SPX day 2 photos

I had a good time again today, and took a few more shots. All the pictures can be seen at my Flickr site. I think people probably did well, on both sides of the table, but I'm sure the main news sites will cover that. I saw Tom "Comics Reporter" Spurgeon and Heidi "the Beat" MacDonald in passing today.

James Kochalka

Rob Ullman, the former Washington City Paper's Savage Love illustrator

SPX day 1 photos

Ellen Lindner

Day one of SPX seemed like a success to me. It didn't feel as crowded as last year, but there was a good flow of people around. Even at opening, the aisles got busy fast.

Here's a link to more SPX photos I took yesterday. They're mostly DC-area creators. Also included is Jules Feiffer at Politics and Prose on Friday.

Jules Feiffer

Raina Telgemeier and Dave Roman

Dean Haspiel and Christa Cassano

Carolyn Belefski

Comic Riffs talks to Jules Feiffer

SMALL PRESS EXPO: 'Godfather of the alties' Jules Feiffer finds he's a new man since leaving Manhattan

By Michael Cavna Washington Post Comic Riffs blog  September 12 2014
http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/comic-riffs/wp/2014/09/12/small-press-expo-godfather-of-the-alties-jules-feiffer-finds-hes-a-new-man-since-leaving-manhattan/

Small Press Expo, aka SPX, starts tomorrow

The blogosphere is full of information, so here's just the basics from their website. This is always a good show, and they've got some great alternative newspaper cartoonists this year, including Jules Feiffer who was one of the earliest. Note that the Metro Station garage is a good walk from the hotel especially with books. From ComicsDC, Matt Dembicki will be at the DC Conspiracy table on Saturday only, and Mike Rhode will be roaming the crowd on both days.

Dates & Times:

September 13th and 14th, 2014 

Saturday: 11:00 am – 7:00 pm
Sunday: 12:00 pm – 6:00 pm 

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Admission:

One Day Membership:
$15 Saturday
$10 Sunday

Weekend Membership: $20 

Tickets on sale at the door.

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Location:

The world class Marriott Bethesda North Hotel & Conference Center 
5701 Marinelli Road 
North Bethesda, MD 20852

FREE PARKING is available on weekends at the White Flint Metro Station, which is across the street from the Marriott.

Roboy Red game app now available

from http://www.comicbookdiner.com/2014/09/11/roboy-red-game-app-soars-into-itunes/

We just launched the Roboy Red: Jetpack Attack game app  at iTunes and Google Play! It is a FREE app, modeled after the famous Jetpack Attack, but with John & Rich's own special Roboy flair!

You can download from iTunes by clicking HERE>>

Download at Google Play for Android >>

This is the first of a series of apps that the Comic Book Diner have planned as part of a mission to spread the word, and draw people into the cool comics that we do!  Here's a nifty new YouTube vid to check out the app… https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C6Ywr2RLSG8

And John notes: At SPX, I will give a FREE comic book to anyone who shows me the downloaded app on their iPhone, iPad or Android device! Booth H14, right next to Raina and Dave!

Tonight: Jules Feiffer at Politics and Prose

Jules Feiffer - Kill My Mother: A Graphic Novel ♦

Sep 12 2014 7:00 pm

Feiffer has brought a distinctive art and wit to cartoons, plays, and children's books. Now he applies his inimitable style to the graphic novel. His story draws on his early life in California and on noir films and detective novels, and follows five women from the Depression years through World War II as they untangle deceptions, identities, and murder to get at the truth. (Liveright)

Beer and wine will be available.

Kill My Mother: A Graphic Novel (Hardcover)

By Jules Feiffer

$27.95

ISBN-13: 9780871403148
Availability: On Our Shelves Now
Published: Liveright Publishing Corporation, 8/2014 

 

5015 Connecticut Ave NW

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Today at noon: Box Brown at Library of Congress

Intergalactic Nemesis part 2 at Artisphere - free ticket contest on Facebook

This comics-related show is at Artisphere later this month.

Enter to win an Intergalactic Nemesis Prize Pack

Enter to win one of three Intergalactic Nemesis: Robot Planet Rising prize packs containing a graphic novel and two free tickets to the live-action graphic novel at ARTISPHERE on SAT, SEPT 20 / 8PM.

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A few photos from TCDS Drink and Draw...

