PR: SPX is FINALLY HERE -- And here's EVERYTHING you need to know!

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Details on Special Guests, Exhibitors, Debut Books, Programming -- and More.

JUST ONE MORE WEEK AND YOU'LL BE DRINKING DEEP FROM THE INDIE COMICS FIREHOSE SPX 2018 IS HERE! CLICK HERE FOR YOUR ADVANCE TICKETS SPX 2018 TAKES PLACE September 15th - 16th Bethesda North Marriott Hotel & Conference Center Hours Saturday: 11AM-7PM Sunday: Noon to 6PM Admission $15 Saturday | $10 Sunday $20 Weekend Pass ALREADY GOT YOUR SPX TIX? HERE'S EVERYTHING ELSE YOU NEED TO KNOW SPX 2018 Special Guests The stellar SPX 2018 guest list includes some of the best and brightest in comics: REBECCA SUGAR, BEN PASSMORE, JASON LUTES, CAROLYN NOWAK, CAROL TYLER, NATE POWELL, ROZ CHAST, DERF, ELLEN FORNEY, RON WIMBERLY, ANDERS NILSEN, RINA AYUYANG, LAWRENCE LINDELL, JULES FEIFFER, AMINDER DHALIWAL, NGOZI UKAZU, MOLLY OSTERTAG, DAVID SMALL, DASH SHAW, JULIE DOUCET, EMMA RÍOS, LIV STRÖMQUIST, JÉRÉMIE ROYER, FIONA SMYTH and more! LEARN MORE Ignatz Award Nominees The Ignatz Award, named after George Herriman's brick-wielding mouse from his long running comic strip Krazy Kat, is the festival prize of the Small Press Expo, with the votes cast for the awards by the attendees during SPX.  The nominees for the ballot were determined by a panel of five of the best of today's comic artists, Mita Mahato, Carolyn Nowak, Kevin Czap, Leila Abdelrazaq, and Taneka Stotts. Congratulations to all our nominees! LEARN MORE Exhibiting Creators & Publishers SPX will feature over 650 creators and 280 exhibitor tables of independent and small press comics. Fortune favors the prepared! So check out the BIG LIST to start planning your route around the biggest little exhibition hall in comics. LEARN MORE ‌ SPX 2018 Debut Books Small Press Expo is thrilled to announce that nearly 200 books and comics will debut at the 2018 festival. You can see a few highlights here. A complete list of debuts, including cover images and publishing information, can be found on the SPX web site.  LEARN MORE ‌ Programming Schedule The SPX 2018 Schedule features 22 sessions with two simultaneous tracks on both Saturday and Sunday. SPX is proud to have comiXology Originals as the sole sponsor for the Programming Schedule at SPX 2018 and appreciates it's long-running support of the show.  LEARN MORE ‌ Comic Book Workshops From comics to Kickstarters to clay sculpture, come learn from some of the best in the business in our series of hand-on workshops run by the fine folks from Comics Workbook. SPX is again proud to have our friends at comiXology Originals as the sole sponsor for our Comic Book Workshops at SPX 2018! LEARN MORE ‌ SPECIAL EVENTS AT & AROUND SPX 2018 The Library of Congress Lecture On FRIDAY Sept 14, SPX Special Guest Carol Tyler will discuss her creative life in "Comics to a 'T': The Triumphs and Troubles of Telling the Tyler Story." Join us for an engaging talk by one of the comics industry's finest!  This is the 6th annual SPX festival program sponsored by the Serial & Government Publications Division.  Friday, September 14th, 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm  Madison Building, Library of Congress West Dining Room, 6th Floor Signings at Politics & Prose Don't Miss these signings at Politics & Prose with our SPX 2018 Special Guests! TUESDAY SEPT 11th David Small signing Home After Dark Time: 7PM Place: Politics & Prose 1270 5th St NE, Washington, DC 20002 Metro: NoMa-Gallaudet FRIDAY SEPT 14th Jules Feiffer signing, The Ghost Script Time: 4PM Place: Politics & Prose 5015 Connecticut Ave NW, Washington, DC 20008 Metro: Tenleytown Beatles Sing Along! Joins us on SATURDAY in the Foyer of Grand Ballroom, just outside the SPX exhibition hall for a Beatles Sing-Along. You'll be led by special guest Carol Tyler,in the event, inspired by her recent work "Fab4 Mania, A Beatles Obsession and the Concert of a Lifetime" Time: 4:30 PM - 5:30 PM, Saturday Place: Foyer of Grand Ballroom   The Ignatz Awards Ceremony Join us all for the Ignatz Awards CEREMONY and GALA RECEPTION following the close of the show on Saturday. Come early because the room will be crowded. This year's ceremony will be hosted by special guest Carol Tyler. Time:  9:30PM Place: White Oak Room Dress: FANCY as you want to be The Sunday Morning Meet-Up Sunday morning brings our traditional pre-show morning MEET-UP! Join us for breakfast nosh and good hangs away from the hustle and bustle of the show floor. We'll have stickers, prints, buttons and other goodies that you can only get at the meet-up! Want to form up your squad at the show? The Meet-Up is the time and the place! Time: 10:30AM-Noon Place: Outside the White Flint Auditorium Planning Your Trip to SPX SPX takes place at the Bethesda North Marriott Hotel & Conference Center convenient to Washington, DC the surrounding region. The hotel is across the street from the White Flint Metro Station, which offers additional parking. There is also is a new parking garage right behind the hotel for $2.50/hour or $30/day. Hotel guests can park in the hotel lot at the rate of $20/day. NOTE: DC Metro has projected some track work on SPX weekend that may effect the White Flint Metro station. We recommend you check the status with WMTA before heading out! LEARN MORE THE SPX CONDUCT POLICY Nothing about SPX works if we don't work together. This community, of creators, publishers, fans and friends makes all the magic possible. Help us keep SPX the special place that you've made it by reviewing and abiding by the SPX Conduct Policy. Nothing it contains should surprise you. In fact, we hope it meets every expectation you'd have for yourself and others. All Attendees, Exhibitors, Sponsors, Associates, Guests and Volunteers are subject to the Conduct Policy. This policy as well as incident reporting forms and SPX contact information are available via our website as well as in hard copy at any registration booth during the festival.  About the Small Press Expo 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 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. ‌ ‌ ‌ Small Press Expo P.O. Box 5704 Bethesda, Maryland 20824 www.smallpressexpo.com Email: press@smallpressexpo.com STAY CONNECTED ‌ ‌ ‌

