Tuesday, August 23, 2022

PR: Announcing Debut Books at SPX 2022



For Immediate Release


Contact: Warren Bernard


Email: press@smallpressexpo.com

 

Debut Books at Small Press Expo 2022

 

Bethesda, Maryland - August 23, 2022

 

Media Release - Small Press Expo is thrilled to announce that over 170 books and comics will debut at SPX 2022. The festival takes place on Saturday and Sunday, September 17-18, at the Bethesda North Marriott Hotel & Conference Center and will have over 500 creators, 280 exhibitor tables, 21 programming panels and 14 hands-on workshops to introduce attendees to the amazing world of independent and small press comics.


A complete list of debuts, including cover images and publishing information, can be found on the SPX web site.

 

SPX 2022 is proud to list a highlighted selection of books debuting this year:

A Voyage To Arcturus: An Illuminated Edition - Beehive Books

Visionary cartoonist Jim Woodring has chosen to illustrate an unclassifiable 1920 novel by the legendary British writer David Lindsay. A Voyage to Arcturus is a baffling amalgam of mysticism, science fiction, sexual politics, and outrageous fantasy, and stands as one of the greatest works of sustained, untrammeled imagination ever achieved. Woodring's drawings capture the writhing currents of interacting forces that lie beneath the wonderfully arcane prose.

Featuring an introduction by Alan Moore.


Who Will Make The Pancakes: Five Stories - Fantagraphics

In Megan Kelso's  suite of five brilliant comics stories united by themes of motherhood, family, and love.Who Will Make the Pancakes collects five deeply social stories by the acclaimed cartoonist Megan Kelso, exploring the connective tissue that binds us together despite our individual, interior experience. These stories, created over the past 15 years wrestle with the concept of motherhood and the way the experience informs and impacts concepts of identity, racism, class, love, and even abuse.

The Bend of Luck - Top Shelf

Some guys have all the luck… but not all luck is good. The award-winning duo behind Coin-Op Comics, Peter and Maria Hoey, return with a mind-bending tale of fortune and family. Imagine a world where Luck, the most ephemeral of ideas, has a physical form. Precious stones of luck, mined like gold, are worn as bringers of fortune. But luck breaks both ways. While the blue gems may grant advantage to those who wear them, their blessing is fickle and unpredictable. In the blink of an eye, good luck can turn to bad.

This graphic novel tale is told in alternating scenes between the two generations, The Bend of Luck follows felicity's course, like an arrow, through a family's destiny.


Good Person Trouble - Fieldmouse Press


Sebastian, the tobacconist, stands trial for the disappearance of his cousin Teresa, but all is not what it seems in this courtroom drama. Bertolt Brecht meets Judith Butler in this debut graphic novel by Noëlle Kröger, translated by Natalye Childress.

Thieves - NoBrow


In Lucie Byron's first English-translated graphic novel, What happened last night? Ella can't seem to remember a single thing from the party the night before at a mysterious stranger's mansion, and she sure as heck doesn't know why she's woken up in her bed surrounded by a magpie's nest of objects that aren't her own. And she can't stop thinking about her huge crush on Madeleine, who she definitely can't tell about her sudden penchant for kleptomania… But does Maddy have secrets of her own? Can they piece together that night between them and fix the mess of their chaotic personal lives in time to form a normal, teenage relationship? That would be nice.

Fruiting Bodies - Silver Sprocket


Ashley Robin Franklin tells the story of Frances, her brother, and his annoying friend Trent as they take a road trip through the Pacific Northwest. A wrong turn strands them in the rain-soaked woods. Luckily, they're found by a beautiful, friendly stranger who is eager to help them—but is her convenient arrival their salvation, or something else entirely?

A Brief Guide to Crutonia - Self Published


Created by Deborah Lang and Robert Christie, Crutonia is a kingdom full of whimsical characters, strange beasts, and stories to be told. A Brief Guide to Crutonia, from the creators of "Quirk's Quest: Into the Outlands" and "Quirk's Quest: The Lost and the Found" features maps, creature profiles, and information about all aspects of Crutonian culture.

