CAKE Cupcake Award Minicomic Release

Featured Book

And Up They Sprung

Politics. Betrayal. Thinly veiled metaphor. Faced with eternal damnation after a familiar cabal of technocrat tycoons usurp heaven’s throne, a once-righteous web warrior must atone for the sins of her past to make a final plea for salvation. 1/100 Riso printed in Black and Fluorescent Pink by Kanak-kanak Press Hand-sewn by me & my friends 40++ pages Debuting on May 1st at CAKE Chicago, if you are an Illinois you can select to pick it up from me at CAKE at checkout Created with the assistance of my mentor Pidge and the 2025 Chicago Alternative Comics Expo Cupcake Award Warning 18+: Don’t let children read this or be a child purchasing this. Fine print » Buying this product means you won’t sue me for any offense you may take from its contents » pinky swear

This book will be available for purchase at the event.

About This Event

Join us for the Chicago Alternative Comics Expo's inaugural comics reading event celebrating the 2025 Cupcake Award Winner: Mili St. John debuting, And Up!, They Sprung!

Doors open at 6:00. This event is mask required!

For full details, see the CAKE website: https://www.cakechicago.com/cupcake-party

Featured Author

Mili St. John

Mili St. John is the 2025 Cupcake Award winner. She’s an Ignatz Award nominated, self-taught comic artist and animator from Portland, ME who is deeply passionate about exploring human creativity, learning, and community building. She also helps organize CAMP (Comic arts Maine Portland).

About the Venue

Skunk Cabbage Books

Skunk Cabbage Books is a nature-focused independent bookstore and community workshop space offering new books and local artist’s goods that remind us of human’s own place in our more-than-human world.

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