A few photos from the Team Cul de Sac Drink and Draw at Baltimore Comic-Con fundraiser, arranged by Joe Sutliff, can be seen here.

Comic Riffs reviews Dean Haspiel's new book

SMALL PRESS EXPO: Dean Haspiel's 'Fear, My Dear' is a hard-boiled dish, best served bold

By Michael Cavna 

Washington Post Comic Riffs blog September 11 2014  http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/comic-riffs/wp/2014/09/11/small-press-expo-dean-haspiels-fear-my-dear-is-a-hard-boiled-dish-best-served-bold

PR: Dust Elves at SPX tomorrow

We're overwhelmed by SPX news, but this is a local cartoonist's press release.

September 12, 2014 SPX Tomorrow and Sunday! This is a friendly reminder that between the hours of 11 am and 7 pm on Saturday, and from 12 noon to 6 pm on Sunday, Gordon can be found here. SPX is located at the Bethesda North Marriott Hotel & Conference Center, 5701 Marinelli Road. North Bethesda, MD. And don't forget Gordon's SPECIAL EXCLUSIVE OFFER. He will give you any one item on his table for half the price if you choose to come to the SPX this weekend. If you can't make it this weekend, be sure to check out Gordon's swag store here.

Sept 15: Eleanor Davis, Monday 7:30 at the Takoma Park MD Library

Eleanor Davis at the Takoma Park MD Library Monday Sept 15, 7:30.

Following this weekend's Small Press Expo if you are the sort who need even more comics in your life, after SPX, come visit your comics friendly local library on Monday as Eleanor Davis (Secret Science Alliance) visits with her slideshow presentation of life, work, art, etc and also to share her new work:  How to be Happy..  And she may be bringing along her husband collaborator artist illustrator writer Drew Weing (Set to Sea).

Come talk comics, process, the struggle between freelancing and working on personal projects, etc.

Takoma Park MD Library, 101 Philadelphia Ave, Takoma Park MD 20912.   (or a short-ish walk down the hill from the Takoma Park Metro stop on the Red Line).

http://comixtakoma.wordpress.com/2014/09/10/how-to-be-happy-eleanor-davis-monday-sept-15-730/

Sept 12 (tomorrow!): Box Brown speaks at Library of Congress at noon

Hannah Benbow interview for Baltimore Comic-Con

Like/Dislike with Hannah Benbow, animator

AS TOLD TO ALEXA COTTMAN-ROBINSON, 

B (September 3, 2014). p. 12

http://www.baltimoresun.com/entertainment/bthesite/bs-b-0903-like-dislike-20140902,0,3173286.story

The Express on SPX

Small Press Expo 2014: Three of the event's biggest draws [in print as 3 big draws at the Small Press Expo].

By Lori McCue 

Express September 11 2014, p. 22

http://www.washingtonpost.com/express/wp/2014/09/11/small-press-expo-2014-three-of-the-events-biggest-draws/

Awesome Con DC info

The Brute Squad is Recruiting! We're looking for some awesome people to join our awesome team of volunteers! Think you fit that description? Fill out an application!  Application for Milwaukee | Application for Washington DC | Application for Indianapolis

Promote Yourself! Want to promote your business or event? We still have ad space available in the offical Awesome Con program guide along with some other cool sponsorship options!  Interested? See our website for more information.  Sponsorship Application for Milwaukee Sponsorship Application for DC Panels and Programming! Are you a professional, fan, or organization who would like to present a panel at Awesome Con Milwaukee or Awesome Con DC? We are looking for interesting, and fun programming! If this sounds like you, check out our application! Reminder! Discounts on passes for Awesome Con Milwaukee are available! You can also lock in your pass for Awesome Con DC at the 2014 rate! BUT the codes are only available until October 1st! That's only 20 days from right now! Use the codes earlybird 14 for $15 off your 3-day passes or earlysaturday14 for $10 off yourSaturday only passes for our show in DC.

Shannon Wheeler on meeting Rep. Lewis

Rep. John Lewis and Shannon Wheeler met at a party for graphic novelists. Awkwardness ensued.

March by Lewis and Wheeler's God is Disappointed in You are both for sale at half price at Top Shelf's website.

