERRY is a comic book artist who’s memoir “Come Home, Indio” was a finalist for the LA Times Book Prize and the Ignatz, as well as the artist on such titles as THE CROW, HACK/SLASH, HEAVY METAL and more. He is currently working on WEST OF SUNDOWN from Vault Comics. He lives in Chicago with his 4 cats. | ||
Matthew AllisonTable 122 | Matthew Allison has been producing comics with his character/alter ego, Cankor, since 2011 and recently collected them in a deluxe hardcover. In addition, he's had work published by Image Comics, Black Mask Studios, Heavy Metal, AdHouse Books, Dark Horse Comics and Metal Hurlant. His next long form comic, Sweet Sepulcher, will be published in 2024. He lives in Chicago with his wife, Krystal. | ||
Leigh LunaTable 201A | Leigh Luna is a mixed Latina artist who was born in Albuquerque, New Mexico, and graduated from the Minneapolis College of Art and Design. She is passionate about color, comedy, girl culture, and alternative learning. Currently living in Los Angeles; Leigh works in animation as a Color Designer (painter) on shows such as Steven Universe, Centaurworld, and Clone High. Her debut comedy graphic novel Clementine Fox will be published by Scholastic in May 2023. | ||
Rachel BardTable 201B | Rachel Bard is a cartoonist and illustrator who loves monsters, sad stories, and small press publishing. She graduated from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago in 2016, where she drew a lot of cute things trying to not get eaten. Now she spends her time making comics, inventing strange new animals, and assembling an endless amount of tiny books. | ||
Ariel ChanTable 202A | Ariel Chan is an illustrator and self-publishing comic artist based in Chicago. She enjoys creating stories that explore personal growth that she hopes can resonate emotionally with readers, but are still full of fun! She also hopes you'll enjoy her most recent comic work, "Armor Up!" | ||
SteenzTable 202B | Steenz is a St. Louis based cartoonist, editor, and professor. They're the cartoonist on the syndicated comic strip ‘Heart Of The City’, the co-creator of Dwayne McDuffie Award winning Graphic Novel 'Archival Quality', and is the co-creator of the Standard Comic Script. Steenz currently teaches cartooning at Webster University while editing titles from independent publishers and creators. They're also working on their latest graphic novel Side Quest: A Graphic Novel History of TTRPGs. | ||
Bianca XuniseTable 203A | Bianca Xunise is an illustrator, writer, and educator based out of Chicago, Illinois. With two Ignatz Awards under their belt, Bianca’s storytelling primarily focuses on the joys and plights of being black in the 21st century. Bianca enjoys being a voice for those who march to the beat of their own drum and hopes that their comics are comforting to those who feel like they don’t fit in. In 2020, Bianca became the first nationally syndicated non-binary cartoonist (and the second black woman) when they joined the comic strip Six Chix in 2020 as their first black creator. Xunise has also collaborated with Vogue, The Washington Post, The Nib, and Believer Magazine. Their debut graphic novel, Punk Rock Karaoke, will be published by Penguin Teen in Spring 2024. When Bianca isn’t doodling away, they are usually at an underground DIY punk show dancing with friends by the Chicago riverside. | ||
Kels ChooTable 203B | Kelsey Choo is a Hawaii girl self-publishing comics, zines, and other art in Colorado. A 2013 grad of the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, she previously lived in Chicago for eight years. Her comics work is heavily influenced by monsters, magic, nature, nostalgia, and whimsy. | ||
Beth HetlandTable 204 | Beth Hetland is a graduate of The Center for Cartoon Studies and faculty member teaching comics at The School of the Art Institute of Chicago. Her solo work, FUGUE, is an autobiographical three-part story about her family using music as a metaphor for their relationships. Her collaborative work, Half Asleep, is the story of a young girl whose mother enrolls her in a college program in a reality where you can manipulate your dreams and they affect the real world. | ||
Kyle O'ConnellTable 204 | Kyle O'Connell will probably be at CAKE this year. | ||
GABOTable 205 | GABO is the artist for DEAD OF WINTER written by Kyle Starks, as well as THE LIFE AFTER written by Joshua Hale Fialkov, both published by Oni Press. His brain is connected wirelessly to an off-world server and downloads new information on the latest and greatest gadgets, gizmos and space operas for humans to consume. | ||
Deya MunizTable 206 | Deya Muniz is a comic artist who creates hilarious and heart warming art. When she isn’t working on her graphic novel about grilled cheese and secret lesbians, she whips up goofy short comics for her webcomic, Brutally Honest. | ||
Emily ErdosTable 206 | Emily Erdos is an illustrator and comic artist who has an affinity for drawing cute critters, especially dogs! When she isn’t drawing pups, she’s busy working on her debut graphic memoir. | ||
Meggie the RammTable 207A | Meggie Ramm (they/them) is a non-binary cartoonist from Michigan. They spent their twenties teaching comics to kids in Oakland, California, and it was the best job in the whole world. They've had work in the New Yorker, Everyday Feminism, Silver Sprocket, and Sunday Haha with their limerick comic, The Littlest Dungeon Guard. Their debut graphic novel, Batcat, came out through Abrams in spring of this year. | ||
Phillip MairaTable 207B | Phillip Maira is a comic book writer from Chicago best known for his annual anthology series, Crackle. In between creating stories for the next volume of Crackle, he is writing his first graphic novel. You can view all his comics online for free at https://phillipmaira.com/ | ||
Ryan KingTable 208A | Ryan King is a comic book writer living and working in New York City. His self-published comics include Cricketsong (a crime-thriller road trip set in the gothic desert of Southern California), Nico's Fortune (a LGBTQ+ friendly horror comic about newlyweds, fraternities, and cats), The Games We Played (a comic about abandoned houses, childhood friends, and the ghosts that haunt them), and ToTully Aces (an anthropomorphic tale of asexuality starring an axolotyl). His comics have appeared in Advanced Death Saves, CORPUS, Study Group Comics, Built on Strange Ground, Nashville Review, Hobart, Zarjaz, Driftwood Press, and are forthcoming in Planetside. When he's not working on completing his MLS degree or obsessing over Studio Ghibli, he helps organize Flame Con, the world's largest LGBTQ+ comic convention. Find out more on his website www.RyanKingWrites.com or follow him on Twitter/ig @ryyyan_kiiing / Tumblr @ryyyan-kiiing | ||
Robert StevensonTable 208B | Chicago graffiti artist, turned comix weirdo, turned creature monk. Working as a sign maker and illustrator for over 20 years, enjoying experimenting with words and pictures. | ||
Penina GalTable 209A | Penina Gal is a cartoonist, illustrator, painter, and designer. They currently live in Providence, RI. | ||
Betsey SwardlickTable 209B | Betsey Swardlick is a New England Cartoonist with bros in different area codes. She spends a lot of time on rollerskates, or yelling, or both. You can find her comics filed under 'W' for 'wiggly.' | ||
Alex KostiwTable 210A | Alex Kostiw is an artist, graphic designer, and educator in Chicago. She makes poetic comics about the language of interior lives, perceptions of reality, and connecting with others. With roots in design, printmedia, and literary criticism, her work is honest and tender. | ||
Drew LermanTable 210B | Drew Lerman has been writing and drawing the comic strip Snake Creek since June 2018. His most recent book, Escape from the Great American Novel, was published by Radiator Comics in April 2023. He lives in Miami, FL with his family. | ||
Fieldmouse Press / MariNaomiTable 211 | Fieldmouse Press is a nonprofit publisher of comics and literature, based in Grass Valley, California. Founded in 2019, Fieldmouse Press is committed to expanding the reach and appreciation of the comics arts. Fieldmouse Press publishes the online literary magazine SOLRAD, and since 2021, has begun publishing international and American comics. We are passionate about comics and our goal is to advance the medium through the publication of new and underrepresented voices. We believe that comics should be a place for every story and every person.
