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One week left to apply to CAKE 2025! Cakechicago.com/apply

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Applications are OPEN not just for CAKE 2025, but for our CUPCAKE AWARD! The Cupcake is CAKE's micro-grant and professional mini comic mentorship program, open to early-career self-publishing cartoonists! Apply before 3/28 at www.cakechicago.com/cupcake-award

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Applications are OPEN for CAKE 2025! We’d love to see you in June! cakechicago.com/apply

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Apps are OPEN for CAKE 2025! cakechicago.com/apply

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Applications are OPEN for CAKE 2025! We’d love to see you in June! cakechicago.com/apply

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Mark your calendars for the 2025 CAKE Auction Fundraiser! April 11th 2025, at the Revolution Brewery Tap Room (3340 N Kedzie) from 7-10pm! Live Auction! Silent Auction! Raffle! plus Comics Readings! and the triumphant return of our honored host DJ LITTLE DEBBIE

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New venue secured, dates set, all we need is you! Exhibitor application details coming shortly…

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Learn what makes a sports comic spectacular! This Wednesday, November 13th, at 5pm join one of our 2024 sponsors, First Aid Comics in welcoming Maddie Gallegos, author of the middle grade graphic novel Match Point!, for an author talk and signing! www.firstaidcomics.com/first-aid-co...

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“It’s exciting to expand people’s definition of the word ‘comics’ across the spectrum of storytelling,” Kevin Budnik on helping organize CAKE. Thank you to Block Club Chicago for interviewing 2 of our lovely organizers @osoart.bsky.social & Kevin Budnik!! blockclubchicago.org/2024/08/21/c...

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🍂 IT'S CON SEASON 🍂 See where I'll be this Fall with all my usual wares PLUS the ✨BRAND NEW✨ issue of THE CATALOGUE 🐈‍⬛ SCHEDULE: 🍰 @cakechicago.bsky.social - Chicago, IL - 8/24-8/25 🌟 @smallpressexpo.bsky.social - Bethesda, MD - 9/14-9/15 📚 Non-Fiction Comics Festival - Burlington, VT -11/16

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I’m packing & preppin’ up to be at @cakechicago.bsky.social this weekend at Zhou B. Art Center! Please come support all the amazing comics creators there. The show is open to the public and runs 11-6pm Sat. & 11-5pm Sun. I’ll be tabling at 107A. Come for the CAKE, stay for the comics!! 🎂🍰🧁💖✨

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Hey, @cakechicago.bsky.social is this weekend! I'm at 216B. If you're in Chicago, come check it out, I'll have comic book cookbooks and minicomics and even some puzzles! And @smallpressexpo.bsky.social is coming up! I'll be there at table H3. I haven't done SPX in ages*and I can't wait to see you!

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I will be debuting two very, very dumb 8 page mini-zines at @cakechicago.bsky.social this weekend that I made for fun.

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hey hey! I’ll be tabling at @cakechicago.bsky.social this weekend! Table 122A, on the first floor! come by and say hi, I’ve got all kinds of comics, new stickers, and a general good vibe! see ya there!!!

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oh hey! I'll be at CAKE this wknd. Say howdy! 🍕👋

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This weekend, I'm debuting my new art book zines, The Black Cat Sketchbook and The Good Dog Sketchbook, at @cakechicago.bsky.social First Slice Table! Some of my book is art I've posted, and others I haven't, so if you have a weekend free come stop by the Zhou B Art Center!

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I've added a new date to my con schedule! Buy a copy of DEATH STRIKES at @cakechicago.bsky.social in Chicago, Aug. 14-15th!

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As cases go up, we highly encourage masking this weekend! Masks & hand sanitizer will be available for all CAKE attendees & exhibitors while supplies last. CAKE's Covid-19 policy here: www.cakechicago.com/covid19-policy Thank you to Clean Air Club Chicago for loaning air purifiers to the show!

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I’m gonna be at @cakechicago.bsky.social !!! It’s sneaking up on us real quick

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Slime (2020) Finally Debuting at @cakechicago.bsky.social Show up and ask me in person why I made this.

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Here's my fall schedule!! I'll be doing Autoptic, @cakechicago.bsky.social, @smallpressexpo.bsky.social, MILK, CXC and Philly Comics Expo! Got something cooking to the tail end of Oct for Wine Ghost too but that's not a convention so ya gotta wait! See y'all on the road! 🍷👻

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Hey folks! @cakechicago.bsky.social approaches! I'll be there on the second floor with lots of recipe comics, minicomics, prints and even a few jigsaw puzzles! August 24-25, 2024 11 am – 6 pm Zhou B Art Center 1029 W 35th St, Chicago FREE and open to the public! www.cakechicago.com

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Working a print for @cakechicago.bsky.social . I’ll be there at table 215A with my new book Hearing Things, as well as a bunch of other comics and stuff

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Find us at table 139 at @cakechicago.bsky.social next weekend!!! We'll have all the usuals plus early reader copies of our two new books! If you like them you can pre-order with free shipping on our website 😁

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cover reveal of my upcoming work, The Tallest Star in the Sky, debuting at 🍰 @cakechicago.bsky.social and made through the 🧁 cupCAKE award + mentorship with @clementework.com! i am very nervous and excited to see how people respond to my work (,,>﹏<,,)👉🏼👈🏼 🐐🐒🌻 #comics #minotaur #art

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Chicago! Next weekend— August 24-25– I’ll be selling books & prints at @cakechicago.bsky.social (Zhou B. Art Center, 1029 W. 35th). Come find me at table 256A!