Visit the SPX 2022 Website for More Info About This Years Show

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 Awards are held every year at SPX recognizing outstanding achievement in comics and cartooning.


For more information on the Small Press Expo, please visit http://www.smallpressexpo.com.

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Flugennock's Latest'n'Greatest: "Information Terrorist"

from DC's anarchist cartoonist-

"Information Terrorist"
http://sinkers.org/stage/?p=3507

      "...Some three weeks after Schumer helped push the (Ukraine aid) 
bill into law, on July 14, Andriy Shapovalov, a Ukrainian civil servant whose 
salary was paid for by U.S. taxpayer monies, convened a 'round table' in Kiev on  'countering disinformation'.

      Shapovalov, in his role as the acting head of Ukraine's Center 
for Countering Disinformation, published a list of the names of 72 people whom accused of deliberately spreading disinformation about Ukraine. Shapovalov labelled them 'information terrorists', adding that Ukraine was preparing legislation so that such people can be prosecuted as 'war criminals'."

      —Scott Ritter, reporting at Consortium News, 08.03.2022

Yeah, kids, isn't that a flabbergaster? One helluva humdinger of a 
doozy. I thought Biden — who never met a US war of aggression he 
didn't like — had pretty much destroyed my Goofy Meter when he called 
Putin a "war criminal", but this shit's got Goofy Meters exploding 
worldwide.

Just so we're clear — any journalist reporting the truth from on the 
ground, any journalist or essayist whose reporting or opinions 
contradict the official US/NATO Western media narrative? That's right, 
an "information terrorist", a "war criminal". Ben Norton? Aaron Maté? 
Rania Khalek? Alina Lipp? Eva Bartlett? Lee Camp? Yep, that's right. 
Information terrorists, war criminals.

The Gallup numbers, which I peeped not soon after, really drove the 
goofiness home. After 70-odd years of lies about Hiroshima, the Tonkin 
Gulf, My Lai, Cambodia, Laos, the Drug War, Kuwaiti incubator babies, 
Iraqi WMD's, Afghanistan, Havana Syndrome, Russiagate, trust in US 
media is at an all-time low, and I'm an "information terrorist" for 
doing these goddamn cartoons? I'M a goddamn "war criminal" for calling 
out the US state and media on their lies?

Bwah ha ha ha ha hah. The West™ can't collapse a day too soon for me.

-----

"Chuck Schumer's War on Free Speech", Scott Ritter at Consortium News 
08.03.2022
https://consortiumnews.com/2022/08/03/scott-ritter-chuck-schumers-war-on-free-speech/

"Biden calls Putin a 'war criminal' after meeting with troops in 
Poland", ABC News 03.25.2022
https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/biden-calls-putin-war-criminal-meeting-troops-poland/story?id=83670309

"U.S. Declaring Journalists 'War Criminals'", Lee Camp at MintPress 
News 08.16.2022
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fKQcb-hEmgg

Ben Norton at The Grayzone:
https://thegrayzone.com/author/ben-norton/

"NATO-backed network of Syria dirty war propagandists identified", 
Aaron Maté at The Grayzone 08.01.2022
https://thegrayzone.com/2022/08/01/nato-backed-network-of-syria-dirty-war-propagandists-identified/

Rania Khalek Dispatches at Breakthrough News:
https://raniakhalek.com/category/breakthrough-news/

Rania Khalek on Instagram:
https://www.instagram.com/raniakhalek/

"German journalist faces three years prison over reporting from 
eastern Ukraine", Steve Sweeney at Morning Star News, 06.27.2022
https://morningstaronline.co.uk/article/w/german-journalist-faces-three-years-prison-over-reporting-donbass-region

"Eva Bartlett: 'Ukraine Has a Kill List, and I'm On It'", 21st Century 
Wire 06.12.2022
https://21stcenturywire.com/2022/06/12/eva-bartlett-ukraine-has-a-kill-list-and-im-on-it/

"Behind The Headlines": Lee Camp videos at MintPress News:
https://www.mintpressnews.com/category/behind-the-headlines/

