As some of you already know, around here I’m talking mostly about comics (indie, underground, alternative or whatever) from North America and so I find a festival as the Chicago Alternative Comics Expo (CAKE for friends) very interesting, since it gathers a lot of cool cartoonists and publishers from United States and Canada. Even if I wasn’t there on June 6-7, I decided to dedicate a gallery at this event, assembling photos I saw on the various social networks. All the pictures are used with the permission of the authors and if I made any mistake or I’ve forgotten to mention someone, please contact me at justindiecomics [at] gmail [dot] com. Many thanks to everyone for the cooperation. Just click on any image to open the gallery.
- Entrance! (photo by Jared Smith)
- Registration is open (photo by Chester Alamo-Costello)
- The fest just before the door opened (photo by J Derf Backderf)
- CAKE! (photo by Corinne Halbert)
- Retrofit Comics table (photo by Jared Smith)
- Sam Alden (photo by Jared Smith)
- Roman Muradov (photo by Jared Smith)
- Ed Luce’s table with many issues of “Wuvable Oaf”
- Another pic of Ed Luce’s table
- The Ladydrawers Comics Collective at CAKE (photo by Delia Jean)
- Jillian Tamaki signing (photo by Matt Brady)
- Sophie McMahan (photo by Polly Bland)
- Another pic of Sophie McMahan’s table
- Ed Kanerva at Koyama Press table (photo by Matt Brady)
- Nathan Ward (photo by Matt Brady)
- Gilbert and Jaime Hernandez (photo by Chester Alamo-Costello)
- John Porcellino (photo by Matt Brady)
- CAKE by Chris Cilla
- Chris Cilla’s table
- Zak Sally (photo by Matt Brady)
- Scott Roberts with Keiler Roberts, one of the special guests of the show
- Keiler Roberts’ table with the new “Miseryland”
- CAKE 2K15 (photo by Marco Giampaolo)
- Kelly Froh and Max Clotfelter (photo by Marco Giampaolo)
- J Derf Backderf signing (photo by Gene Kannenberg Jr)
- Gene Kannenberg Jr in a Joey Ramone shirt by J Derf Backderf
- Garfield at CAKE! (photo by Alex Nall)
- Darling Sleeper table (photo by Jesse Lucas)
- Ryan Standfest of Rotland Press with Paul Nudd
- Rotland Press table (photo by Ryan Standfest)
- Paul Nudd and Onsmith (photo by Chester Alamo-Costello)
- The Los Bros Hernandez panel (photo by Gene Kannenberg Jr.)
- Caitlin McGurk interviewed Los Bros Hernandez
- Gina Wynbrandt at the 2D Cloud table
- Corinne Halbert with her books “Hate Baby Four” and “Bad Touch” (with Scott R Miller)
- Matthew Thurber (photo by Chester Alamo-Costello)
- Sophie Goldstein
- CAKE Kick-Off, Archer Ballroom, 6-5-15 (photo by Chester Alamo-Costello)
- CAKE haul by Cathy Hannah
- CAKE haul by Corinne Halbert
- CAKE Kick-Off, Archer Ballroom, 6-5-15 (photo by Chester Alamo-Costello)
- CAKE haul by Chester Alamo-Costello
- Saturday’s haul by Gene Kannenberg Jr.
- 2015 CAKE Afterparty, 6/6/15 at The Observatory, with Ambergris featuring Matt Thurber, Traducer featuring Lane Milburn, Pet Theories featuring Brian Cremins, and Naff Whiff featuring Eddy Rivera (photo by Chester Alamo-Costello)
- CAKE haul by Allison Alleman
- Sunday’s haul by Gene Kannenberg Jr.
- Another pic of 2015 CAKE Afterparty, 6/6/15 at The Observatory (photo by Chester Alamo-Costello)
- Keiler and Scott Roberts’ haul