Tag: SPX

Box Brown ("Belen!", "Love is a Peculiar Kind of Thing") is a fixture at indie comics shows, tirelessly producing his own bold and appealing short comics on a regular basis, but also, in 2011,...

While many of us are beginning to be terrified of the imminent San Diego Comic-Con, the Small Press Expo is ramping up for September's comics sleep-away camp. And the guest list is shaping up...

Jeebus, its getting so you can't even throw a SMALL press show without melting servers and frustrated tweets. Table registration for this year's Small Press Expo went live yesterday at noon, EDT. And it seems that the servers promptly crashed due to the overwhelming demand. While we missed the actual event, it's pretty easy to follow the trail of the tweets:

Over the weekend this year's Small Press rolled out their first poster by Jeremy Sorese, and the first hint ogf this year's guests: Lisa Hanawalt, Gene Yang, Frank Santoro, Gary Panter and Seth. Great...

By Hannah Means-Shannon The revelries following the Ignatz Awards continued long into the night and crowded the lower levels of the conference center took over the bar and spilled out onto patios, steps, and walkways,...

By Hannah Means-Shannon The Ignatz Awards are known for their quick-fire pace and sense of humor but that doesn’t mean they downplay the often very personal extremes indie comics creators face in pursuit of publication. ...

BY JEN VAUGHN - These photos are photos that SHOULD be out on the internet somewhere instead of sitting on my phone. Chris Ware, Daniel Clowes, Jaime and Gilbert Hernandez, and Charles Burns are...

This year's Small Press Expo, to be held September 15-16 in Bethesda, has one of the most amazing guest line-ups in forever, with Jaime Hernandez, Gilbert Hernandez, Chris Ware, Dan Clowes, Francois Mouly, Adrian Tomine and MORE. Programming director Bill Kartalopoulos has out done him self with a program that covers all the bases and more. Suffice to say we'll be glued to the two programming tracks.

This year's Small Press Expo was so wonderful that we can't stop reading about it! It's the first time in a while that it wasn't too cold or too hot but just right at an indie comics show we've attended and that made it special. PLUS, SVA and MICA and CCS and MCAD and SCAD have been turning out lots and lots of excellent new cartoonists and the established people are putting out great stuff and there is real excitement everywhere. There are tons of 'em, including this video made by Steven Greenstreet...we selected a few because they were interesting or especially charming.

Just a very quick moment to jot down a few thoughts on SPX. (My "official" report will be in PWCW tomorrow.) In short, it remains the summer camp of comics, with a bunch of people who are there for love just hanging out, talking, drawing, drinking, smiling and laughing.

What's new at SPX this year? Click the images for more info!

Fantagraphics will present the following new books: