SPX 2022 Programming - https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLbBfl7COkHI-C2fzweEuXjwAIaqVCuvav
SPX 2022 Panel - Spotlight on Maia Kobabe
Alex Hoffman
SPX 2022 Panel - All Writing is Autobiographical
Robin Enrico, Andrew White, Barbara Stok, Aimée de Jong, and Carla Berrocal
SPX 2022 Panel - Fictionalizing Reality
Jules Bakes, Jarad Greene, Joris Bas Backer, Audra Stang and Coco Fox
SPX 2022 Panel - The New Yorker Cartoonists
Liza Donnelly, Lonnie Millsap, Sofia Warren and Sara Lautman.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DAUgZJHBmNo
The New Yorker cartoon has been around for almost 100 years - why is the artform so beloved? On this panel, which consists of some of the many new and diverse cartoonists that have been brought in, moderator Liza Donnelly examines the past and present world of New Yorker cartoonists with Lonnie Millsap, Sofia Warren and Sara Lautman.
SPX 2022 Panel - Celebrating Twenty-Five Years of Top Shelf
Leigh Walton, Chris Staros, Jeffrey Brown, Hannah Templer, Nate Powell, Jennifer Hayden and Jarod Rosello
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HpQddyV3wbk
The comics publisher Top Shelf was born at SPX 25 years ago. Now join moderator Leigh Walton and Top Shelf co-founder Chris Staros, along with artists Jeffrey Brown, Hannah Templer, Nate Powell, Jennifer Hayden and Jarod Rosello as they celebrate the milestone anniversary, reflect on Top Shelf's past and carve out its future!
SPX 2022 Panel - Trauma, Memoir and Healing
Alice Santos, Kayla E., Katherine Woodman-Maynard, Natalie Norris and Ariel Bordeaux
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mi6pLwcZy4w
Comics are a powerful medium for depicting the impacts of trauma. They can also be a tool in the process of healing from those impacts. What power do they hold as we process our pain and recover? Kayla E., Katherine Woodman-Maynard, Natalie Norris and Ariel Bordeaux discuss the role of memoir in healing from trauma with moderator Alice Santos.
SPX 2022 Panel - Narrative Threads: When it Comes to Storylines, Clothing Matters
Mae Weinstein, Robyn Smith, Rebecca Mock, Dick Carroll and Lucie Bryon.
In any medium, fashion is integral to character design. But it's arguably most important in comics, where time, space, era, status and more are often conveyed in a single panel. Explore how some of your fav illustrators choose which designs to weave in, and which to leave on the rack. Moderator Mae Weinstein (Founder of inklusion comics) is joined by Robyn Smith, Rebecca Mock, Dick Carroll and Lucie Bryon.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ua-kLcT1mRE
How do you craft a comic out of something that really happened? Where is the boundary between art and life? Ignatz Award-winning cartoonist Lauren Weinstein has grappled with these questions for 20 years, making comics about her life as a parent and most recently the lives of domestic violence survivors. In this talk with moderator Meg Lemke, she shows how to pick the stories that transcend the mundane: by keeping one's antenna up for serendipity.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VMMB7VxdTGE
A blazingly honest career-spanning conversation with Ho Che Anderson, who talks about making comics over the last 30 years, from his early erotic graphic novel, "I Wanna Be Your Dog," to, "Black Dogs," to the monumental Martin Luther King Jr. biography to the 1990s Milestone mini series to his latest multi-volume graphic novel, "Godhead." Anderson talks to Fantagraphics co-founder Gary Groth about the ups and downs, the rewards and setbacks of a life in comics.
SPX 2022 Panel - Reflecting on the 90s Zine Revolution
Rachel Miller, Ariel Bordeaux, Megan Kelso, Tom Hart and Jenny Zervakis
SPX 2022 Panel - Spotlight on kuš [Latvia]
Rob Clough, David Schilter, Lote Vilma, Matt Madden and Noah Van Sciver
SPX 2022 Panel - Thalia Zedek and Leela Corman: A Mixed Media Extravaganza
Josh Bayer
SPX 2022 Panel - Comics and Fabulism
Rob Clough, Daryl Seitchik, Rumi Hara, Gabrielle Bell and Kit Anderson
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a6IcO6AsANE
Fabulism refers to a narrative style in which everything seems to make perfect sense until some kind of fantastic element is introduced. Moderator Rob Clough and panelists Daryl Seitchik, Rumi Hara, Gabrielle Bell and Kit Anderson explore the different ways they use absurd, fantastic, and dream imagery in their comics.
SPX 2022 Panel - Enemies of the State: Focus on Megan Kelso
Alex Hoffman, Rob Clough, Daniel Elkin and Jules Bakes
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e7zcgiUmPZg
An insider look at what happens when Hollywood comes-a-knockin'. Join superstar Ronald Wimberly in conversation with Keith Knight about comics and Keith's television adaptation, Woke. The old man at the indie con breaks down his climb from obscure comic strip creator to obscure tv show creator.
SPX 2022 Panel - Punks in Comics: Bianca Xunise and James Spooner in Conversation
Bianca Xunise and James Spooner
SPX 2022 Panel - Insiders and Outsiders: Perspectives on Political & Social Commentary
Warren Bernard, Ruben Bolling, Sofia Warren, Ally Shwed and Andy Warner.
SPX 2022 Panel - Igaguri-Kun and The Judo Manga Revolution
Ryan Holmberg
SPX 2022 Panel - Reflecting on AdHouse Books
Andrew Neal, Sophie Goldstein, Kurt Ankeny, Max Huffman and Chris Pitzer
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=snXOlwAjhs8
Nothing beautiful lasts forever, and after two decades of publishing a wide range of engaging, beautifully designed comics, boutique publishing juggernaut AdHouse Books is shutting down. Join moderator Andrew Neal, Sophie Goldstein, Kurt Ankeny, Max Huffman and the driving force behind AdHouse, Chris Pitzer, as they discuss what AdHouse has meant to them!
SPX 2022 Panel - Depicting Intimacy and Vulnerability in Storytelling
Craig Fisher, Tommi Parrish, Elizabeth Pich, Katriona Chapman and Sophia Glock.
Feb 24, 2023
SPX 2022 Panel - Trans Identities in Fantasy and Fictional Storytelling
L.Nichols, Andi Santagata, Bread Tarleton, Casey Nowak and Tommi Parrish
