PR: Announcing Small Press Expo 2026 Special Guests

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For Immediate Release Contact Email: press@smallpressexpo.com   Small Press Expo Announces Lisa Hanawalt, Julia Wertz, Peter Bagge, Frederick Nolan and Jared Cullum as Special Guests for SPX 2026   Bethesda, Maryland - July 16, 2026   Media Release - Small Press Expo is proud to announce the first group of Special Guests for SPX 2026. The show takes place on Saturday, September 12, and Sunday, September 13, with programming and workshops about the amazing world of independent comics as well as an exhibitor floor featuring over 450 creators. Read more about SPX 2026 Special Guests here. Additional Special Guests will be announced over the next few weeks.   SPX 2026 is honored to have the following creators as Special Guests to this year's show. Banner by Sanika Phawde Visit the SPX 2026 Website for More Info Lisa Hanawalt I Can’t Stop Thinking About Horses and Sex marks the long-awaited return of Tuca & Bertie creator and BoJack Horseman producer/production designer Lisa Hanawalt to comics. This is the honest, silly, horny and vulnerable memoir of a horse girl, now in her forties and reflecting back on a lifetime of obsessions. Whether Hanawalt is confronting large life issues like whether or not to have kids, being an anxious lil freak, caring for a sick horse, revisiting childhood trauma, or dealing with a major breakup and the ensuing lustfulness—she delivers a reading experience that’s relatable, affirming, and almost always hilarious. In lush colors and kinetic lines, she charts the strange terrain of life, one bumpy, dusty horseback ride at a time. Julia Wertz Julia Wertz is thrilled to be coming back to SPX after over a decade of absence. The last time she attended, she was single, urban-exploring dirtbag living in NYC and she's returning this year as a married mother living in California, but probably still kind of a dirtbag. She'll be selling/signing copies of her newest book Bury Me Already (It's Nice Down Here) as well as some of her older books. And maybe some hats. Come say hi!  Peter Bagge We are so excited to announce that Peter Bagge is a special guest at SPX 2026! He is is one of the primary architects of the alternative comics genre that exploded in the 1980s and 1990s. His bestselling comic series, Hate, is arguably the Great American Grunge novel. Part screwball comedy, part soap opera, part loose autobiography, Hate is an enduring chronicle of the 1990s as well as riotously relatable to anyone bumbling through their twenties. Frederick Nolan Frederick Nolan is the auther of Major Taylor: The World's Fastest Man from Drawn & Quarterly. Marshall Walter “Major” Taylor, a Black man who was one of the greatest American athletes of the early 20th century. Taylor was born in 1878 in Indianapolis and came of age during the height of the Jim Crow era, facing racism at every turn.  Cartoonist Frederick Noland is a cyclist himself and in this epic biography of America’s first Black world champion, he thrills in the records Taylor broke and the adoring public he found across around the world. Noland documents how racism inflected Black life in the post Civil War era: cyclists would collude to injure Taylor, and he faced segregationist policies even in liberal cities such as San Francisco. Jared Cullum Jared Cullum is a Reuben Award (Best Graphic Novel) winning | 2-time Eisner Comic Industry Award nominated Author-Cartoonist and traditional painter of things. He's best known for his award winning graphic novel series, Kodi, and work on the spin off series Usagi Yojimbo: Kaito '84. Top Shelf is proud to present the sequel, Kodi 2: A Place to Call Home at SPX where Jared will be signing and showing original hand-painted watercolor and gouache pages. 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 450 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. 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

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PR: Small Press Expo Announces Comics Workshops At Visarts

 

Come and attend four comics workshops!

SPX 2026 Announces Four In-Person Workshops In Partnership with Visarts. Small Press Expo is proud to present a series of four comics-focused workshops on September 5th and 6th, the weekend before the Expo. These classes are hosted by VisArts, a nonprofit organization and hub for artistic exploration and social impact located in Rockville, MD. Workshops will showcase local comics creators sharing skills in the areas of zine creation, comics writing, and character design. Please see the full schedule below! Signup links are at the end of each class. Spaces are limited. Small Press Expo will be held on September 12 and 13 at the Bethesda North Marriott Hotel and Convention Center. There will be 24 Special Guests, 22 Panels, 18 Workshops and over 450 creators selling the best in indie comics. Banner by Sanika Phawde. Workshop Location: Visarts 155 Gibbs Street Rockville, MD 20850 Parking is available nearby. 0.5 miles from the Rockville Metro. Google Map WORKSHOPS with Signup Links Classes cost either $20 or $30 Saturday September 5, 2026 11am - 2pm: Intro to Zine Making Course Description: In this class, students will engage the art of free expression through self-publishing by exploring a mobile library of zines, minicomics, and DIY publications, learning several book-making techniques. Students will develop a concept from start to print for the creation of their own black and white zine. Instructor: Adam Griffiths is a cartoonist and arts administrator based in the Washington, DC area. He has exhibited his work at Transformer, Rhizome DC, Strathmore Mansion and Washington Project for the Arts. Griffith runs DwightMess, a comics 'compound' that includes several exhibition galleries, a Riso studio and screen-printing workshop, along with an extensive comics/zine library. Cost: $30.00 Sign Up: https://canvas.visartscenter.org/classes/418. Saturday September 5, 2026  3pm - 5pm: Autobio Comics Course Description: This class will explore how paying attention to the everyday can feed our creativity and comics practice, whether students are interested in making mini comics, diary comics, or any other kind of narrative. The emphasis will be on play and practice as the class looks at exercises relevant to autobiography generally and comics specifically. Instructor: Athena (she/they) is a cartoonist originally from Milwaukee, Wisconsin now living and working in Washington, D.C. Her autobiographical comics have been featured in Nat. Brut and The Washington Post, and in 2021 she received an Honorable Mention for the Chicago Alternative Comics Expo (CAKE) Cupcake Award. Their self-published comic "Nino" won the 2026 Cartoonist United Minicomics Award in Nonfiction. Cost: $20.00 Sign Up: https://canvas.visartscenter.org/classes/419  Sunday September 6th, 2026 11am - 2pm: Character Design Course Description: This class is for those interested in creating their own characters for writing into stories, comics, or games. In this workshop, you’ll put together your own characters in collage form before drawing your own original character from the front, back, and sides. By the time the workshop is done, you’ll have at least one fully-designed character that you can use in a creative project of your choice.  Instructor: Nami Oshiro, an arts educator and illustrator creating drawings, paintings, and comics that play with everyday absurdities experienced by people with unique relationships to societal constructs. Cost: $30.00 Sign Up: https://canvas.visartscenter.org/classes/420  3pm - 5pm: Hometown Histories Course Description: In this hands-on class, you’ll explore how comics can be used to capture memories and observations from the place you grew up (e.g., small moments, local characters, familiar landmarks, and scenes that reveal something about a time and place.) Through guided exercises, you’ll learn how to distill a bit of hometown history into a four-panel comic. Instructor: Olivier Ballou works as a creative director in Washington, DC. He creates history comics about his Quebec hometown. His first comic “Val-d’Or Néon” was shortlisted for the 2024 Doug Wright graphic novel award. Cost: $20.00 Sign Up: https://canvas.visartscenter.org/classes/421 Copyright © 2026 Small Press Expo, All rights reserved.   You are getting this email because you have a table at SPX 2025!  Our mailing address is:  Small Press Expo P.O. Box 5704 Bethesda, Maryland 20824

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