MariNaomi (they/them) is an award-winning author and illustrator who lives and works in the San Francisco Bay Area. Their work has appeared in over eighty print publications and has been featured by The New Yorker, The Washington Post, LA Times, The Rumpus, LA Review of Books, Midnight Breakfast and BuzzFeed. Their latest book, I Thought You Loved Me, follows in real-time as Mari unravels the mystery of a lost queer friendship, examining the unreliability of memory, the expectations of friendship, and the struggle to let go. | ||
Nicholas M JacksonTable 212A | Nick Jackson is a drawer, amateur oral historian, and professional curious itch-scratcher. His work puts journalistic storytelling and raw, expressive markmaking in the same cage to see what happens. He’s currently working on a graphic novel piecing together conflicting accounts of the 2013-2014 EuroMaidan revolution in Ukraine. | ||
Lucie Van der ElstTable 212A | Lucie Van Der Elst is an illustrator, comics artist, and miniature Fimo sculptor, originally from Paris, living in Chicago since 2016. She harvests her anxieties and knits intricate drawings of places, organisms, and structures, all collapsing in slow-motion. Her comfort zone is an imaginary land where David Cronenberg meets the Moomins. | ||
Dean SudarskyTable 212B | Dean lives in Providence, where he letters comics for NYRC and sometimes makes his own. | ||
Kevin BudnikTable 213A | Kevin Budnik is an autobiographical cartoonist from Chicago. He writes about mental health, body issues, relationships, family and gender | ||
leslie perrineTable 213B | Leslie is a comic artist and illustrator who recently relocated to Saint Paul, MN. She likes creating creature and stories for readers of all ages. When she's not drawing strange creatures she can be found in her little rambler house drinking tea and dreaming of cats. | ||
Shae BeagleTable 214 | Shae Beagle is a non-binary artist from Columbus, Ohio. They are a graduate of Columbus College of Art & Design, and currently the artist on Moonstruck, a comic series about modern day monsters, romance, and magical hijinks. When they're not making comics, they're reading comics, or letting them pile up and playing video games instead. | ||
Cydney CherepakTable 215A | Cydney is an illustrator and comic artist based in the Kansas City area. With a strong interest in color, character development, and self-inspection, Cydney works to keep exploring and learning what she can create through both media and content. In her free time, Cydney likes collecting and caring for houseplants, looking for dogs to adopt, and watching movies with friends and family. |
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Morgan Kendric SawyerTable 215B | Morgan Kendric Sawyer (b. 1987) I am an illustrator / cartoonist that graduated from VCU 2011 and have spent my time since then telling and creating stories that focus mainly about the beauty of life and the struggles it presents. Since graduating I have worked as a artist and game tester, drawn comics for a few indie publishers and started teaching Illustration as an Adjunct Professor at VSU. My goal in life is to tell and create stories and hopefully they speak to the people that read them. | ||
María José CastilloTable 216A | Words Are Objects is the one-person studio of Colombian artist and graphic designer María José Castillo. Currently living in Minneapolis, Minnesota, their work focuses on printmaking, lettering, publication design, illustration and installation pieces. María José’s work is heavy on formal exploration of type and shapes, analyzing how type, layout and color affect the way a message is read. They also dive deep in a quirky and colorful universe with their illustration work, often accompanied by lettering exploration. | ||
Evan DahmTable 216B | Evan lives in Brooklyn and has been making fantasy-adventure graphic novels since 2006, including Vattu, Rice Boy, and Island Book. His graphic novel The Harrowing of Hell is new for this show. | ||
Coin-Op BooksTable 217 | Peter and Maria Hoey are brother and sister artists. Since 2008 they have independently produced and published the Eisner-nominated comic series Coin-Op. The latest issue, Coin-Op no. 9, was published this spring. Their graphic novels, Animal Stories (2022) and The Bend of Luck (2023), are published by Top Shelf Productions and they are hard at work on their new comic In Perpetuity (2024). The Hoeys’ early comics appeared in many issues of the influential Chicago comic anthology BLAB! | ||
Pyrite PressTable 218 | Pyrite Press publishes the gold standard of comics, artist books, and literary zines. | ||
Alex KrokusTable 218 | My name is Alex Krokus and I'm a Brooklyn-based comic artist. I make a regular webcomic series called Loud & Smart, which has two volumes published by Pyrite Press. I also self-publish a comic series called 420 Fake Street and co-direct Doggo Studios. | ||
Cat ParraTable 219A | Artist, writer and editor. Graduated from the Savannah College of Art and Design in 2015 with a BFA in Sequential Art. My work focuses on adventure, fashion, and romance. My latest comic is THE ELUSIVE MR VANDERBRIDGE, a jazz age mystery that debuted August. | ||
Margins PublishingTable 219A | Margins Publishing is a micropress dedicated to working with marginalized and fledgeling creators to create collaborative anthologies and zines. Our anthologies focus on increasing representation in comics and telling good stories, a mission that drives our flagship project: DATES! AN ANTHOLOGY OF QUEER HISTORICAL FICTION. We were honored to be awarded the PRISM Award for Best Anthology in 2018, and recently published DATES 3. | ||
Robert HendricksTable 219B | R. Hendricks is a Chicago-based visual storyteller captivated by comics about the bizarre, eccentric and troubled lives of human beings. | ||
Jessi ZabarskyTable 220A | Jessi Zabarsky is a cartoonist and illustrator living in Chicago. She makes comics about small journeys and big feelings, with queer themes and folksy environments. Her first two graphic novels, 'Witchlight' and 'Coming Back', were published by Random House Graphic, and she’s previously worked with Czap Books, Iron Circus Comics, and Shortbox. She has stopped counting her house plants, because there are now far too many. | ||
