PR: Small Press Expo Announces International Special Guests

Check out the International Special Guests coming to SPX 2018

For Immediate Release Contact: Eden Miller Email: press@smallpressexpo.com   Small Press Expo Announces International Special Guests: Julie Doucet, Emma Ríos, Max de Radiguès, Liv Strömquist, Jérémie Royer Fiona Smyth, and Kelly Kwang for SPX 2018!   Bethesda, Maryland - July 2, 2018   Media Release - Small Press Expo proudly announces more International Guests for SPX 2018. The festival takes place on Saturday and Sunday, September 15-16, at the Bethesda North Marriott Hotel & Conference Center and will have over 650 creators, 280 exhibitor tables and 22 programming slots to introduce attendees to the amazing world of independent and small press comics. Additional Special Guests will be announced shortly.   SPX 2018 is honored to have the following creators as International Special Guests to this year's show: Visit the SPX 2018 Website for More Info Julie Doucet Julie Doucet was born near Montreal in 1965 and is best known for her frank, funny, and sometimes shocking comic book series Dirty Plotte, which changed the landscape of alternative cartooning. In the 1990s, Doucet moved between New York, Seattle, Berlin, and Montreal, publishing the graphic novels My New York Diary, Lift Your Leg, My Fish is Dead!, My Most Secret Desire, and The Madame Paul Affair. In 2000, she quit comics to concentrate on other art forms. From these experiments emerged the collection of engravings and prints Long Time Relationship; her one-year visual journal, 365 Days; and sassy collages from fumetto comics, Carpet Sweeper Tales. Her post-comics artwork includes silkscreened artist's books, text-based collages, sculpture, and animation films. Julie Doucet arrived in comics in the 1990s as a fully formed cartoonist. The Complete Dirty Plotte collects the revolutionary and medium-defining comics of a legendary cartoonist. Emma Ríos Emma Ríos is a cartoonist based in Spain. She shifted her focus to a mix of both architecture and work with small press publishers until she started working on comics full-time in 2007. Having worked for Boom! Studios and for Marvel Entertainment (Doctor Strange, Amazing Spider-man), she returned to creator-owned comics in 2013, thanks to Image Comics; where she recently published I.D., a solo graphic novel. She currently co-creates Pretty Deadly with Kelly Sue DeConnick and Mirror with Hwei Lim. Max de Radiguès Max de Radiguès (b. 1982) is a cartoonist from Belgium who also runs the publishing house L'Employé du Moi. His previous work has been translated in English by Conundrum and One Percent Press. His books in English include Moose, Weegee (with Wauter Mannaert), and Bastard. He lives in Brussels. In his Fantagraphics debut, Bastard traces the deadly escape of May and Eugene as they crisscross the United States, encountering mysterious truckers, ambitious bandits, and senior citizens living off the grid in the Southwest. Both bloody and tender, de Radiguès focuses on the familial relationship as much as the exhilarating plot elements, and his clear-lined style adds depth to the brutality as well as the moments of maternal love. Liv Strömquist Liv Strömquist was born in Sweden and lives in Malmö. She is a radio host with a degree in political science. An activist, her left-leaning, award-winning comics have been published in zines and magazines. Her feminist graphic novel Fruit of Knowledge has sold 40,000 copies in Sweden and has since been published worldwide. From Adam and Eve to pussy hats, people have punished, praised, pathologized, and politicized vulvas, vaginas, clitorises, and menstruation. In her feminist graphic novel, Fruit of Knowledge, Swedish cartoonist Liv Strömquist calls out how genitalia-obsessed men have stigmatized women's bodies, denied their sexuality, created a dubious gender binary, and much more. Her biting, informed commentary explores history and taboos from the darkest chapters (the Salem witch trials) to the lightest (when menstrual blood was used as a love potion). Jérémie Royer Jérémie Royer is a French illustrator and designer. He grew up in Nice surrounded by the sea and the mountains. After studying art there for 2 years, he specialised in comic book art and illustration at the École Supérieure des Arts Saint-Luc in Brussels and is now based in Brussels. Audubon, On the Wings of the World by Fabien Grolleau and Jérémie Royer is about John James Audubon's epic ornithological quest across America, with nothing but his artist's materials, an assistant, a gun and an all-consuming passion for birds. Fiona Smyth Fiona Smyth is a Toronto based painter, educator, illustrator, and cartoonist. Her feminist artwork has exhibited internationally. Fiona collaborated with writer and sex educator Cory Silverberg on the kids' series What Makes A Baby in 2013, and Sex Is A Funny Word in 2015, published by Seven Stories Press. Somnambulance collects a career in comics from 1983-2017 by a joyous, feminist contemporary of Julie Doucet, Seth and Chester Brown. A comics collection by Canadian cartoonist, painter, and illustrator Fiona Smyth. Over thirty years of comics that feature Fiona's world of sexy ladies, precocious girls, and vindictive goddesses is revealed in all its feminist glory. This is recommended reading for sleepwalkers on a female planet. Kelly Kwang Kelly Kwang is an illustrator and cartoonist who spends half her time in Toronto and the other half on the net. She is the proud founder of the Space Youth Cadets, and the (also proud) co-founder and lead artist of a budding games studio known as Gloam Collective. Her current project, don't tell me not to worry, i'll worry all i want will be published by Czap Books this coming year. 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 650 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 Award is a festival prize held every year at SPX recognizing outstanding achievement in comics and cartooning, with the winners chosen by attendees at the show. As in previous years, profits from the SPX will go to support the SPX Graphic Novel Gift Program, which funds graphic novel purchases for public and academic libraries, as well as the Comic Book Legal Defense Fund (CBLDF), which protects the First Amendment rights of comic book readers and professionals. For more information on the CBLDF, visit their website at http://www.cbldf.org. For more information on the Small Press Expo, please visit http://www.smallpressexpo.com. Small Press Expo P.O. Box 5704 Bethesda, Maryland 20824 www.smallpressexpo.com Email: press@smallpressexpo.com STAY CONNECTED ‌ ‌ ‌