PR: NBM HEADS TO SPX 2014

NBM HEADS TO SPX 2014

Patrick Atangan's Invincible Days Makes It's Debut

On September 13-14th, you can find some of the most prestigious names in comics at the 2014 Small Press Expo (aka SPX).

Unlike many conventions that are geared toward pop culture or corporately owned comics, SPX was created in 1994 to promote artists and publishers who produce independent comics. SPX hosts an annual festival that provides a forum for artists, writers and publishers of comic art in its various forms to present to the public comic art not normally accessible through normal commercial channels.

This weekend, you can find NBM at Table F1-F2, where we'll have our latest book on hand, Invincible Days.

By the author of the Yellow Jar and Silk Tapestry, this collection of short stories forms a singular narrative that reveals the tiny moments when you realize you are at the precious end-days of youth.  Atangan creates an intricate mosaic from his own childhood memories as well as those gathered from friends and family. Bittersweet, joyful and reflective, these are the type of marking moments that best define us as adults. 

Unfortunately, creator Patrick Atangan cannot be there, but we'll have some of his original art that's we'll be raffling off.  Purchase any of his books to enter to win.

In addition, we'll have some previews of our upcoming books including Jude Nude by Etienne Davodeau, Dungeon: Twilight, Volume 4, as well as our special accordion book, Pascal Rabaté’s Street View, it needs to be seen to be believed!

We'll also have a fashionably EARLY preview of a book that will have everyone talking come SPRING 2015, Annie Goetzinger’s Girl in Dior. 

We’ll also be offering all of our latest titles and prints are available for free with any $30 purchase, with a signed version free with a $50 purchase.

Throughout SPX, NBM can be found at tables F1-F2.

Another comics-reading photo at Library of Congress

Children of gold miners looking at the comics, Mogollon, New Mexico

• Title: Children of gold miners looking at the comics, Mogollon, New Mexico
• Creator(s): Lee, Russell, 1903-1986, photographer
• Date Created/Published: 1940 June.
• Medium: 1 negative : nitrate ; 35 mm.
• Reproduction Number: LC-USF33-012792-M5 (b&w film nitrate neg.) LC-DIG-fsa-8a28957 (digital file from original neg.)
• Rights Advisory: No known restrictions. For information, see U.S. Farm Security Administration/Office of War Information Black & White Photographs(http://www.loc.gov/rr/print/res/071_fsab.html)
• Call Number: LC-USF33- 012792-M5 [P&P]
• Other Number: H 366582
• Repository: Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, DC 20540 USA http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.print
• Notes:
• Title and other information from caption card.
• LOT 0623 (Possible location of corresponding print).
• LOT 0625 (Possible location of corresponding print).
• LOT 0639 (Possible location of corresponding print).
• LOT 0649 (Possible location of corresponding print).
• LOT 0652 (Possible location of corresponding print).
• Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division. Washington Division; 1944.
• More information about the FSA/OWI Collection is available athttp://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.fsaowi
• Thanks to Sara Duke of the Library again! I can't tell what they're reading at all.

School Library Journal on the National Book Festival

Gene Luen Yang Rouses the Crowd at DC National Book Festival

By Rocco Staino

School Library Journal September 5, 2014

http://www.slj.com/2014/09/events/gene-luen-yang-rouses-the-crowd-at-dc-national-book-festival/

Going down to Lima, going to Peru

Teaching environmental issues through comics: I'll be in Lima, Peru, Sept. 15-17 and in Cusco, Peru, Sept. 17-18 (courtesy of the U.S. State Department) talking with students and teachers, and judging with Nicolás Tarnawiecki a national environmental comics contest. It's part of a national preparation for the United Nations Climate Change Conference in Lima in December.

"I would not pursue comix as a career": An Interview with Dean Haspiel

Rhode and Dean Haspiel

My friend Dean Haspiel just attended the Baltimore Comic-Con last weekend and is returning to the area for this weekend's Small Press Expo. Dean's had a good year resurrecting The Fox as a well-received superhero comic from Archie, while also putting out a hardcover collection of his Billy Dogma webcomics. I first interviewed Dean years ago as part of a Harvey Pekar panel that ended up as the foundation for a book. From working with Harvey and being an icon of alternative comics, Dean has built quite a resume with comics as varied as Mo and Jo from Toon Books to Inverna Lockpez's autobio Cuba: My Revolution. Dean kindly answered the usual questions for me today hopefully without any such expectations.