Gabi MendezTable 220B | Gabi Mendez is a queer latinx comic artist and illustrator. A graduate of the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and SCAD's sequential arts master's program, she writes a lot of silly comics, says "dude" too much, and just wants everyone to feel included. | ||
Cold Boy PressTable 221A | Cold Boy is a collaborative press based in Chicago, hosting Bridget Bilbo, Sofia Diaz & Jillian Sander. They each individually create work through traditional means like screen printing, riso, and animation. Their comics often settle in silly banalities of life, queerness, and chaos, and they have fun doing it! Sofia, Bridget and their pal Lisa also program a monthly animation screening called Corrupted Frames, highlighting looping gifs and their connection to comics. | ||
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Z AkhmetovaTable 221B | Z Akhmetova is a cartoonist, illustrator, and textile artist based in Saint Paul, MN. They work at a public library, and have strong opinions on speculative fiction, children's literature, and art education. | ||
Shira Neiss IllustrationTable 222A | Shira Neiss is a artist, illustrator, and textile designer, born and bred in the obscure town of Brooklyn, NY. Her work is whimsical and irreverent, with a strong Jewish and feminist sensibility. All her work is self printed and self published. | ||
Debbie FongTable 222B | Debbie Fong is an illustrator & cartoonist from Brooklyn, NY. She loves minicomics and risograph prints and drawing plants. Her comic "Greenhouse" was nominated for an Ignatz award in 2018 and won a Broken Frontier award in the same year. She is currently working on her first graphic novel. | ||
Joy SanTable 301 | Joy San is an illustrator and comic artist based in Canada. Her work features a lot of horror and bizarre themes that straddle the line between disturbing and funny. She also loves to create autobio comics and zines. In her spare time, she films vlogs on YouTube about her life as an artist, food lover, and sticker hoarder. | ||
Beatrix UrkowitzTable 302A | Beatrix Urkowitz makes comics and art in Providence, Rhode Island. | ||
Mary ShyneTable 302B | Mary Shyne is a cartoonist who grew up in the O'Hare-adjacent suburb, Des Plaines. Her debut graphic novel Graduation Day, coming out from Henry Holt Books for Young Readers in winter 2025, is set in a Chicago suburb not unlike her native DP. Mary now lives in the Bay Area, and works as a senior staff artist at the Snoopy Studio in Santa Rosa. | ||
Liz SuxTable 303A | Liz's work focuses on reclaiming childhood memories, the evolving dynamics of family, and personal anxieties. Liz is a librarian without a degree and comic maker at all other hours of the day. | ||
Jessica CheckeroskiTable 303B | Jessica uses bright colors and humor to explore the ongoings of daily life, her dog, dating as well as take jabs at pop-culture. She takes pride in delivering work that people can connect to and find delightful. | ||
Marie EngerTable 304 | Marie Enger (it’s like ANGER but with an E) is a cartoonist and illustrator out of St. Louis. Enger is most known for self publishing the stoner horror FHTAGN and LOATHING, the desolate horrors, WE ARE IN A DARK PLACE, REGOLITH, the dark occult western TTRPG CASKET LAND, and their three inktober projects: ALL WEREWOLVES MUST GO (2016), NOSTERATU! (2017) and THE BONES OF THIS PLACE (2018). YEAH they did those PUP comics! YES they work for licensed work projects like DEPT. H, INVADER ZIM, RICK AND MORTY, ADVENTURE TIME and ROCKO’S MODERN LIFE. They love punk music, vampires, and birds. | ||
JB RoeTable 305A | JB Roe is an artist and writer based out of Des Moines, IA. His comics include D Ö D A, Brainbuster 2019 with James Henry Dufresne, Beef Jams, Daikaiju Team Alpha with Erik Schneider-Gutierrez, and various anthologies and series including Beef Jams, Screwjob, 666, and Pallor Pink. He co-hosts and produces Gutter Boys, a small press comics podcast, along with Louiesville-based cartoonist Cam del Rosario. | ||
Austin MacDonaldTable 305B | Austin MacDonald is an illustrator and comic artist from Connecticut who loves skateboarding and science fiction. | ||
Tom HartTable 306 | Tom Hart is the founder and director of The Sequential Artists Workshop, a school for comics and graphic novels in Gainesville, Florida and online. He is the author of the #1 bestseller Rosalie Lightning, as well as the how to book, The Art of the Graphic Memoir, as well as the Hutch Owen series of graphic novels. | ||
Emma JensenTable 306 | Emma Jensen is an Australian comics artist based in Gainesville, Florida. She makes comics in the morning and helps out at the sequential artists workshop in the afternoons. You can see her work in progress on ig, @emmaleejensen. | ||
Mo McMastersTable 307 | Mo McMasters is a comic & storyboard artist based in Los Angeles. Their work is informed by horror films, tarot cards, and growing up queer in Arkansas. | ||
AnneMarie RogersTable 308A | AnneMarie Rogers is a cartoonist and illustrator based in Chicago who makes comics about magic, monsters, and lesbians. | ||
Pat RooksTable 30B | Pat Rooks is a self-taught cartoonist from outside of Atlanta who has been self publishing minis, zines and comics since 2017. He likes to laugh. He likes to have fun. | ||
Sarah BecanTable 309A | Sarah Becan's food-based autobiographical webcomic "I Think You're Sauceome" sparked a love of food and culinary illustration. She illustrated the cookbook The Adventures of Fat Rice, published 2016, and is the coauthor and illustrator of Let’s Make Ramen!, published July 2019, and Let’s Make Dumplings!, published June 2021. She's currently working on a comic book cookbook with baker Ken Forkish. | ||
Badhands ComicsTable 309B | Making comics in Riverside, California. | ||
Maamoul PressTable 310 | Maamoul Press is a multi-disciplinary small press and collective for the creation, curation and dissemination of art at the intersection of comics, printmaking, and book arts. We seek to uplift work from a diverse range of creators from marginalized backgrounds, fostering the arts in those communities through publishing, workshops, exhibitions, and distribution. | ||