Flugennock's Latest'n'Greatest: "BREAKING: DNC 2020 CAMPAIGN ART LEAKED"

From DC's anarchist cartoonist Mike Flugennock:

"BREAKING: DNC 2020 Campaign Art Leaked!"
http://sinkers.org/stage/?p=2553

Just going to leave this here...

On pondering the "I'd like to speak to the manager" mindset popular among Liberals these days. Seems to be your basic Liberal style of activism, about as radical as they get -- when they aren't busy calling the cops on kids for running a lemonade stand without a permit or something.

via @rdsathene Robert D. Skeels, JD:
"I love how all these 'white, privileged, straight…' #StillWithHer Liberals are claiming that until Cinnamon Hitler is out of office, they're each and every kind of oppressed minority. That is… until the cops show up. Or they need to speak to the manager."
https://twitter.com/rdsathene/status/1004593086469582849

via @davidthesame David
"Those limousine liberals know one method of resistance: asking to speak to the manager."
https://twitter.com/davidthesame/status/896400466791333889



-Grateful Dead

That darn Wonder Woman movie filming

There are no superheroes in D.C.

by Joe Flood

Washington Post July 1 2018

online at https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/there-are-no-superheroes-in-dc/2018/06/29/cd03412a-7636-11e8-b4b7-308400242c2e_story.html

Comic Riffs talks MAD

A new editor. A new home. But Mad magazine still takes sharp aim at Trump and Roseanne.

by Michael Cavna

Washington Post Comic Riffs blog June 29 2018

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/comic-riffs/wp/2018/06/29/a-new-editor-a-new-home-but-mad-magazine-still-takes-sharp-aim-at-trump-and-roseanne/

PR: Small Press Expo Announces Rebecca Sugar Leading Our Third Group of Special Guests

