Small Press Expo Sponsors Events with Artisphere, Library of Congress, Politics & Prose and Atomic Books

Hey Everyone!! For those of you who see SPX as just a mere weekend festival.. Ha!! Again, we say HA!!! There is a bunch of amazingly cool stuff going on both the week before and the week after SPX's Grand Event on September 14-15, such as The Beat's Heidi MacDonald giving a lecture at the prestigious Library of Congress, Los Bros Hernandez and Lynda Barry at the National Book Festival held on The Mall and all the cool comic stuff Artisphere has on tap. This is in addition to the Jeff Smith signing that our fav DC independent bookstore Politics & Prose is going to do, as well as the annual SPXplosion held by our fav Baltimore independent book store, Atomic Books. Note that you can win a free one-day SPX admission if you create your own comic and submit it at the four Artisphere events prior to SPX. It's a great list of cool things to do, if you ask us. Be there, everywhere!!!! See Ya, Warren and Mike P.S. Oh yeah, further info on SPX and stuff can always be found at  http://www.spxpo.com. SPX Sponsored Events September 5 - 13 September 5     6:30-9:30pm - Local comics guru Raf Roberts in Residency at Artisphere http://tinyurl.com/kr425ff September 7 1-4pm - Local comics guru Raf Roberts in Residency at Artisphere http://tinyurl.com/kr425ff September 12 6:30-9:30pm - Comics creator Steve Loya in Residency at Artisphere http://tinyurl.com/kr425ff 7pm - Woodrow Wilson High School- Jeff Smith signing the just released color and hardback edition of acclaimed series, RASL. http://www.politics-prose.com/event/book/jeff-smith-rasl September 13 Noon - LIbrary of Congress - Madison Building - The Beat's very own Heidi MacDonald will do a lecture titled, After Watchmen and Maus: Exploring the Graphic Novel. 6pm - Peter Bagge signing and SPXplosion at Atomic Books in Baltimore, followed by readings from Michael Kupperman, Frank Santoro, Brian Ralph. T. Bak Edwards, Anya Davidson, Sam Henderson and Dave Plunkert. http://www.atomicbooks.com/calendar.html SPX Sponsored Events September 14 - 22 September 14   1-4pm - Comics creator Steve Loya in Residency at Artisphere http://tinyurl.com/kr425ff September 16   10:30pm - Politics & Prose - Liniers in a Spanish language presentation and book signing on his latest from Toon Books, The Big Wet Balloon.             http://www.politics-prose.com/event/book/ricardo-liniers-big-wet-balloon 7pm - Politics & Prose - Panel Discussion: The Art and Style of Graphics Novels  with Rutu Modan, Gene Yang, Laura Lee Gulledge and Matt Phelan. http://www.politics-prose.com/event/book/art-and-style-of-graphic-novels-panel-discussion September 21 6-9pm - Artisphere - Comics Making Studio with Members of the D.C. Conspiracy, live music by Jacob Warrenfelz/Triage at 7pm and 8:15pm. http://tinyurl.com/kr425ff SPX at the National Book Festival on The Mall September 22              Presentations at the Graphic Novel & Science Fiction Pavillion Noon-12:45pm - Lynda Barry 12:55-1:40pm - Gilbert Hernandez 1:50PM - 2:35pm - Jaime Hernandez             Book Signings 1:00-2:00pm - Lynda Barry 3:00-4:00pm - Gilbert Hernandez 3:00-4:00pm - Jaime Hernandez              Info on the festival can be found at www.loc.gov/bookfest.