Marjorie Gaber (Marj Makes Comics)Table 311A | Marjorie Gaber is an illustrator and cartoonist based in Michigan. She has been featured in Lilies Anthology, What The F Magazine, the Gargoyle, and the comics anthology Brain Garbage, the final volume of which she co-edited with artist Miles Honey. Marjorie makes comics and zines about herself, family, queer identity, monsters, music, and cowboys, sometimes she makes comics about all of those things at once! | ||
Grace DesmaraisTable 311B | Grace Desmarais self-publishes auto-bio and middle-grade comics. Grace enjoys exploring a variety of genres including memoir, historical narrative and fantasy with her playful style. Grace's work has been featured in a variety of anthologies including the Votes for Women Anthology (to be published Fall 2020) and Why Faith Anthology (Spring 2019). Her editorial work has been featured in magazines, including Bright Lite Magazine and Hazel Magazine. Grace's in graphic medicine has also been recognized by the Coalition of Texans with Disabilities with a Pen 2 Paper Nomination in Graphic Literature. Her goal is to be a published graphic novelist with a committed comics publisher where she hopes to make comics about life and witches | " | |
Audrey NiffeneggerTable 312 | Audrey Niffenegger is a writer and artist. Her novel The Time Traveler's Wife is being adapted into a series for HBO by Steven Moffat. She has also published the graphic novels The Night Bookmobile, Raven Girl, and The Three Incestuous Sisters. She's currently writing a sequel to The Time Traveler's Wife and trying to start a new book arts center, Artists Book House. | ||
Eddie CampbellTable 312 | Eddie Campbell has been publishing comics since the 1980s. His work includes From Hell (with Alan Moore), Bacchus, Alec, The Truth is a Cave in the Black Mountains (with Neil Gaiman) and Bizarre Romance (with Audrey Niffenegger). His most recent book is The Goat Getters, his big book about sports cartooning. | ||
Really Easy PressTable 313A | Run by Erik S. & Christine Gutierrez, Really Easy Press provides an affordable way for artists to release Risograph comics and zines. The artist and publisher share equal portions of the print run at little to no cost to the artist. | ||
POMEgranate MagazineTable 313B | POMEpress is the small press comics publishing imprint of POMEgranate Magazine. We publish smart, strange content for thoughtful and sensitive weirdos in the form of anthologies, zines, and other printed comics work. | ||
Andy GlassTable 314A | Andy Glass is the artist behind such mini-comics as PAPER PARABLES, I WILL EAT YOUR HEART, THE TOWER and the short story collection I REMEMBER YOU. His comics and illustrations have appeared in many 'zines and publications including: the Chicago Reader, Denver Westword and the Electric Cruise. He currently lives and works in Evanston Illinois. | ||
Barbara GuttmanTable 314B | Barbara Guttman is a Minneapolis based comic book artists an illustration specializing in stories about unexpected creepiness, fringes, and the relationships between people and the unknown. She has been publish by Vertigo, Dark Horse, and IDW. She subsists almost entirely on tea. | ||
Julia GootzeitTable 315 | Julia Gootzeit is a cartoonist from St. Louis, Missouri now residing in Carrboro, North Carolina. They use comics to explore the soft drama of mundane life. | ||
Katie SchofieldTable 315 | Katie is an artist living in rural Wisconsin. When she isn't drawing comics about her daily life + thoughts, she works on an organic vegetable farm and at a small public library. | ||
Josh MillerTable 316A | Josh Miller is a multidisciplinary artist living in Chicago. He writes comics about cute characters in other worlds, his own life, and sometimes a mix of both. You can usually find him sketching on the blue line. | ||
Issy ManleyTable 316B | Issy Manley is a cartoonist and educator, living in New Orleans. She makes mostly autobiographical and non-fiction comics about labor, climate crisis, and capitalism, and her work has appeared in The Guardian, The Nib, The Lily and Narratively. She will be debuting her new collection of short comics from Antenna Press, called "No One Wants to Work Anymore", at CAKE this year! | ||
KOREANGRYTable 317A | KOREANGRY, a comic/zine series is based on comic artist Eunsoo Jeong's daily struggles as an immigrant woman and artist searching for her identity in today’s political climate. First-generation of an immigrant from South-Korea herself, she grew up in the Bay Area. After attending San Jose State University with an Animation program, she headed down to Los Angeles to pursue her career in the animation industry. She now focuses on her Koreangry series to enlighten and celebrate her journey with snarky humor in her comic! | ||
Jon MarchioneTable 317B | Jon Marchione is an illustrator who loves self publishing and making bright, fun, and energetic scenes full of foliage and flowers. | ||
Wenting LiTable 318A | Wenting Li is an illustrator, muralist, and comics maker working out of Toronto. She loves meeting cats, travelling long distances by bus or train, and reading too far into the night. You can find her work in publications like the New York Times, The Walrus, and on certain streetcorners. | ||
Sage HowardTable 318B | Sage Howard's been making comics for a while now, and you'd think he would have learned the error of his ways. | ||
Molly MendozaTable 319 | Molly Mendoza is an artist living in Portland, Oregon. Through their work they explore the complexities of interpersonal relationships with a focus on layered visual storytelling, mark-making, and color. Their comics have centered on stories about being lost between dimensions, moody swim team drama, and the troubles of toxic nostalgia; anything that brings up the feelings we just can’t shake. Molly also illustrates for editorial clients, children’s book publishing, paints murals around PDX, and maintains their own personal art practice. Their other passions are spending too much time on FFXIV and playing with their cat Doodle. | ||