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Next weekend, I'll be at @cakechicago.bsky.social premiering the print version of 100 Light Years of Solitude by @longtalljodie.com and myself. A 20 page comic about space tourism, escaping everyone, and finding connections in unexpected places.

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I'll be there as well! I'm so beyond thrilled to be tabling at my hometown show again 😊 very excited to see all of you there!

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I'm so excited to be returning to @cakechicago.bsky.social – I'm getting a bunch of fun stuff ready including a really cool panel so stay tuned!!

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🌞CAKE 2024 POSTER REVEAL!🌞 Join us at the Zhou B Art Center 8/24-25 for a 2-day celebration of alternative comix w/ Special Guests @keefknight.bsky.social, Sam Szabo, @trungles.bsky.social, @ronaldwim.bsky.social, @charmgardens.bsky.social & @bethhetland.bsky.social! Free Admission🦋Masks Encouraged

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Are you pumped for CAKE?! We are! This year's lovely CAKE logo is by the lovely Jasjyot Singh Hans! Jasjyot is inspired by fashion & pop culture & he delivered us an absolute ICON. This design POPs on a shirt too! Stay tuned for our 2024 Poster, Special Guests Announcements & Programming.

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Gonna be at @cakechicago.bsky.social this year, once again reppin and selling comics for @ironcircuscomics.bsky.social come say hiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii!

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All exhibitor notifications have gone out so if you're wondering if you got into CAKE 2024, that answer is in your inbox! Don't forget to check your spam! Also, If you're paying for your table via venmo, make sure that payment is going to cake-chicago (The one w/ the blue icon!)

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Mark you calendars this time 2025! The @NewberryLibrary will be hosting Cartooning the Medieval: This symposium will bring together medievalists & cartoonists to explore comics as a means to create interest outside academia in engaging with medieval culture. www.newberry.org/calendar/car...

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yday was mine and SUPERPOSE's birthday, now it's gay's birthday(?) so i invite you to come eat up! 🖤 superposecomic.com a dark, sweeping transqueer sci-fi from 198X. in a desperate shot at a future, 3 kids stake everything on the construction of their unprecedented & unpredictable machine ✶ #Pride

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A Night Ride to the Day by Breeze Hu is now on Kickstarter! A surrealist drama about coming to terms with one's life & the world around them; reminiscent of Drive My Car or movies by Satoshi Kon. Get a copy now: kickstarter.com/projects/bulgilhan/the-kings-warrior-and-a-night-ride-to-the-day

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With pieces from Jasjyot Singh Hans (This year's CAKE poster artist!) a 2 page spread by Krystal DiFronzo & an original from Sam Szabo depicting the cartoonists behind Poison Pill! This year is stacked w/ fantastic works up for bid! See y'all THIS SATURDAY at Kedzie Taproom 7pm-10pm!

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I think this is the 1st time we've had a 4-DAY GETAWAY as an Art Auction Prize. Whether you want to organize a meeting of the minds or kick back by the Boardman river in MI, it's up to you! Bid on this and more at the CAKE Art Auction Fundraiser THIS SAT at the Kedzie Taproom!

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@sarahbecan.bsky.social original?! SIGNED Nicole Hollander Sylvia Prints?! and even a @younghorses.com BUGSNAX CARD GAME PROTOTYPE?! Oh my! With Raffle prizes, readings & more you won't wanna miss this year's Art Auction Fundraiser. Join us at Revolution Brewing's Kedzie Taproom THIS SAT 7pm-10pm!

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🎵We got the stuff 🎸🎸we got the GOOD STUFF! 🎸🎸At the ART AUCTION Fundraiser for CAKE we got the GOOD STUFF!🎵 - Live performance by @bethhetland.bsky.social as DJ Lil Debbie w/ Kyle O'Connell - Comix readings by Kelsey Borch & Jeremy Tinder - Original art + more!! MAY 25TH at Kedzie Taproom 7pm-10pm

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CAKE is super excited to announce our first fundraising event since 2019! Save the date: May 25th 7pm. We’ll be auctioning off art from all of your favorite indie cartoonists, raffling off tons of comic and art goodies, live comic readings and beer! Poster art by Jose Garibaldi

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