"Media Confidence Ratings at Record Lows", Gallup Poll 07.18.2022
https://news.gallup.com/poll/394817/media-confidence-ratings-record-lows.aspx


Mike Flugennock, Political Cartoons: http://www.sinkers.org/stage
Mike's press kit: http://sinkers.org/stage/?page_id=2

Cavna on Funky, Jenkins on Funny Pages

How 'Funky Winkerbean' became the darkest strip on the comics pages [in print as 'Funky Winkerbean's' ever-changing world]

Over its 50 years, the sensitive comic has evolved from such subjects as high school gym class to suicide, abuse and cancer

Comics Research Bibliography citations update, 8/22/22

 

IJOCA goes electric is complete; all issues are available now digitally

August 21, 2022

https://ijoca.blogspot.com/2022/08/ijoca-goes-electric-is-complete-all.html

 

INTERVIEW: Dacre Stoker and Chris McAuley talk DRACULA THE RETURN: CULT OF THE WHITE WORM

Rebecca Oliver Kaplan

08/22/2022

https://www.comicsbeat.com/interview-dacre-stoker-and-chris-mcauley-talk-dracula-the-return-cult-of-the-white-worm/

 

Meet the New Addams Family From Tim Burton's Wednesday

Catherine Zeta-Jones and Luis Guzmán take on the roles of Morticia and Gomez Addams in the Netflix series, with Jenna Ortega and Isaac Ordonez as their macabre children.

By Anthony Breznican

August 16, 2022

https://www.vanityfair.com/hollywood/2022/08/addams-family-first-look-wednesday

 

C2E2 2022 PHOTOS - PART 1-2: Friday

Posted by Dennis Viau on August 22, 2022

https://icv2.com/articles/news/view/51954/c2e2-2022-photos-part-1

https://icv2.com/articles/news/view/51953/c2e2-2022-photos-part-2

 

Why the She-Hulk Series Made One Big Change to the Character

Head writer Jessica Gao explains a major divergence between the She-Hulk comics and the TV show.

  By Don Kaye | August 22, 2022

https://www.denofgeek.com/tv/why-she-hulk-series-made-one-big-change-character/

 

Why Marvel Shorts Like I Am Groot Are Key to Future MCU Success

Marvel One-Shots used to be a vital and fun part of the MCU, but I Am Groot paves the way for a new version of the old strategy, one that could ignite the fandom in a fresh audience.

  By George Chrysostomou | August 22, 2022

https://www.denofgeek.com/tv/marvel-shorts-i-am-groot-key-to-future-mcu-success/

 

Some Very Biased Thoughts about The Sandman on Netflix

It was never going to be possible for me to watch The Sandman on Netflix with any pretense of objectivity.

by Martha Thomases

08/22/2022

https://www.comicsbeat.com/some-very-biased-thoughts-about-the-sandman-on-netflix/

 

Remembering the Art of J. J. Sempé

A salute to the French cartoonist and longtime cover contributor to the magazine, who died on August 11th.

August 22, 2022

August 29, 2022 Issue

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2022/08/29/remembering-the-art-of-j-j-sempe

 

Anita Kunz's "No Photos, Please!"

The artist discusses the enduring allure of the "Mona Lisa," the puzzle of celebrity, and which famous people she would invite to dinner.

By Françoise Mouly

August 22, 2022

https://www.newyorker.com/culture/cover-story/cover-story-2022-08-29

 

"My Purpose Is Simply To Tell People's Stories": A Visit with Igort, and a Look at His New Ukrainian Notebook

Valerio Stivé | August 22, 2022

https://www.tcj.com/my-purpose-is-simply-to-tell-peoples-stories-a-visit-with-igort-and-a-look-at-his-new-ukrainian-notebook/

 

Funny Pages Mocks the Idea That Hardship Makes Art More Authentic

Owen Kline's directorial debut follows a privileged teenage artist who decides to impose some grittiness on his life to improve his work.

  by Dan Schindel

Hyperallergic August 21 2022

https://hyperallergic.com/754636/funny-pages-indie-comics-review/

 

The Power of Hugs in Anime

By Maya Phillips

New York Times (August 22, 2022): C1, 6.