Check out even more Special Guests coming to SPX 2018

For Immediate Release Contact: Eden Miller Email: press@smallpressexpo.com   Small Press Expo Announces Rebecca Sugar Leading Our Third Group of Special Guests: Rebecca Sugar, Kat Fajardo, Ben Passmore, Jason Lutes, Benji Nate, Carolyn Nowak, Carol Tyler, and Nate Powell for SPX 2018!   Bethesda, Maryland - June 28, 2018   Media Release - Small Press Expo proudly announces more Special Guests for SPX 2018. The festival takes place on Saturday and Sunday, September 15-16, at the Bethesda North Marriott Hotel & Conference Center and will have over 650 creators, 280 exhibitor tables and 22 programming slots to introduce attendees to the amazing world of independent and small press comics. Additional Special Guests will be announced shortly.   SPX 2018 is honored to have the following creators as Special Guests to this year's show: Visit the SPX 2018 Website for More Info Rebecca Sugar Rebecca Sugar is the creator of Cartoon Network's Emmy-nominated series Steven Universe, an animated coming-of-age story told from the perspective of Steven, the "little brother" to a team of magical guardians of humanity—the Crystal Gems. After graduating from the School of Visual Arts (SVA) with a BFA in Animation, Sugar joined Adventure Time in 2009. During her time on the iconic series as a storyboard artist and writer, Sugar garnered both Emmy nominations and an Annie Award win, as well a deep fan base following the many songs she wrote for the show. Sugar was recently included in Variety's Hollywood's New Leaders 2016: The Creatives list, where she was recognized alongside other notable artists such as Damien Chazelle, Jerrod Carmichael and Donald Glover. A children's book adaptation of the Emmy-nominated Steven Universe episode "The Answer" also written by Sugar was released on Sept. 6., 2016 where it became a New York Times bestseller. Kat Fajardo Kat Fajardo is an award-winning comic artist and illustrator born & raised in NYC. She is best known for her playful and colorful auto-biographical work about self acceptance and Latinx culture. She's recently illustrated the cover for Celia C. Pérez's The First Rule of Punk (Penguin Random House) and was featured in several anthologies. Hoping to boost Latinx narrative in comics, she's also edited La Raza Anthology and created the grant-winning series Bandida! You can check out her artwork on this year's SPX program cover or at her website. Ben Passmore Ben Passmore lives in Philly. His comics are about crime, monsters, anarchism, sexual dysfunction, police brutality, art theory, and his feels. Creator of DAYGLOAYHOLE, Goodbye, and Your Black Friend, and contributer at the Nib. In DAYGLOAYHOLE 2 Ben is a cockroach that even is guts can't love. Social and political commentary mixed with punk nonsense and gore drawn in vibrant florescent colors. Jason Lutes Jason Lutes was born in New Jersey in 1967 and grew up reading American superhero and Western comics. In the late 1970s he discovered Heavy Metal magazine and the tabletop role-playing game Dungeons & Dragons, both of which proved major influences on his creative development. Lutes graduated from the Rhode Island School of Design with a BFA in illustration, and in 1993 he began drawing a weekly comics page called Jar of Fools for Seattle's The Stranger. Lutes lives in Vermont with his partner and two children, where he teaches comics at the Center for Cartoon Studies. Devastatingly relevant and beautifully told, Berlin is one of the great epics of the comics medium, created over the past two decades by Jason Lutes. Berlin is an intricate look at the fall of the Weimar Republic through the eyes of its citizens, zeroing in on the street level to demonstrate the slow rise of fascism and extremism. Benji Nate Benji Nate is a Puerto Rico born cartoonist and high school drop out living in the States. Her works include Catboy, Lorna, Ghoulfriend, and other things.  Her most recent venture is co-editing North America's greatest, best selling, and most popular comics periodical, Good Boy! Magazine which is debuting at this year's SPX Carolyn Nowak Carolyn Nowak graduated from the University of Michigan's School of Art and Design in 2011. She lives in Ann Arbor. In addition to her acclaimed mini-comics, Nowak has drawn twelve issues of Lumberjanes and is preparing a Buffy the Vampire Slayer middle-grade book, New School Nightmare. At SPX 2018, Nowak and Top Shelf Productions compile the Ignatz-winning "Radishes" and "Diana's Electric Tongue," along with several other stories old and new, in her full-color debut collection, Girl Town. Carol Tyler Carol Tyler emerged as a distinctive voice from the underground comics scene of the 1980s, with work featured in Weirdo, Wimmen's Comix, and Twisted Sisters. Her long form works include the autobiographical Late Bloomer (2005) and Soldier's Heart (2012), and her books have been nominated for various awards, including multiple Ignatz Awards, an Eisner Award, and the LA Times Book Prize. Tyler received the 2016 Cartoonist Studio Prize from the Slate Book Review. Her most recent book, Fab4 Mania, chronicles her teenaged obsession with The Beatles in a facsimile of her 1965 journal. Nate Powell Nate Powell is a New York Times best-selling graphic novelist born in Little Rock, Arkansas in 1978. He began self-publishing at age 14, and graduated from School of Visual Arts in 2000. His work includes March, the graphic novel autobiography of congressman and civil rights icon John Lewis; You Don't Say, Any Empire, Swallow Me Whole, The Silence of Our Friends, The Year of the Beasts, and Rick Riordan's The Lost Hero. Powell is the first and only cartoonist ever to win the National Book Award. His work has also received a Robert F. Kennedy Book Award, three Eisner Awards, two Ignatz Awards, two Harvey Awards, the Michael L. Printz Award, a Coretta Scott King Author Award, four YALSA Great Graphic Novels For Teens selections, the Walter Dean Myers Award, and has twice been a finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize. Powell's newest book is the demon-haunted Arkansas fairytale Come Again (Top Shelf Productions, 2018). Photo by Ben Rains 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 650 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 Award is a festival prize held every year at SPX recognizing outstanding achievement in comics and cartooning, with the winners chosen by attendees at the show. As in previous years, profits from the SPX will go to support the SPX Graphic Novel Gift Program, which funds graphic novel purchases for public and academic libraries, as well as the Comic Book Legal Defense Fund (CBLDF), which protects the First Amendment rights of comic book readers and professionals. For more information on the CBLDF, visit their website at http://www.cbldf.org. For more information on the Small Press Expo, please visit http://www.smallpressexpo.com. Small Press Expo P.O. Box 5704 Bethesda, Maryland 20824 www.smallpressexpo.com Email: press@smallpressexpo.com STAY CONNECTED ‌ ‌ ‌

