ABOUT 2019 EXPO RESOURCES VOLUNTEERS SPONSORS PROMOTION CONTACT Guest & Exhibitor List Our Guest & Exhibitor list was last updated on Tuesday June 2, 2015 While not marked on the map, the “A” side of each table is next to the preceeding table, while the “B” side of each table is next to the proceeding table. SPECIAL GUESTS My name is Eleanor Davis. I’m a cartoonist and illustrator. I have a collection of my short comics for adults called How To Be Happy, from Fantagraphics Books. I’ve done two comics for kids called The Secret Science Alliance and Stinky. I live in Athens, Georgia with my husband Drew Weing. http://doing-ne.com TABLE 60 Eleanor Davis Gilbert Hernandez, born in 1957, is an award-winning cartoonist of the independent comic series, Love and Rockets (along with his brother, Jaime Hernandez) which has been published by Fantagraphics for the last 32 years. From 1983 to 1996, Gilbert produced the now legendary Palomar saga, collected in the graphic novels Heartbreak Soup and Human Diastrophism, and considered to be one of the dening bodies of literature of its era. His latest collection is Luba and Her Family and the stand alone, Julio’s Day. Gilbert lives in Las Vegas, NV, with his wife Carol and daughter Natalia. http://fantagraphics.com/gilberthernandez TABLE 9 Gilbert Hernandez Jaime Hernandez is an award-winning cartoonist of the independent comic series, Love and Rockets (along with his brother, Gilbert Hernandez), which has been published by Fantagraphics for the last 32 years. He lives in LA and likes it that way. “Jaime’s Maggie [is one] of the great characters in contemporary American ction.” – LA Weekly “Not like it needs saying, but Jaime Hernandez is a goddamn genius.” – Resonance Jaime Hernandez http://fantagraphics.com/jaimehernandez TABLE 9 Keiler Roberts teaches at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and DePaul University. Her autobiographical comic, Powdered Milk has received three Ignatz nominations and was included in The Best American Comics 2014 Notables List. Her work has been published in The Chicago Reader, Mutha Magazine and Newcity. She was special guest at Chicago Zine Fest 2013, a panelist at CAKE 2011, and performed at Brainframe. Keiler Roberts http://keilerroberts.com TABLE 19 Zak Sally is a writer, musician, educator, and the cartoonist responsible for the Sammy The Mouse series (published by Fantagraphics, La Mano, and Uncivilized Books), as well as the Eisner nominated Recidivist (of which the 4th volume was just released). He is also the owner and founder of La Mano, a DIY micro press that hand prints and assembles its own stu, featuring artists such as John Porcellino, Kim Deitch and numerous others. In 2014, he co-founded SCHOOLHAUS, an experimental art education program in Minneapolis. http://zaksally.com http://lamano21.com TABLE 85 Zak Sally Dash Shaw is a cartoonist and animator whose graphic novel, New School, was named one of the best books of 2013 by NPR. His other recent books include BodyWorld and Bottomless Belly Button. His animated works include the Sigur Ros video “Seraph”, “Wheel of Fortune”, and the ifc series “The Unclothed Man in the 35th Century AD.” His new graphic novel Doctors, about doctors who enter deceased people’s afterlives to bring them back from the dead, came out last year Dash Shaw from Fantagraphics Books. He lives in Brooklyn, New York. http://dashshaw.com TABLES 7 & 8 Jillian Tamaki is a Canadian illustrator and cartoonist. Her illustrations have won gold medals from the Society of Illustrators and the Society of Publication Designers. With her cousin Mariko Tamaki, Jillian is the co-creator of the graphic novels SKIM, which was one of the New York Times‘ Best Illustrated Books of 2008; and THIS ONE SUMMER, which won the 2014 Governor-General’s Award. Jillian’s three books of Jillian Tamaki personal work are GILDED LILIES (2006), INDOOR VOICE (2010), and SUPERMUTANT MAGIC ACADEMY, which will debut at CAKE. The hilarious SUPERMUTANT MAGIC ACADEMY draws from Jillian’s Ignatz Award-winning webcomic and concludes the story of life at the academy. http://jilliantamaki.com/illustration TABLE 65 Lale Westvind is the creator of over a dozen self-published comics including Hot Dog Beach, Hyperspeed to Nowhere and Express Less. She lives and works in her native New York City. http://lalewestvind.com TABLE 95B Lale Westvind EXHIBITORS Bred Press Bred Press is an artist books, comics, and zine publishing house located in Chicago. Started by Brad Rohlo¶ in 2014, it provides a platform by which to support contemporary artists working within the medium of printed and published matter. http://bredpress.com TABLE 90B Kevin Budnik Kevin Budnik is an cartoonist and illustrator from Chicago. He has been producing comics steadily since 2010. His comics are largely autobiographical, and explore Kevin’s coming to terms with anxiety and adulthood. Kevin’s books include Dust Motes (Yeti Press), Old