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As the East Coast battens down for a hurricane, we look at how it will affect a busy weekend of comics events.

Hit Reblog: Comics That Caught Fire is a book about what happens when comics go viral

That headline isn't quite exact - the $20,000 is starter fund and a new campaign will be begun to raise more money, but basically SPX and the CBLDF had teamed up to aid 11...

The 2017 Ignatz Award nominations have just been announced, and this years honorees are a solid mix of mainstream (March Book 3), indie (My Favorite Thing is Monsters) and micro-press/self-published (Carolyn Nowak, Sabin Cauldron). I draw no wider implications from the list except that comics 2017 artistically speaking are strong.  Emil Ferris's My Favorite Thing is Monsters - kind of the To Kill a Mockingbird of comics at this point - lead with three noms including Outstanding Artist,  GN and Story.

  As soon as the glitz and glamour of Comic-Con dies down it's back to indie comics, aka the good ones. The Small Press Expo - held Sept. 16-17 in Bethesda, MD, has just announced...

The Nominees for this year's Ignatz award have been announced. The slate features a bit of a return to veteran cartoonists such as Daniel Clowes, Kim Deitch, and Adrian Tomine. However, mixed in with the greats...

We already told you that this year's Small Press Expo, to be held Sept. 17-18 in North Bethesda, MD, is spotlighting Fantagraphics 40th anniversary with guests like Daniel Clowes and Joe Sacco. That by...

If you weren't coming to SPX before, you are now: this year's edition will sotlight Fantagraphics' 40 year anniversary with a TRUE all-star line-up including: Joe Sacco, Trina Robbins, Daniel Clowes and The Hernandez Brothers, Carol Tyler, Jim Woodring, Drew Friedman and Ed Piskor.

Via the SPX tumblr, a reminder that once San Diego Comic-COn is over it'll be straight to the fall show line-up including the annual Small Ppess Expo in Bethesda, the annual Camp Comics for...

More awards! The Ignatz awards, presented at the Small Press Expo to outstanding indie comics, are now accepting submissions, with a June 7th deadline. More info here but the basics are below:  Categories are: • Outstanding...

Last year, SPX (The small Press Expo) announced it was joining with Nickelodeon to allow attendees to pitch animated shows to the net. The announcement met with a mixed response–some saw it as a...

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