Mike Rhode: What type of comic work or cartooning did you do?
Dean Haspiel: My comix run the gamut between semi-autobiographical to superhero to psychedelic romance. I hopscotch between mainstream and alternative comix. I've collaborated with Harvey Pekar, Jonathan Ames, Inverna Lockpez, Jonathan Lethem, Stan Lee, Mark Waid, J.M. DeMatteis, Gabe Soria, and lots of other writers. I also write some of the stuff I draw.

How did you do it? Traditional pen and ink, computer or a combination?  

I draw traditional pencil, ink and erasers. LOTS of erasers. Recently, I've been digitally inking my pencils and I sometimes color and letter digitally, too.


When (within a decade is fine) and where were you born?  
I was born in 1967 at New York Hospital. I grew up in Manhattan and moved to Brooklyn over 17 years ago.

What was your training and/or education in drawing? Do you have fine art training?  
I went to Music & Art High School. In my senior year (1985), M&A married Performing Arts and became La Guardia High School. I went to SUNY Purchase a couple of years later where I studied art and film. I also assisted cartoonists Bill Sienkiewicz, Howard Chaykin, and Walter Simonson in 1985, which helped me train for making comix. 

Who are your influences? 
 Howard Chaykin, Walter Simonson, Jack Kirby, Alex Toth, Will Eisner, C.C. Beck, Steve Ditko, Frank Miller, Bill Sienkiewicz, John Byrne, Mike Zeck, Ron Wilson, Chester Brown, Mike Mignola, John Romita Jr., Frank Quitely, Baru...

If you could, what in your career would you do-over or change? 
I would not pursue comix as a career. I would write and draw comix on the side - for the fun of it. My day job would be a mail man, cook, and/or paramedic.

What work are you best-known for? 
Harvey Pekar's The Quitter, The Fox, and Billy Dogma

What work are you most proud of?
Fear, My Dear: A Billy Dogma Experience.

   
What would you like to do or work on in the future? 
I would like to pursue creator-owned comix, including more Billy Dogma, The Red Hook, and semi-autobio comix. I would also like to draw more Fantastic Four; especially The Thing (and bring back Marvel Two-In-One), and I'd like to tackle Jack Kirby's O.M.A.C.
 
What do you do when you're in a rut or have writer's block? 

I type. I read. I watch movies and TV. I take showers. Lots of showers where my mind wanders.

What do you think will be the future of your field? 

While franchise companies continue to Maim, Rape, Murder, Die, Resurrect, Rinse & Repeat 75-year old icons on a quarterly basis, creator-owned comix will yield more original ideas and characters for other mediums to exploit. No longer will the question be "What if we made this comic into a movie" but more "When will this comic be made into a movie." It's cheaper to beta-test new intellectual property via comix before producing it as something served over easy for lazy readers who don't have the attention span or the imagination to actually read and fill in the gaps between the panels. Meanwhile, rebellious creators will continue to explore the virtues and innovate the art of comix despite competing with the more popular story delivery systems. 

Do you have a website or blog? 
http://deanhaspiel.com/

Sept 12: Box Brown speaks at Library of Congress at noon

Another comics picture from the Library of Congress

• 
• Title: [Child lying on floor with comic books]
• Date Created/Published: [no date recorded on caption card]
• Medium: 1 photographic print.
• Reproduction Number: LC-USZ62-59651 (b&w film copy neg.)
• Rights Advisory: Rights status not evaluated. For general information see "Copyright and Other Restrictions..." (http://lcweb.loc.gov/rr/print/195_copr.html).
• Call Number: SSF - Comic books, strips, etc. [item] [P&P]
• Repository: Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C. 20540 USA
• Notes:
  • Photo by Acme Newspictures
  • This record contains unverified, old data from caption card.
  • Caption card tracings: Photog. Index; Comic strips...; Children Reading; Shelf.

Tip from Sara Duke. Peter Sattler identified the comics as Captain Marvel Adventures #69; Action Comics 106 (March 1947 cover); Wonder Woman 21 (Jan/Feb 1947); Crack Comics #47 (the BEEZY story); Funny Folks #6 (Feb/Mar 1947); Flash Comics #8; and Jo-Jo Comics #5.