CAKE applications have been extended! Did you get your application in? Cakechicago.com/apply

Applications are now open for CAKE 2026! Apply online at cakechicago.com/apply until Jan 5th.

Applications are now open for CAKE 2026! Apply online at cakechicago.com/apply until Jan 5th.

Applications for CAKE 2026 open December 1st! The Chicago Alternative Comics Expo (CAKE) returns May 2nd and 3rd at the Irish American Heritage Center in Chicago’s Mayfair neighborhood. We can’t wait to see you there!

Attention CAKE 2025 exhibitors! We sent out our post-show feedback form but it may have gone to your spam folders! If you have a chance please double check and fill out the survey so we can keep improving our show!

Thanks to everyone who came to the @cakechicago.bsky.social after party last night!! Every reader did such an incredible job and Bianca Xunise truly curated a fantastic show!! If you liked the bit I read, consider getting Wine Ghost goes to Hell! On sale on @ironcircuscomics.bsky.social's website!

Day two, but this time I actually slept! AAAAAAAAA!!

CAKE!! I sold just about every comic I brought yesterday 😵 swing by and grab the last few and maybe a print ok!!

CAKE is open!! Day two!! Join us at the Irish American Heritage Center from 11am - 5pm 4626 N Knox Avenue in the Mayfair neighborhood 🍰🍰🍰

@cakechicago.bsky.social day 2! Also last copy of GAME OVER MAN (maybe ever?)

YOU HEARD THE MAN

It's Day 2 of @cakechicago.bsky.social listen to JD and come on down 🌞

Find me at the Chicago Alternative Comics Expo! Table 601A. @cakechicago.bsky.social

all set up for @cakechicago.bsky.social ! Come on by! 🍰

Find me at @cakechicago.bsky.social all weekend!

I'm at @cakechicago.bsky.social selling books for @ironcircuscomics.bsky.social, I'm melting but doing good! Buried in books!

Biking to CAKE?? The IAHC has bike racks located BEHIND the building, on Kilpatrick Avenue!

See you soon, @cakechicago.bsky.social ! This is my only show of the year, so please come say hello, table 307B!

I may be at the ALA conference in Pittsburgh, but remember, @ironcircuscomics.bsky.social is at @cakechicago.bsky.social this weekend! Drop by!

Setting up!! The new @cakechicago.bsky.social venue at the Irish American Heritage Center is really beautiful- and nicely air conditioned ^_^

All set up and ready to go! I'm in the farthest corner, come find me 😏 @cakechicago.bsky.social

We're not at CAKE this year but you should absolutely go if you're in town!

Hey hey. We’re all set up at @cakechicago.bsky.social Come grab a FREE Howling Page or a consignment form. Or pick up one of the last copies of Matthew Allison’s Hopped Up or a t-shirt or a new print from yours truly or just browse the sampling from the shop. Anyway, hit it!!

Biking to CAKE?? The IAHC has bike racks located BEHIND the building, on Kilpatrick Avenue!

Some bags never go out of style

You, too, can look this good! Come on down to the Irish American Heritage Center today or tomorrow to pick up a shirt featuring this year’s CAKE poster artist, Mike Centeno! #CAKE2025

Ooh lord, she’s comin’! #CAKE2025

Who said comics aren’t literature?? (Come see me this weekend at @cakechicago.bsky.social please)

time once again to celebrate the beloved and eternal 🕊️ (see you soon Chicago @cakechicago.bsky.social)

I am Babygirl, risograph automaton. Much work has been done in preparation for @cakechicago.bsky.social I am coughing up ink that is also my blood. I am a robot, I Love you. see you in chicago

New mini zine for CAKE this weekend. Find out what my weird unattainable beauty ideal is. @cakechicago.bsky.social

Animation, readings, and more – oh my! Plan your CAKE calendar using the link in our bio. Read full descriptions, get to know the presenters, and get pumped! 🎉

I'll have the last two ever issues of No Pants 2 @cakechicago.bsky.social with me this weekend. They'll be a part of this limited edition collector's pack that includes No Pants 1-4 and a sticker!

FREE consultations available! Sign up to get personalized help from an @printninja expert on Saturday :sunglasses: Click the link in the bio to snag your spot!

If our last programming post wasn’t enough of a teaser, we’ve got more! Learn something new with expert instructors for FREE at CAKE this weekend 🌟 Click that bio link for all the details!

Debuting at @cakechicago.bsky.social  this weekend: my new mini “Prophets of Disclosure”. This is your guide to the key figures in UFOlogy, conspiracies, and disclosure. Very limited print run, so get yours early!

Pretending to be this weird little dude, made out of bad magic, cooked in a vat of chemical waste, who’s only purpose used to be doin the dark bidding of the Wizard King who created me - ‘till I killed him. Now what? A DIY your own Vat Spawn workshop! See you at @cakechicago.bsky.social sat!

ALSO! #Chicago! I will be at @cakechicago.bsky.social this weekend! The show is at the Irish American Heritage Center, an easy walk from the Montrose blue line stop. It'll be full of amazing art and it's free to attend. www.cakechicago.com/cake-2025

Oh, that's right! I'm gonna be at @cakechicago.bsky.social this weekend selling comics for @ironcircuscomics.bsky.social! My girlfriend is gonna be my helper and booth babe >:3

Things are heating up in Chicago, and with CAKE! We’ve got something for everyone in our program lineup, and we’re kicking things off with our Special Guest programs 🔥 Use the link in our bio to get the full descriptions!

Teaming up with Wizard Staffing Co to bring a hit of the Bongcano to @cakechicago.bsky.social! Join us on 6/28, at 2:15, in room 311 for a guided tour through the pain of existence, laboring under a Wizard King, and the joy of creating a VAT SPAWN who can kill 'em. DEATH TO THE WIZARD KINGS.

The fun doesn't stop when the show ends! Check out out After-CAKE events! Saturday 6/26 at Tangible Books hosted by Max Huffman and CRAM Books and Sunday 6/29 at The Native hosted by Bianca Xunise!

Surprise! We're throwing a comics reading for @cakechicago.bsky.social. Saturday night, 8pm, Tangible Books, free.

My new 40-page horror comic "The Basilisk" debuts at @cakechicago.bsky.social in a couple of weeks, but you can preorder it now. www.etsy.com/listing/4321...

CAKE is just under two weeks away!!!! We've added our 2025 Programming Schedule to our website featuring some amazing panels and workshops hosted by our special guests and sponsors. Plan for the weekend by checking it out here: www.cakechicago.com/25schedule

Introducing CAKE 2025 Special Guest KOREANGRY! Eunsoo Jeong is an LA-based artist & creator of Koreangry. Based on her daily struggles as a Korean-American, Koreangry illustrates the artist's life through an asian gumby lookalike, with a hint of humor and empathy in a handmade world. koreangry.com

Introducing CAKE 2025 Special Guest Malachi Ward! Malachi Ward @malachiward.bsky.social makes comics like Black Hammer, Ancestor, and Expansion. He draws covers for Star Trek, illustrations for The New Yorker and draws backgrounds for Green Street, Netflix, and Titmouse. malachiwardportfolio.com

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Introducing CAKE 2025 Special Guest, Geneva Bowers! @gdbee.bsky.social Geneva is a Hugo Award–winning illustrator whose work focuses on magic realism and nostalgia. She aims to make people smile while showing a piece of how beautiful life can be. genevab.com

Introducing CAKE 2025 Special Guest, Caroline Hu! (@hudrewthis.bsky.social) Caroline Hu is a cartoonist, science communicator, and biology professor based in Boston. hudrewthis.com