Thank you guysss sooo muchhh!!

Chicago Zine Fest is proud to unveil our official #poster and #posterartist for 2026! Thank you to the talented Aaliyah Lachel’e for creating this poster and our branding themes for the year. You can find more of Aaliyah’s work @peanutbuddarart.bsky.social and on her website: www.peanutbuddarart.com

Y’all idk why this has a content label on it 😭 help

“In Between Things" is a comic anthology organized featuring 20 Chicago-based comic artists. Exploring themes of frustration, personal growth, small wins, and big losses, the collection draws on universal experiences to create commentary on everything good and bad about being in your 20s.

My comic “Everything Shower” for the anthology “In Between Things”, by Mac McGuire ✨🧼!! The zines release this Fall in Chicago!

Black & Bloody A Black Vampire anthology by Black Indie Comix Club

Hey ya'll! I'm part of this super cool anthology with @blackindiecomix.bsky.social !! Its a Black Vampire anthology and it's full of sexy spooky brown people :) We would love your support!

Keep a lookout for my comic, too ;) I'll be posting the progress ❤️🩸

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Also here’s the haul (open for the full image) ✨🍰

CAKE ruled 🍰✨!! Thank you to everyone who stopped by to look at my art, it was so amazing meeting all of you! And thank you to everyone at HQ, we really rocked that shit!! @cakechicago.bsky.social #cakechicago

🍁TCAF 2025 was a success!!

This was my first TCAF and I’m so grateful to have been accepted :3

And thank you to the TCAF team for handling everything so well— especially with the flood! You guys are rockstars!!★

@torontocomics.bsky.social #tcaf #tcaf2025

anyone getting through this moment without listening to death metal is impressive tbh

A colorful and calm Chicago lakefront scene, featuring cool, freaky monsters enjoying reading comics. CAKE 2025 takes place June 28th - 29th at the Irish American Heritage Center, 4626 N Knox Ave, 60630. CAKE is a weekend long celebration of independent comics. Masks Strongly Encouraged! Special Guests: Malachai Ward, KOREANGRY, Angie Hewitt, Caroline Hu, Geneva Bower, & Max Huffman

BEHOLD! The CAKE 2025 Poster by Mike Centeno!

Mike is a Chicago-based cartoonist and illustrator born and raised in Caracas, Venezuela. Find more of his work including issues of his comic series Futile, at mikecenteno.com

Stay tuned as we introduce our special guests, and we'll see you in June!

An old slide I made for a lecture about writing. You have my full permission to use it if you would want to.

Anyway here’s the zines 🫡 #zine #comics

I’m going to be here!!! Soooo stoked ✨✨

Here's some of the colorways I was working with! The covers were risograph printed onto colored paper.

The finished cover of Xerox Candy Bar #41: "Absolutely Obsessed" :) I didn't create a comic for this edition so this is what we're working with. #zines #saic #coverart #illustration

If you missed the CAKE Art Auction, you unfortunately also missed ….THE GARF HOLE

Patriot Gals vs. Battle Girl Super 🖋️✨

#comics #zines #nostalgia #comicstrip #cartoonist

What's the best way to post comics here? Full pages or panels? Or some secret 3rd option?? 🤔

#comics #illustration

My #zine for my comic final!! :) it’s an anthology of 6 pieces of work from the fall ‘24 semester. I’m super proud ⭐️

#comics #illustration #blackart

Working on the cover to a zine I'm making for my comic final :) #zines #comics #illustration

Sneak peek of a comic for my final anthology this semester! :) They're 14 and awkward and like ponies #comic #comicart #illustration

I'm back to BlueSky because people are moving over from the poopoo app!! So now I am here <3

💕 Valentine’s Day Commissions! It’s your chance to get your partner/loved one(s) (or yourself 👀) something real nice and special this holiday! :33 Message me if you’re interested :))

I finally found a procreate brush that works for my art style :’) it’s a default brush but it blends so well and makes this shit look so good ughhh I love it. Wish I knew about this sooner
#illustration

Someone needs to give me a crash course on how to use this site :o

Happy 2024!! :) I did a little #artvsartist2023 for the new year 💙⭐️✨ I gotta post more on bsky—

#blacksky #illustration

Still working on rendering a couple pages for my vampire-comic :) very excited for it to be done. Here’s a finished splash page! #illustration

Starting off finals week by making a long, ranting essay about being black at a PWI is kinda cathartic

#blacksky Hey all! I'm Aaliyah! 💛 I'm a black illustration student who makes work about brown joy, and I'm having a Holiday Art sale from Dec 5th to Dec 31st!! I've got prints, stickers, and notebooks. 30% of all proceeds go towards the Palestinian Children's Relief Fund 🇵🇸 -> peanutbuddarart.com !!