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For Immediate Release
Contact: Catherine Fraas
Washington, DC; September 12, 2017 - The Small Press Expo (SPX), the preeminent showcase for the exhibition of independent comics, graphic novels, and alternative political cartoons, is pleased to announce that the Philadelphia Free Library is the 2017 recipient of the Small Press Expo Graphic Novel Gift Program.
This program, the first of its kind in the United States, is an outright gift of graphic novels to the library as selected by the library's collections specialists, who this year selected 87 titles comprising 310 individual books.
To date, the Small Press Expo Graphic Novel Gift Program has given away over 1800 graphic novels and comics to library systems from Virginia to Pennsylvania.
There was a formal presentation of the books to the Philadelphia Free Library by Small Press Expo Graphic Novel Gift Program Director Catherine Fraas on Saturday, September 9.
The books were selected by the library's collection staff from the offerings of publishers Fantagraphics, Top Shelf, Drawn & Quarterly, Cartoon Books, Adhouse Books and Koyama Press, all of whom support this program.
The artist Kris Mukai designed a special bookplate that has been placed in all of the books to be donated by SPX.