Bread TarletonTable 320A | 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. | ||
Allie TrigosoTable 32B | Allie Trigoso is an animator and cartoonist living in Chicago, IL. She relocated here from hot and sweaty San Antonio, TX to pursue an MFA in Animation at DePaul University. Allie loves bright colors; public transit; and making people uncomfortable. Her comics and animation are darkly humorous and feature gross weirdos living their “best lives” and/or dealing with difficult relationships. | ||
Bulgilhan PressTable 321A | Bulgilhan is a small press comics publisher bringing exciting and experimental comics into the world. | ||
BEARBEARTable 321B | BEARBEAR is a Risograph printing press and creative studio in Milwaukee, WI. Ben Grzenia and Diana Chu are the illustration & design duo behind it. | ||
Lucky Pocket PressTable 322 | Lucky Pocket Press is a risograph press and artist collective telling unique and meaningful stories through comics, apparel, merchandise, and more! | ||
Rayne KlarTable 323A | Rayne is a small small witch from the midwest. They make comics about magic, monsters, romance, mental health and witches. | ||
Emma JayneTable 323B | Emma Jayne is an Ignatz Award-winning cartoonist from Michigan and creator of Trans Girls Hit the Town. She likes ghosts, blankets, and lesbians. Someday, she’ll get around to starting a punk band but will almost certainly get distracted by drawing until her hands fall out of their wristholes. | ||
Ro SalarianTable 324A | A queer pioneer, Ro Salarian, debuted on the web in the early 2000s with webcomics like YU+ME Dream and I Was Kidnapped By Lesbian Pirates From Outer Space. She is currently working on Spectacle, a YA series about ghosts in a circus, a silly romantic diary comics called Love is Strange, as well as weird horror smut. Something for everyone. | ||
Eli BishopTable 324B | Eli Bishop is an East Coast transplant in San Francisco who has been making comics very slowly for about 20 years, including the dream-based minicomic series AN INSIDE JOB, the auto-anthology BUSYBODY, and various pieces in small-press collections. He has been a techie, a nurse, an actor, a transcriptionist, a dog person and a cat person. | ||
Adam GriffithsTable 401A | Adam Griffiths makes bizarre mostly-Washington DC-based horror and sci-fi comics, illustrations, and webcomics. He also loves obscure cinema, contemporary art, and doors. | ||
James the StantonTable 401B | James the Stanton is a cartoonist and illustrator living in Seattle, WA. James has been publishing his comic 'Gnartoons' since 2005. His comics have been featured in publications such as Thrasher, BusinesssWeek, The Seattle Weekly, Adventure Time, The Stranger, and The Nib among others. | ||
Steve SchabergTable 402A | Steve is a cartoonist and printmaker who lives in Los Angeles. He misses Chicago and is confused by sunshine and good vibes. His interests include nudging sheets of paper sub-millimeter distances in order to achieve perfect registration, hundreds of times in a row, and surfing the world wide web. | ||
Will Betke-BrunswickTable 402B | Will makes wacky, dark, funny comics about their life and flightless birds. His comics are in zines of different sizes and also in the anthology "How to Wait: An Anthology of Transition" and on the websites of "INTO" and "Bluum." Will lives in Boulder and is working on their MFA in Comics from California College of the Arts. Will teaches math and is a publishing assistant for the West Coast art organization Art Practical. | ||
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Spitball: A CCAD Comics AnthologyTable 403 | Spitball: A CCAD Comics Anthology is a collection of comics made by student artists at Columbus College of Art & Design. | ||
Derf BackderfTable 404 | Derf Backderf is the bestselling, award-winning author of My Friend Dahmer and Trashed, and recipient of the prestigious Robert F. Kennedy Journalism Award for political cartooning. His weekly comic strip, The City, appeared in more than 100 newspapers for almost twenty-five years. He lives in Cleveland, Ohio. Backderf’s most recent book Kent State: Four Dead in Ohio released in 2020. | ||
sunshine gaoTable 405A | sunshine gao studied ecology and philosophy, cooked noodles, and sold produce. Now, they draw stories about home-in all its forms, with all its complications. | ||
Jacob YeatesTable 405B | Jacob Yeates is an artist/educator who has been living and working in Minneapolis since 2015. Frequently focusing on the histories and current conditions present within the violent structures of empire, supremacy and global capital, Jacob’s solo and collaborative work has received grant funding from the Minnesota State Arts Board, Freedom and Captivity, and MPD150, has been featured by Society of Illustrators Los Angeles, Creative Quarterly, 3x3, Paper Darts, Illozine, IH8 WAR and Little Village Magazine, and has appeared in a variety of galleries, exhibitions, panel discussions, and other community events and publications throughout Minnesota, Iowa, and beyond. | ||
Entropy EditionsTable 406A | Entropy Editions is a comics publishing house founded in 2018 & based in Minneapolis, MN. | ||
Xiomar LunaTable 406B | Xiomar Luna is a trans masculine cartoonist and zinester from Minneapolis! Their work primarily focuses on queer and trans identity, memory/nostalgia, and the supernatural. They are an Aquarius who loves a good photocopied mini comic and is inspired by 90s pop punk, science illustration, space, and manga. | ||
Floating HeadTable 407 | We publish science fiction art, comics, illustration, and prose in beautifully designed books and prints. | ||
Hazel NewlevantTable 408A | Hazel is the author of comics including No Ivy League, Sugar Town, and If This Be Sin, and the publisher of the anthologies Chainmail Bikini and Comics for Choice. Their comics and editing have been honored with the Ignatz Award, Eisner Award, and the Prism Comics Queer Press Grant. | ||
Isabella RotmanTable 408B | Isabella Rotman is a cartoonist and illustrator from Maine. Her art is usually about the ocean, women, crushing loneliness, people in the woods, or sex. Isabella is the creator of This Might Hurt Tarot. | ||
