My Little Pony was my favorite toy growing up, so when I saw Cake Pony at the Alternative Press Expo, I had to check it out.
Pink Raygun: Could you tell me your names and a little about your project?
Lauren Wong: I’m Lauren Wong and this is Andrew Klein and we are the creators of Cake Pony.
Andrew Klein: You said that really seductively. We have a bunch of ponies, they all pose for our site. They’re pin-up ponies. . .
LW: Tastefully drawn.
AK: Tastefully. The important thing is tastefully drawn.
PRG: It’s like My Little Pony grown up!
AK: When they grew up they went through a couple of things. They’re now of age. They’re no longer yearlings and they all love the taste of cake. And so, they’ve posed for our site over the years. What happened was one of our ponies, Rachel, founded the site. She met with a friend of hers named Honey while they were enjoying some bakery products. They decided to found the site together. It grew into an exploration of cake desires and then. . .
LW: It grew into a webcomic featuring some of the pin-ups in their daily lives on a live webcam. Just recording their day to day activities and their struggles when they’re not posing for the camera.
AK: The point was to make these ponies accessible because we see them as pin-ups and they’re very fetishized on screen and we wanted to show that they’re normal ponies, too.
PRG: Have the ponies ever considered doing a spin off of the webcam? Like maybe Cake Pony Survivor or Big Brother: Cake Ponies Edition?
AK: Who knows where that will go next? Part of our comic has actually spun off a little bit. It turns out that the stuffed animals and toys that they kept around their apartment, the Box Baby and Topsy Bear, had a life of their own as well and ended up going on some adventures together.
PRG: Where did you actually get the idea for Cake Pony?
LW: It’s through an inside joke that me and Andrew have. One day Andrew got a new job and he was gonna make some more income, and he was like “What am I gonna do with all this extra money?” I said “Maybe you should buy a pony and we’ll throw cake at it all day. And that’s the way that we’ll feed it. We’ll just keep it on the roof.” And then through that came the comic and the pin-ups.
PRG: Can you tell me what your collaboration process is like?
LW: It kinda depends. Sometimes it’s a “sit down and hammer it out” kind of deal. We kind of go over the script together and make sure that we’re on the same page with where the comic is going. But, if it’s just individual drawings and stuff then we just go ahead and do our own thing.
We team write the scripts. We go back and forth each week and the way we actually do it is like one week I’ll draw and write and the next week Lauren draws and writes. So we have two parallel story lines that work together.
PRG: Is there much of a strain on the relationship at times? How do you balance all that out?
AK: I don’t think it has been. Maybe because we kind of like do the parts independently. It’s not like Lauren is waiting on the script from me to draw. It works that way.
You can see a new Cake Pony adventure every Thursday on their website, where you can also get Cake Pony pin-ups, t-shirts, mini-comics and more.
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