Online at https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2022/08/11/arts/anime-hugs.html

Monday, August 22, 2022

Oct 11-15: Graphic novelists among others at GMU

GMU: Fall For The Book Festival Announces 2022 Headliners

Speakers for the 2022 Fall for the Book include Emily St. John Mandel, graphic novelist Gene Luen Yang, and Watchmen author Alan Moore.

Comics Research Bibliography citations update, 8/21/22


Get Graphic: Out of the Shadows with Djet

Interview by Troy-Jeffrey Allen

Aug 08, 2022

https://previewsworld.com/Article/263531-Get-Graphic-Out-of-the-Shadows-with-Djet

 

Louis's Little Brother Rocks On

Fanny Britt and Isabelle Arsenault's sequel to their graphic novel "Louis Undercover" turns the music up a notch.

By Vera Brosgol

A version of this article appears in print on Aug. 21, 2022, Page 18 of the Sunday Book Review with the headline: Rock On.

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/08/19/books/review/fanny-britt-isabelle-arsenault-forever-truffle.html

 

FOREVER TRUFFLE: Three Stories, by Fanny Britt. Illustrated by Isabelle Arsenault. Translated by Susan Ouriou.

LOUIS UNDERCOVER, by Fanny Britt. Illustrated by Isabelle Arsenault. Translated by Christelle Morelli and Susan Ouriou.

 

Comic Store In Your Future: Always, Always Learning

August 20, 2022

by Rod Lamberti

https://bleedingcool.com/comics/comic-store-in-your-future-always-always-learning/

 

Convention Recap: Steel City Con

Scoop August 19 2022

https://scoop.previewsworld.com/Home/4/1/73/1017?ArticleID=263704

 

Steel City Con in Photos

Scoop August 19 2022

https://scoop.previewsworld.com/Home/4/1/73/1018?ArticleID=263677

 

The Last Gentleman: I Thought I Said No More Obits! [Tom Palmer]

Tom Brevoort

Man With A Hat! blog August 21 2022

https://tombrevoort.substack.com/p/the-last-gentleman

 

Netflix's Half-Assed Adaptation of Neil Gaiman's The Sandman

Despite faithfully recreating the story of the beloved comic book series, the TV show lacks the verve of the original.

 by Dan Schindel August 16, 2022

https://hyperallergic.com/754186/sandman-neil-gaiman-netflix-review/

 

Holy cats! Netflix drops surprise Sandman bonus episode!

Adapts beloved stories "A Dream of a Thousand Cats" and "Calliope"

Taimur Dar

08/19/2022

https://www.comicsbeat.com/netflix-drops-surprise-sandman-bonus-episode/

 

Neil Gaiman doesn't sound too optimistic about the pricey Sandman getting another season

He got his helmet, ruby, and bag of sand, but when will Dream get his second season?

Sam Barsanti

AV Club August 21 2022

https://www.avclub.com/the-sandman-might-not-get-a-second-season-on-netflix-1849439520

 

Beyondtopia Legends spotlights Indonesian artists

Indonesian artists get the spotlight in in an anthology of folklore inspired tales by Bryan Valenza and Henry Barajas

Heidi MacDonald

08/19/2022

https://www.comicsbeat.com/beyondtopia-legends-spotlights-indonesian-artists/

 

Review: 'Dragon Ball Super: Super Hero' Is Deluxe Fan Service

By Calum Marsh

A version of this article appears in print on Aug. 19, 2022, Section C, Page 4 of the New York edition with the headline: Oh, No! Earth's Threatened. We All Know What's Next..

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/08/18/movies/review-dragon-ball-super-super-hero.html

 

Breathtaker Exhibit Opens Aug. 22 in Westminster, MD

Scoop August 19 2022

https://scoop.previewsworld.com/Home/4/1/73/1012?ArticleID=263687

 

Chris. 2022.