Alex NallTable 409A | Alex Nall is a cartoonist living in Chicago. His comics have been featured in The Chicago Reader, Newcity, and been nominated for an Ignatz Award. His series ‘Town & County’ is a comics magazine featuring short interlinked stories detailing the lives and histories of multiple townsfolk living in rural Illinois. He and his wife, Hannah Larson, run Hardscrabble Cafe Press. | ||
Chicago ZinefestTable 409B | Chicago Zine Fest is a celebration of small press and independent publishers, with an annual festival of workshops, events, and the big expo day where zinesters from all over the country gather to sell and trade their zines. All events are free and open to the public. | ||
Mattie LubchanskyTable 410 | Mattie Lubchansky is a cartoonist and illustrator. They are an Ignatz winner, a Herblock Prize finalist, author of The Antifa Super-Soldier Cookbook, co-author of Dad Magazine, and co-editor/contributor to the anthologies Flash Forward and Be Gay Do Comics. Their debut full-length graphic novel, Boys Weekend, is out June 6th from Pantheon. Mattie lives in beautiful Queens, NY. | ||
Emeric L. KennardTable 411A | Emeric is an artist, storyteller, and heretic based in Portland, Oregon. Their work has exhibited throughout the United States, been recognized by the Society of Illustrators, and nominated for a Lambda Literary Award as part of PRISM Comics' Alphabet Anthology. They are among the artists featured in the acclaimed documentary film No Straight Lines: the Rise of Queer Comics. Suffering a chronic love of puns, they self publish comics and zines as Cervus Canadensis Press. Debuting this year in the collaborative artist book Roots: Korean Diaspora, their autobiographical comic "I Don't Know How to Say This (이걸 어떻게 말해야 할지 모르겠어)" explores childhood memories at the intersection of race, queerness, religion, and cultural belonging. | ||
Jake SlinglandTable 411B | Jake Slingland grew up in Nevada, leaving to attend art school in Seattle, Washington. After graduation, he worked in South Korea where he traveled the country and the continent of Asia, fully catching the travel bug along the way. Since then, Jake has moved to and from Los Angeles, making his way through the Golden State, come to spend regular time in Hawaii, and has spent summers abroad, with more adventures to come.
This wanderlust and love of novelty comes through in his work and in the sense of place with which he tries to imbue his comics. He draws on personal experiences to inform every element of the story from the scenery, depicting stylized versions of the places he's visited, to characters rooted in himself and the people in his life. Daily life is one of his richest sources of inspiration.
Jake lives in Seattle, Washington, creating new comics. He's co-founded the free comix anthology, ""Scarfff!!!,"" a newspaper distributed throughout the Seattle and San Francisco areas. | ||
Secret AcresTable 412 | “Not so secret anymore” (Douglas Wolk, Publisher’s Weekly), Secret Acres is a comics publishing company, founded in 2006. The company publishes original graphic novels, story collections and artist monographs. Secret Acres also distributes its creators’ mini-comics and other self-published works. Secret Acres can be seen exhibiting at better comics conventions throughout the year. | ||
A. DegenTable 412 | A. Degen was born in Brooklyn, New York. He began making comics with Mashcomix collective while living in Tokyo, Japan. He now lives in the United States and has published work in Japan, Europe, and America. Degen's comics draw on influences from art, literature, classic comics, pulp, mystical religion and philosophy, as well as video games. He has been published in various alternative comics anthologies such as Snakebomb, Sonatina, Futureshock, Chromazoid, Happiness, Felony and others. Degen’s first two graphic novels, Mighty Star: and The Castle of the Cancatervater and Soft X-ray/Mindhunters were published by Koyama Press. His latest graphic novel, the Marchenoir Library, will be published by Secret Acres this spring. | ||
Zak Sally/ La Mano 21Table 413 | Zak Sally is a cartoonist, musician, writer, and a few etc's past that. He has released odd handmade art objects by himself and others through his La Mano 21 imprint since 1994. | ||
Molly Colleen O'ConnellTable 414 | Molly Colleen O'Connell (b. 1986, FL) is an interdisciplinary artist and educator based in Chicago, IL. Her work mixes unbelievable truths and strange fictions to create a world of perverted feminist hallucinations. MCO’s work has been performed, screened and exhibited at the Museum of Contemporary Art (Chicago), AALA Gallery (Los Angeles), Evening Hours (New York), Waiting Room Gallery (Tokyo), Vox Populi (Philadelphia), MOHS Exhibit (Copenhagen), and sophiajacob (Baltimore). She teaches comics print & drawing courses at SAIC, DePaul & CAPE to students of many ages. | ||
Conor StechschulteTable 414 | Conor Stechschulte began self-publishing comics while attending the Maryland Institute College of Art in Baltimore. His debut graphic novel, The Amateurs was published by Fantagraphics in 2014 and translated into Italian by Edizioni 001 in 2017. He is currently serializing Generous Bosom (named one of the top 100 books of the 2010s by Comics Beat) with Breakdown Press in London. He lives in Chicago where he teaches courses in comics and self-publishing at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and helps to organize the Chicago Art Book Fair. | ||
Good-Bye PressTable 415A | Ben Marcus is an artist, publisher and DJ in Chicago | ||
Bred PressTable 415B | Bred Press is a publishing house located in Chicago and started in 2014. Run by Brad Rohloff, it publishes comics and zines, and sometimes patches or sculptures. He has fun | ||
Carl AntonowiczTable 416A | Carl Antonowicz is an Oklahoma-based cartoonist, performer, and noisician. His comics of the past 8 years have focused primarily on the Roodlands, a loosely connected series of grim medieval stories inspired by historical events. Antonowicz has produced three graphic novels in this setting thus far, with a fourth nearing completion.