City Paper reviews AU's Steadman exhibit

The American University Museum Looks Back At the Weird, Wild World of Ralph Steadman[in print as Spotified]

Stephanie Rudig

Washington City Paper June 29, 2018 , p. 24

online at https://www.washingtoncitypaper.com/arts/museums-galleries/article/21011563/ralph-steadman-a-retrospective-at-the-american-university-museum-reviewed

Tonight! Lucy Bellwood in DC

100 DEMON DIALOGUES, Lucy Bellwood

https://www.eastcitybookshop.com/event/100-demon-dialogues-lucy-bellwood-0

Event date: 

Friday, June 29, 2018 - 6:30pm

Event address:

Store Hours

Mon - Sat  10a - 8p

Sun  11a - 6p

 645 Pennsylvania Ave SE

Washington, DC  20003

tel  202.290.1636

 

Join East City Bookshop and Lucy Bellwood, author of 100 Demon Dialogues, for a book talk and signing. 

Let us know you're coming on Facebook or at rsvp@eastcitybookshop.com

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100 Demon Dialogues, a collection of comics, traces Bellwood's changing relationship with her Inner Critic over the course of 100 consecutive days. After connecting with thousands of readers online, she's taking the book on the road to hear your stories of living with imposter syndrome. If you've ever felt like you're a fake or a failure, this collection is guaranteed to make you feel less alone.

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Lucy Bellwood is a professional Adventure Cartoonist based in Portland, OR. As an outspoken advocate for transparency in creative careers, Lucy has presented on subjects like following an independent path, the finances of freelancing, and working with imposter syndrome at events and institutions around the globe. Her latest collection takes a hilarious, humanizing look at what it's really like to persevere when our Inner Critics are trying to take the wheel. She is a member of Helioscope, the largest collective of freelance comics professionals in North America, where she spearheads the studio's Mentorship Program.

Rob Rogers' cartoons to be displayed near White House says Comic Riffs

Pittsburgh Post-Gazette's spiked anti-Trump cartoons will get a D.C. museum exhibit

by Michael Cavna
Washington Post Comic Riffs blog June 29 2018
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/comic-riffs/wp/2018/06/29/pittsburgh-post-gazettes-spiked-anti-trump-cartoons-will-get-a-d-c-museum-exhibit/

Doug Marlette recalled in Post editorial

A war is on [in print as A war of words - and so much more].

by Kathleen Parker Opinion writer
Washington Post  June 27 2018, p. A27

online at https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/a-war-is-on/2018/06/26/05011e80-797f-11e8-aeee-4d04c8ac6158_story.html

June 28: Hobbes Holluck workshop in Va.

Hobbes Holluck (Fuzzbuquet, Magic Bullet) will be at Handley Regional Library in Winchester, Va., tonight from 6-8 sharing how he makes comics and doing a short workshop.

 

Flugennock's Latest'n'Greatest: "Wine Stasi"

Mike Flugennock, DC's anarchist cartoonist's latest:

From the People who Brought You the "Wine Moms" comes:
"Wine Stasi"
http://sinkers.org/stage/?p=2550

By now, you've all heard the tale of Permit Patty, the San Francisco woman who called the cops on an 8 year-old girl for selling bottled water in front of her home; calling the cops on black kids doing normal kid stuff seems to be a big trend among the pasty these days. It's also interesting to note that Patty is also a Hillary Girl; it figures that she's a Demanding To Talk To The Manager kinda gal.

Talk about the banality of tyranny; the American Stasi has turned out to be a bunch of middle-aged white women with mobile phones.

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Cosplay in Arlington

Arts Focus: Arlington's CostumeLab Helps Superheroes Keep It Together

by ARLnow.com  June 27, 2018

https://www.arlnow.com/2018/06/27/arts-focus-arlingtons-costumelab-helps-superheroes-keep-it-together/

The Comics Journal interviews local cartoonist Shawn Martinbrough

"You Liked That? Really?": A Conversation with Shawn Martinbrough

BY Alex Dueben Jun 27, 2018
http://www.tcj.com/110239-2/

New caricatures unveiled at Hay-Adams' Off the Record bar

Historic DC hotel unveils new Mueller-inspired cocktail
By Judy Kurtz - 06/26/18
http://thehill.com/blogs/in-the-know/in-the-know/394205-historic-dc-hotel-unveils-new-mueller-inspired-cocktail

The Hay-Adams’ Off the Record Bar Debuts New Coaster Collection with Sarah Sanders, Robert Mueller and More

June 26, 2018
http://thewashingtonlobbyist.com/the-hay-adams-off-the-record-bar-debuts-new-coaster-collection-with-sarah-sanders-robert-mueller-and-more/

One new coaster is by KAL, and two are by Matt Wuerker.