Why Jewish fans feel erased from Marvel movies

August 17, 2022

https://www.washingtonpost.com/video/entertainment/why-jewish-fans-feel-erased-from-marvel-movies/2022/08/17/5302f154-8a41-4f39-8ce6-e28d30318296_video.html

 

Michael Cusimano 1950 - 2022 Obituary [caricaturist]

Lombardo Funeral Home (July 2022)

https://lombardofuneralhome.com/tribute/details/19611/Michael-Cusimano/obituary.html

 

Little Nemo in Slumberland: Exploring the Comic Before Jason Momoa's Netflix Film

By Rose McQuirter

Published Aug 10, 2022

https://movieweb.com/little-nemo-in-slumberland/

 

GASPAR SALADINO'S NEWSPAPER STRIP LETTERING

Todd Klein

August 19, 2022.

https://kleinletters.com/Blog/gaspar-saladinos-newspaper-strip-lettering/

 

Chappatte Cartoon and Religious Restlessness

by D. D. Degg

August 21, 2022

https://www.dailycartoonist.com/index.php/2022/08/21/chappatte-cartoon-and-religious-restlessness/

 

Cartoon Denigrates Muslim Men and Women [ Marcel Boudreaux, Canada]

by D. D. Degg

August 21, 2022

https://www.dailycartoonist.com/index.php/2022/08/21/cartoon-denigrates-muslim-men-and-women/

 

Comic Illustrator Bill Morrison on Disney, 'The Simpsons,' & More

The Lincoln Park native talks about his 40-plus year career working for some of the biggest names in comics

Brendan Mears Connery

August 11, 2022

https://www.hourdetroit.com/art-topics/comic-illustrator-bill-morrison-on-disney-the-simpsons-more/

 

New to Comics Kingdom – Bob Mankoff Presents: Show Me The Funny

by D. D. Degg

August 16, 2022

https://www.dailycartoonist.com/index.php/2022/08/16/new-to-comics-kingdom-bob-mankoff-presents-show-me-the-funny/

 

News Corp Australia Cancels Comic Strips

by D. D. Degg

August 17, 2022

https://www.dailycartoonist.com/index.php/2022/08/17/news-corp-australia-cancels-comic-strips/

 

Jay Leeson Texas Tech football cartoons featured in Lubbock A-J [sports]

Lubbock Avalanche-Journal August 17 2022

https://www.lubbockonline.com/story/sports/2022/08/17/jay-leeson-texas-tech-football-cartoons-featured-in-lubbock-a-j/65408546007/

 

Nebraska GOP criticized for tweet with cartoon depicting oral sex [Gender Queer]

    Luna Stephens

    Omaha World-Herald Aug 19, 2022

https://omaha.com/news/state-and-regional/govt-and-politics/nebraska-gop-criticized-for-tweet-with-cartoon-depicting-oral-sex/article_cb60b2c4-2016-11ed-8c24-4ff4dc11f81c.html

 

Elephant with KKK imagery shared on Alabama county GOP page was a mistake, chair says [Woody Harrington]

By Madeleine List

Updated August 19, 2022

https://www.newsobserver.com/news/nation-world/national/article264658764.html

 

Randy Wicks Collection Donated to SCV Historical Society

Carol Rock | Friday, Aug 19, 2022

https://scvnews.com/randy-wicks-collection-donated-to-scv-historical-society/

Sunday, August 21, 2022

ALL IJOCA issues now available digitally

IJOCA goes electric is complete; all issues are available now digitally

August 21, 2022

 

Why Jewish fans feel erased from Marvel movies - video at The Post

Why Jewish fans feel erased from Marvel movies

August 17, 2022

Early comic books borrowed from the Torah and showed characters punching Hitler. But today, many Jewish fans feel erased or misrepresented in superhero stories.