His noise work as Open Casket Soundsystem is clangorous, overdriven scrap metal percussion and drones soaked in reverb. OCSS' albums have been released on Peyote Tapes and Foxy Digitalis. Antonowicz also co-hosts One Aux, an open mic event for experimental music and noise. Antonowicz's performances are adaptations of his comics work with voice acting, stage action, and live Foley effects, and have been staged all over the east coast and the midsouth. | ||
Anya DavidsonTable 416B | Anya Davidson is a cartoonist and musician living in Chicago. She is the author of several graphic novels, including Band for Life from Fantagraphics books | ||
Ravi Teixeira (HUNGER PANGS)Table 417 | Ravi Teixeira is a Cape Verdean transgender cartoonist with an affinity for gay and trans romance, historical narratives, plants and long political rants. They have self-published two books on Les Misérables and are currently working on their long form webcomic, What Happened To Us. | ||
Jaime Mosquera (HUNGER PANGS)Table 417 | Jaime Mosquera is a Colombian nonbinary artist who likes to merge the fantasy and horror genre. They spend most of their time taking care of their baby brother when not working on comics. | ||
Jonathan BaylisTable 418 | Jonathan Baylis is the author of the autobiographical comic series, So Buttons. In the tradition of Harvey Pekar's American Splendor, Baylis matches his stories with groundbreaking artists to capture down-to-earth slices of everyday life and pop culture. For over ten years, he has collected his stories into the self-published, “So Buttons” series, of which there are currently ten issues and a coupl’a specials. Find more at SoButtons.com | ||
Karl Christian KrumpholzTable 419A | Originally from a city on the East Coast, award-winning cartoonist Karl Christian Krumpholz’s work has appeared in many different formats, publications and even animated in a documentary. He is the author of several comics series set in The City including 'The Lighthouse in The City'', 'It's Oola!!', '30 Miles of Crazy!', and 'Queen City.' Karl continues to live in the city, though now a different one, and also owns way too many hats. | ||
George PorteusTable 419B | George Porteus is an artist, illustrator, and creator of zines and comics. His work is all about clean lines and polite subversion, formally diverse but thematically consistent. Recurrent fascinations include mondegreens and mass consumption. He lives with his partner and their cat on Chicago’s lower west side. | ||
Eileen ChavezTable 420A | Eileen Chavez is an alternative comics artist formerly based out of Portland, OR now in Chicago, IL. They make art about navigating heavy emotional states and healing from trauma. | ||
Sam SzaboTable 420B | Sam Szabo is a breathtakingly gorgeous cartoonist and performance artist currently based in Chicago, IL. She has self-published dozens of comics and zines, including "Girl Hell," "Momix," and "Fear And What To Do With It." She is the author of this paragraph. | ||
Silver SprocketTable 421, 422A | Silver Sprocket is a radical indie publisher, art-crew, gallery, and comic shop from San Francisco, CA, working with artists from all over the world. We strive to build a better world through direct empowerment and activism, without taking ourselves to seriously or forgetting to have a good time. Everything is creator-owned with artists calling their own shots and getting complete transparency on all decisions and accounting. Creators include Abby Jame, Ben Passmore, Ben Snakepit, Benji Nate, Caroline Cash, Casey Nowak, Cristy C Road, Dave Baker, Erin K Wilson, Hazel Newlevant, Hyena Hell, Isabella Rotman, Eddy Atoms, James the Stanton, Janelle Hessig, Jenn Woodall, Liz Prince, Liz Suburbia, Michael Sweater, Mitch Clem, Nicole Goux, Olivia Walch, Pseudonym Jones, Seth Katz, and Tom Neely. | ||
Caroline CashTable 422B | Cash is a Chicago based cartoonist. Her graphic novel Girl in the World is out with Silver Sprocket. She is currently working on her Ignatz award winning series PeePeePooPoo. | ||
Megan KelsoTable 423 | Megan Kelso has been drawing comics for over 30 years. In 2007, she was invited by The New York Times to serialize her "Watergate Sue" comic as part of the weekly "Funny Pages" feature. In 2019, she was selected for a public art commission for Climate Pledge Arena in Seattle. Her books include The Squirrel Mother (2006), Artichoke Tales (2010), and Queen of the Black Black (2011). She lives in Seattle, WA with her husband and daughter. | ||
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Landis BlairTable 424B | Landis Blair is the author and illustrator of The Envious Siblings and Other Morbid Nursery Rhymes, as well as the illustrator of the New York Times bestseller From Here to Eternity and the graphic novel The Hunting Accident, which won Best in Adult Books at the Excellence in Graphic Literature awards. He has published illustrations in the New York Times, Chicago magazine, VQR, and Medium. He lives in Oak Park, Illinois. | ||
Chloë PerkisTable 501A | Chloë Perkis is a non-binary artist from Chicago. Their works involves ceramics, comics, painting, and printmaking. Their book UGLY was selected for Best American Comics 2018. ஐ₊✧ ू(◕ ․̫ ◕ ू)✧₊ஐ | ||
Julia GfrörerTable 501B | Julia Gfrörer ("grow fairer") is a writer and artist whose comics have appeared in Kramers Ergot, The Nib, and three volumes of Best American Comics. She also self-publishes zines and minicomics under her imprint Thuban Press. Her graphic novels, Laid Waste, Black Is the Color, and Vision, are available from Fantagraphics Books. | ||
mancameronTable 502A | Cameron (aka mancameron) is a bisexual comic artist, graphic designer, and illustrator based near Nashville, TN. His work is frequently spooky, warped, and drenched in hot pink. His comic work ranges from adult fantasy romance to emotionally bare autobiography, and his designs are featured on apparel, enamel pins, and much more. | ||
Carmen JohnsTable 502B | Carmen Johns is a human cartoonist based in SF! | ||
Amy LockhartTable 503A | Amy Lockhart makes comics and animation. Her drawings, comics and paintings have been published by Fantagraphics (Ditch Life, 2019), Drawn & Quarterly (Dirty Dishes, 2009), and by Colour Code (Looking Inward, 2016). Her animations have screened at festivals nationally and internationally, including the Whitney, N.Y., British Film Institute, N.Y. Anthology Film Archives, Ann Arbor Film Festival and International Animation Festival in Hiroshima, Japan.
