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Email: exhibitor-inquiries@smallpressexpo.com Debut Books at Small Press Expo 2025 Bethesda, Maryland - August 27, 2025 Media Release - Small Press Expo is thrilled to announce that over 120 books and comics that will debut at SPX 2025. The festival takes place on Saturday and Sunday, September 13-14, at the Bethesda North Marriott Hotel & Conference Center with over 500 creators, 280 exhibitor tables, 50 publishers, 22 programming panels and 18 hands-on workshops to introduce attendees to the amazing world of independent and small press comics.
A complete list of of the over 140 books debuting at the show, including cover images and publishing information, can be found on the SPX web site. SPX 2025 is proud to list a highlighted selection of books debuting this year: | | New York Trilogy Pantheon Graphic Library | | From award-winning novelist Paul Auster comes the graphic adaptation of his deeply beloved series, The New York Trilogy, a postmodern take on detective and noir fiction.
Paul Karasik, the mastermind behind the three adaptations, art directed all three books. City of Glass is illustrated by the award-winning cartoonist David Mazzucchielli, the second volume, Ghosts, is illustrated by New Yorker cover artist, Lorenzo Mattotti, and The Locked Room is adapted and drawn by Karasik himself.
Find The New York Trilogy and Paul Karasik at table W86! | | | | | Flip First Second
Chi-Chi Ekeh keeps having crushes on rich white boys who have no idea she exists. Enter Flip Henderson, the most popular boy at school, who receives Chi-Chi's private video proposal to go to senior prom.
When Flip rejects Chi-Chi in front of their entire class, what happens next is completely unexpected: Chi-Chi—shy nerd and scholarship student—switches bodies with Flip. Suddenly Chi-Chi is 6'1" and cool, while Flip gets a crash course on Chi-Chi's life.
With graduation looming and their body swaps lasting longer and longer, Chi-Chi and Flip must form the most unlikely friendship their school has ever seen. From bestselling author of Check, Please!, Ngozi Ukazu, comes Flip, a tale about self-acceptance, black girlhood, and how walking a mile in someone else's shoes can teach you how to finally see yourself.
Find Ngozi at table W86. | | | Brownfield Action Family #1 Revival House Press | | Johnny Mansfield is struggling. No work, no motivation and within arm's reach of rock bottom. But when he inherits his family's abandoned martial arts studio, his problems may be solved. The only catch is, it's in a mysterious and decaying neighborhood known as the Brownfield. And his dysfunctional family is the last thing he wants to deal with. But then, can you ever really escape your family?
Brownfield Action Family is a brand new 8-issue indie comics series written and drawn by Eisner-nominated author Ted May (Injury Comics, Men's Feelings) and published by Revival House Press.
Find Ted May at table C6B!
| | | | | With My Life Self-published | | With My Life is an intimate collection of diary comics about falling in love. Sometimes funny, sometimes painful, and always sweet, Natalie Norris captures the small moments – illustrating that the healing power of love is found in the everyday ways two people care for one another.
Find Natalie at table G6B! | | | | | Valley Dale and Idella Anselm are cartoonist cousins who reside in the Southern coastal town of Star Valley. Resentment contends with guilt as the two navigate stilted social interactions, zine fairs, relationship woes, and comics awards shows in this special double digest.
Double Digest! Two full comics in one big book!
Find Valley Valley from Audra Stang at table table L7! | | | | | Planet of 1000 Moons Automation Press | | Planet Of 1000 Moons follows Athena, a spacefaring, food trucking, cyborg chef, as she travels throughout the 864 moons of the dead planet Biosse, looking for exotic creatures, evading the Biosse GovCorp authorities, and traveling from moon to moon, sharing their food with hungry customers throughout the orbit.
Get Planet of 1000 Moons from Michael S. Bracco at table J9! | | | Who Killed Nessie? Avery Hill Publishing | | It's Lyndsay Grockle's first day as the manager of the Lakeview Hotel. Her boss has handed her the keys and departed for vacation. And then the convention attendees start showing up, each more peculiar than the last.
Lyndsay's a confirmed skeptic―so she's surprised to be woken up in the middle of the night by her convention attendees, telling her that there's been a murder . . . of the Loch Ness Monster. The guests at the hotel are all cryptids from around the world, and now one of them is dead. Which means that one of them must be the murderer.
And it's up to Lyndsay to solve the case!
Get Who Killed Nessie from table J1!
| | | | Small Press Expo (SPX) is the preeminent showcase for the exhibition of independent comics, graphic novels, and alternative political cartoons. SPX is a registered 501(c)3 nonprofit that brings together more than 500 artists and publishers to meet their readers, booksellers, and distributors each year. Graphic novels, mini comics, and alternative comics will all be on display and for sale by their authors and illustrators. The expo includes a series of panel discussions and interviews with this year's guests.
The Ignatz Awards are held every year at SPX recognizing outstanding achievement in comics and cartooning.
For more information on the Small Press Expo, please visit http://www.smallpressexpo.com. | | Small Press Expo P.O. Box 5704 Bethesda, Maryland 20824 | | | | |
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