Wheatley and Hempel exhibit opens in outer, outer suburbs

Troy-Jeffrey Allen talks to Djet

Get Graphic: Out of the Shadows with Djet

Interview by Troy-Jeffrey Allen

Comics Research Bibliography citations update, 8/20/22

 

Tom Palmer Sr, Inker Extraordinaire, Dies At The Age Of 81

 August 19, 2022

by Rich Johnston

https://bleedingcool.com/comics/tom-palmer-sr-inker-extraordinaire-dies-at-the-age-of-81/

 

Diamond Comic Distributors Sues GameStop For Three Million Dollars

Posted on August 18, 2022

by Rich Johnston

https://bleedingcool.com/comics/diamond-comic-distributors-sues-gamestop-for-three-million-dollars/

 

Marvel To Publish CrossGen Tales To Keep Disney Trademarks On Them

 August 18, 2022

by Rich Johnston

https://bleedingcool.com/comics/marvel-to-publish-crossgen-tales-to-keep-disney-trademarks-on-them/

 

TITAN LAUNCHES YOUNG READERS IMPRINT, TITAN NOVA

With Intergalactic Extreme-Sports Story by NBA Player Rudy Gobert

Brigid Alverson on August 18, 2022

https://icv2.com/articles/news/view/51933/titan-launches-young-readers-imprint-titan-nova

 

Claymation pioneer is celebrated in documentary 'Claydream' [in print as A Claymation pioneer's herky-jerky life]

Will Vinton, the creator of the California Raisins and other stop-motion characters, is the subject of a rags-to-riches-to-rags tale

Review by Michael O'Sullivan

Washington Post August 19, 2022 : Weekend 16

https://www.washingtonpost.com/movies/2022/08/16/claydream-movie-review/

 

'Tales of the Walking Dead' an anthology of zombie apocalypse survivor stories.

George Dickie

Washington Post TV Week (August 14 2022): 2

 

Is Captain America a virgin? 'She-Hulk' solves this Marvel mystery. [in print as Answered: Is Captain America a virgin?]

Analysis by David Betancourt

Staff writer

Washington Post August 19, 2022: C1-2

online at https://www.washingtonpost.com/comics/2022/08/18/captain-america-virgin-she-hulk/

 

Kevin Feige Confirmed Details of How Steve Rogers' Captain America Lost His Virginity for 'She-Hulk'

Abbey White

August 19, 2022

https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/tv/tv-news/captain-america-virgin-kevin-feige-she-hulk-1235202554/

 

She-Hulk's Captain America Virginity Theory Originated With Chris Evans

The 'Did Steve Rogers have sex?' debate consuming Marvel fans was first discussed by the actor in 2014. Now it's official.

By Anthony Breznican

August 18, 2022

https://www.vanityfair.com/hollywood/2022/08/she-hulk-captain-america-virgin-chris-evans

 

On 'Harley Quinn' love reigns, with a side of chaos

Glen Weldon, J.C. Howard, and Cyrena Touros

Pop Culture Happy Hour August 18, 2022

https://www.npr.org/2022/08/15/1117613074/on-harley-quinn-love-reigns-with-a-side-of-chaos

https://play.podtrac.com/npr-510282/edge1.pod.npr.org/anon.npr-mp3/npr/pchh/2022/08/20220818_pchh_ddccc80f-1feb-434d-a672-74331fb709f3.mp3

https://www.npr.org/transcripts/1117613074

 

"I've Never Had More Fun on a Project": Kyle Strahm on the Art and Adventure of Twig

By David Harper

August 16, 2022

https://sktchd.com/art-feature/kyle-strahm-art-feature-twig/

 

Neil Gaiman on the Power of Fantasy in our Lives

Ngofeen Mputubwele

New Yorker Radio Hour

August 19, 2022

https://www.newyorker.com/podcast/the-new-yorker-radio-hour/neil-gaiman-on-the-sandman-and-the-power-of-dreaming 

https://www.wnycstudios.org/podcasts/tnyradiohour/segments/neil-gaiman-power-fantasy

Saturday, August 20, 2022

Tom King Talks Aloud...again.

Tom Talks Aloud...again. Gotham Year One, Supergirl, One Bad Day, Human Target, Love Everlasting, puppy dogs...and some Covid.

PCHH on Harley Quinn

The Post on Claymation and Captain America's sex live (via She-Hulk)

Claymation pioneer is celebrated in documentary 'Claydream' [i n print as A Claymation pioneer's herky-jerky life]

Will Vinton, the creator of the California Raisins and other stop-motion characters, is the subject of a rags-to-riches-to-rags tale