Gum Wrappers and Grocery Lists, and Flower Grow (self-published). His newest series, Handbook, is written in part from journals he kept in therapy for disordered eating. http://kevin-budnik.tumblr.com TABLE 88B Comic artist and illustrator with a focus on fantasy and history. Friend to all animals. https://behance.net/azakhm TABLE 14B Z Akhmetova Sam Alden is a cartoonist from Portland, OR. http://gingerlandcomics.com TABLE 69B Sam Alden Whitney Allen is an artist and musician based out of Chicago since 2007. Her work explores the grotesque, sensual, & absurd. She creates one-o art books, iers for music shows, & self-publishes small comics. Last year, Allen tabled with CAKE featured artist Carrie Vinarsky and artist Brett Manning. The three collaborated on “Burn Your Money,” a print specically made for the fest. http://loupgarouterrible.tumblr.com Whitney Allen TABLE 44A David Alvarado is an illustrator and cartoonist. He comes from the Chicago land area. His interest are zines, comics, printmaking, and typography. He enjoys the months of summer, playing records, ice cream, and petting dogs. http://hello-david.com TABLE 90A David Alvardo “Andrice co-edited and co-founded Hi-Horse Comics in 2001, and has had work in anthologies such as Mome, Scheherazade, the Graphic Canon, Runner Runner, and the Big Feminist But. She does things backwards, and is just now getting around to making her rst minicomics and zines. http://interlineargloss.tumblr.com https://etsy.com/shop/hihorse Andrice Arp TABLE 34A Fiona Avocado makes comics as a means to explore everyday life, current events, Fiona Avocado alternate universes, and glittery daydreams. She resides in Minneapolis, Fiona Avocado Minnesota. http://onavocado.com TABLE 46B Comix creator Derf Backderf is a longtime resident of bucolic Cleveland. He is the author of three graphic novels Punk Rock & Trailer Parks (SLG Publishing, 2009) and My Friend Dahmer (Abrams Comicarts, 2012) and the upcoming Trashed (Abrams Comicarts, Fall 2015). He has been awarded a Robert F. Kennedy Award for political cartooning, an Angoulême Prize and been nominated for several Eisner, Harvey, Reuben and Ignatz Awards. Derf Backderf His latest book is True Stories: Volume One (Alternative Comics), a collection of one- page short stories. http://derfcity.com TABLE 25B Cara Bean is a Boston area cartoonist and teacher. She attends the 2014-15 program at the Sequential Artists Workshop. Her Gorilla Year series has received critical praise for tackling autobiographical issues in an innovative form. Her more lighthearted works playfully tackle heavier issues surrounding childhood. URL TABLE 50B Cara Bean Nate Beaty draws comics 142 days a year in the li’l workin’ city of Chicago, Illinois. Collect all of his elusive funny pamphlets. http://natebeaty.com TABLE 17A Nate Beaty Sarah Becan is a comics artist, author, illustrator and designer based in Chicago, Sarah Becan and the creator of “I Think You’re Sauceome”, a food-centric autobiographical Sarah Becan webcomic. She was awarded a Xeric Award and a Stumptown Trophy for Outstanding Debut for her rst graphic novel, The Complete Ouija Interviews, and her work has twice been nominated for the Ignatz Award. Becan’s second graphic novel, Shuteye, was funded with a successful Kickstarter campaign and released in early 2012. Sarah is a core contributor to Cartozia Tales, and most recently, she nished producing Luna de Cuernos, a long form graphic story for Fifth House Ensemble’s 2014 concert series. http://sarahbecan.com TABLE 71A Believed Behavior is a Chicago-based small press publisher founded in 2013. The agship publication is the Believed Behavior anthology that features alternative/art cartoonists interested in challenging the comics medium in print and web. http://believedbehavior.com TABLE 92B Tyler Boss was born in America. He makes comics and paintings. http://inklledsea.tumblr.com TABLE 15A Tyler Boss Mandie Brasington is a recent graduate from the Minneapolis College of Art and Design (MCAD) who has been self-publishing for four years. Her work focuses on a female perspective and often deals with themes of trauma and abnormal psychology. These themes are enhanced threw use of dierent physical presentations of the comics from embroidered books, whose stitching emulates fresh wounds, to paper doll comics that have to be ripped open layer by layer to Mandie brasington reveal their narrative. You can see more of her work on her tumblr: Mmbrasington.tumblr.com. http://cargocollective.com/Mmbrasington TABLE 58B Tony Breed is the man behind the new web comic Muddlers Beat (http://muddlersbeat.com) and the Ignatz-nominated web comic Finn and Charlie are Hitched (http://hitchedcomic.com). Both are newspaper style slice-of-life-comics with the same cast. Muddlers Beat is about the creative oundering of a group of young and middle-aged people; Hitched tells the story of married gay couple and Tony Breed their friends.