The Artists of Finger Cakes
We got a chance to work with some amazing talent on Finger Cakes: Volume One. Here’s a brief overview of all the great artists who contributed to our new comics anthology.
Mark Rogers
Mark Rogers is a self-taught artist from Portland, Oregon. Stylistically his work has been described as a mash-up of folk art, medieval painting, and fairy tale illustration. Obsessed with fantasy, and tales of the supernatural, Rogers creates narrative-driven paintings populated by fictional characters that inhabit his spooky and sometimes humorous oil paintings.
Chason Matthams
Chason Matthams' focus is on capturing the ephemeral experience of consciousness and pointing to its fragmentary nature. While at first glance his paintings seem to be contemplative experiments in mimesis, prolonged looking reveals threatening undertones. Matthams’ employs specific combinations of colors, angles of perspective, and exhaustive detail to anthropomorphize each of his subjects, rendering them just barely sinister.
Davor Gromilovic
Davor Gromilovic is a visual artist currently residing in Sombor, Serbia (born in Yugoslavia, 1985). His work is narrative and often inspired by fantastic motives of fairy tales, folk-art, pop surrealism, sci-fi, and even by north renaissance masters of painting, as well as by his personal experiences and inner world.
Peter Rostovsky
Peter Rostovsky is a Russian-born artist and writer who emigrated from the former Soviet Union as a political refugee in 1980. Rostovsky teaches at NYU, Parsons New School, and Lesley Art + Design. His debut graphic novel, Damnation Diaries, is out with Uncivilized Books.
Flannery Cashill
Flannery Cashill is an artist and writer living in Kansas City, MO.
Alex Gamsu Jenkins
Alex Jenkins is an illustrator and cartoonist from South London. His work explores satirical and critical subject matter through a distinctive and vivid style. He tries to avoid the pretense but wallow in humor, whilst touching on the absurd and surreal.
Rachel Helm
Rachel Helm was born in Kentucky, lives in New York, and would die for rock and roll.
Audrey Densmore
Audrey Densmore is a puppeteer, puppet builder, and illustrator from the San Fernando Valley. Twistable colored pencils, papier mache, and a magnifying glass are some of her tools for following threads of meaning.
JP Kim the Person
JP Kim the Person is a li'l gremlin that likes to draw weirdo shit, hehehe.
Jesse Simpson
Jesse Simpson is a artist/cartoonist from Portland Oregon who writes and draws indie comics. You can find his stuff through Fantagaphics and The Mansion Press.
Jordan Bruner is an artist and filmmaker whose work encompasses painting, print-making, ceramics and animated films. Jordan lives in Richmond, VA with her husband Zack, cat Pablo, and whippets Zucchini and Cezar.
Liv Garber
Liv Garber is a painter, illustrator, and devoted pen pal based out of Brooklyn, NY.
Sean Donnelly
Sean Donnelly is a writer and animator living in Los Angeles, California. He co-created the Comedy Central animated series, Jeff & Some Aliens. He directed the documentary feature, I Think We’re Alone Now, about two obsessed Tiffany fans.
Katy Horan
Katy Horan is an artist and illustrator in Austin, TX. She illustrated the books Literary Witches: A Celebration of Magical Women Writers, which has been published in 6 countries and was an NPR Great Read in 2017.
Marco Quadri
Marco Quadri is an illustrator and comic book artist from Bologna, Italy. Some of his comics have been published in anthologies such as Kuš (LT), Baobab (CZ) and Sigaretten (IT).
Eva Redamonti
Eva Redamonti is an illustrator, musician and animator based in Brooklyn, NY, USA. Her work focuses on topics such as futurism, psychedelia, mental health, and technology.
Fran Krause
Fran Krause teaches animation at CalArts. Fran makes the Deep Dark Fears comic series, which has been compiled in two books.
Will Carsola
Will Carsola is the co-creator and artist of Mr. Pickles and Momma Named Me Sheriff on Adult Swim. He is an artist and partner with Liquid Death.