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Pete FaeckeTable 503B | Pete Faecke is a weirdo cartoonist living in the twin cities. His work revolves around loving comics, fetishizing men, and trying to unlearn capitalist socialization.
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GelkhehtTable 504A | Gelkheht is a collaborative project between Yewon Kwon and Benjamin Kraco, utilizing audio and visual elements in a uniquely printed package. In addition, Yewon and Benjamin also create their own individual works and publications using traditional methods of print, such as Risograph printing, Screenprinting, and Offset printing. Yewon also publishes the collective series PALLOR PINK. | ||
Bonnie GuerraTable 504B | Bonnie Guerra is a trans cartoonist based in Chicago Il, her work has been featured in vice as well as various anthologies. She is the editor of Sonic Heaven, an indie comics Sonic the HedgeHog Fan zine. | ||
Gabi CracraftTable 504B | Gabi is an Illustrator and occasional comics maker, they love alternative fashion, drawing dogs, and their cat Clara. | ||
Grace Allison PerkinsTable 505A | Grace Allison Perkins is a queer / non-binary comic artist based in central Texas who loves to write narratives centered around honest representations of intimacy. Most of their current comics are development works towards their soon to be released webcomic detailing the story of their characters Andrew and Mason and how they eventually come to fall in love with each other in their adulthood.
Grace aims to offer a small peek into a very emotive, longer length series exploring themes of queer romance, coming of age, and symbolism regarding the complex feelings we feel about relationships. | ||
Corinne HalbertTable 505B | Corinne Halbert is a psychedelic horror artist with an extensive book collection. Her work is heavily influenced by an avid obsession with 1970s cult films and vintage comics. Halbert reads tarot professionally and has a burning fascination with all things occult and esoteric. Her paintings explore dark feminine energy and are heightened by the use of bold, bright colors and long, sharp fangs. Her adept skills for plucking the hidden mysteries beyond the veil and depicting them in her artwork brings a shiver to the spine. Halbert's work will appear in two new comics anthologies, Viscere #1 and Meanwhile later this year. She's the creator of Acid Nun, published by Silver Sprocket in 2022. | ||
Grant ReynoldsTable 506A | Grant Reynolds is a cartoonist living in Chicago. His comic Radio Silence was selected for Houghton Mifflin’s Best American Comics 2017. He's currently working on a series of autobio comics. | ||
Aaron RenierTable 506A | Aaron Renier is the author of three graphic novels for younger readers; Spiral-Bound, Walker Bean, and Walker Bean and the Knights of the Waxing Moon. He is the recipient of the Eisner award in 2006 for talent deserving of wider recognition, and was an inaugural resident for the Sendak Fellowship in 2010. His current series Unchained Melanie is updated regularly on ig. | ||
Blue DelliquantiTable 506B | Blue Delliquanti is a comic artist and writer based in Minneapolis. Blue has serialized the comic O Human Star online since 2012, and is the co-creator of the graphic novel Meal with Soleil Ho. Blue's next book, Across A Field Of Starlight, will be published by Random House in 2022. | ||
Iron Circus ComicsTable 507 | Iron Circus Comics is Chicago's largest comics publisher, with a mission statement focusing on publishing and elevating The Strange and Amazing. | ||
Johnny SampsonTable 508 | Johnny Sampson (b. 1974) is an award-winning cartoonist living in Glen Ellyn, IL with his wife, two kids, and dog. A longtime freelance illustrator with clients such as Abrams, Chronicle Books, The Reader, The Stranger, General Mills, and many more, he has truly found his calling as one of the “Usual Gang of Idiots” at MAD Magazine– for which, with Al Jaffee’s blessing, he has taken on the mantle of writer and artist of the famed MAD Fold-In. Against his better judgement, he still self-publishes his own comics and zines. He has been a proud member of the National Cartoonists Society since 2018 and currently serves as the Chicago Chapter Chair (hit him up if you're curious). | ||
Will CardiniTable 509A | Will Cardini's comics include Vortex and Tales from the Hyperverse. He lives in Kansas City, Missouri, with his wife and daughter. | ||
Ruby LaPortaTable 509B | Ruby LaPorta is a multi-media artist and musician born and raised in Chicago. Much of what she creates serves as a child-like rendering of what we observe in actual space, frequently embellished to exaggerate or alter the subject into make-believe. She is currently working on an apocalyptic, gay girl gang serial comic. She loves FRUiTS Magazine and collectible toys. | ||
Emma PunchTable 509B | Emma Punch is creating art for anyone who wants to look at it. As we all know, that’s the beauty of print media! The democratic multiple; anyone who wants to look at it can, not only look, but also have the “thing.” Through print media she wants to share the “things” in her head through a beautiful and tactile printed objects. Many of the images she creates revolve around puns, plays on words, or any banal phrase that becomes stuck in her head as she is drudging through her daily routine. | ||
Nell McKeonTable 510A | Nell McKeon is a comics futurist interested in alternative and abstract methods of cartooning/representing femme identities. | ||
Matt MacFarlandTable 510B | Matt MacFarland is a Contemporary cartoonist and Teacher that lives with his wife and kids in Alhambra, Ca. He has made comics about his teaching experiences, a pair of pants, his dad, and R. Crumb | ||
Rodger BinyoneTable 511 | 1 person self-publishing books, comix, zines & prints from home in Philadelphia since 2000 | ||
Coleton MastickTable 512A | Coleton Mastick is a Chicago based cartoonist. Fueled on large amounts of coffee and an overactive imagination, his work focuses around fantasy, sci-fi and weird humorous adventures. | ||
Ellen LindnerTable 512B | Ellen Lindner is the author of the Ignatz-nominated graphic novel The Black Feather Falls. She is currently at work on a series of nonfiction comics about women, baseball and social change, called ;The Cranklet's Chronicle." Ellen is also the editor of The Strumpet, a zine celebrating comics by women-identifying comics artists. Her illustration clients include DotDash, Simon and Schuster, LEGO, SONY Playstation, Ray-Ban, Bloomsbury, Bitch Magazine and Workman Publishing. A member of the ART HQ cartooning studio, she lives in upper Manhattan with a very nice human, two bossy cats, and a growing collection of plants. You can see more of Ellen's work at littlewhitebird.com |