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Comic Riffs on controversy over Mark Knight's tennis cartoon in Australian newspaper

An Australian artist's racist Serena Williams cartoon receives swift and international blowback

By Michael Cavna

Washington Post Comic Riffs blog September 10, 2018

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/comic-riffs/wp/2018/09/10/an-australian-artists-racist-serena-williams-cartoon-receives-swift-and-international-blowback/

New Ants comic from Julian Lytle available now

From Julian Lytle:

"I put out a new Ants comic, none of it was posted on the webcomic site prior. Here's the gumroad link. https://gum.co/ants3 . I'll have some print copies at SPX and NYCC."

NPR talks to Edgardo Miranda-Rodriguez about La Borinqueña

Edgardo Miranda-Rodriguez On Creating A Superhero For Puerto Rico

ADRIAN BARTOS (aka  Stretch Armstrong  and ROBERT GARCIA (aka Bobbito Garci)

What's Good with Stretch & Bobbito

season 2, episode 4

September 5, 2018

https://www.npr.org/2018/08/30/643326450/edgardo-miranda-rodriguez-on-creating-a-superhero-for-puerto-rico

https://www.npr.org/templates/transcript/transcript.php?storyId=643326450

Graphic novelist Edgardo Miranda-Rodriguez is the creator of La Borinqueña, the superheroine and the comic book that bears her name.

Courtesy of the artist

City Paper looks back on DC's real 1984 vs. Wonder Woman's

I was a freshman in college at GWU at the time - this brings back memories. It would have been nice to see some of Robbie Conal's anti-White House posters show up.

Wonder Woman's Version of 1984 D.C. Versus the Real Thing [in print as Wonder Years]

Wherever the crew went this summer, the ghosts of 1984 D.C. were present.

Michon Boston

Washington City Paper September 7, 2018 , p. 18-19

online at https://www.washingtoncitypaper.com/arts/film-tv/article/21021235/wonder-woman-1984-tries-to-recreate-dc-in-the-80s-heres-what-it-was-actually-like

Silver Spring publisher Lost Art Books collects Mitzi McCoy comic

Mitzi McCoy Comic Strip Gets Collected Edition

Scoop September 7 2018

http://scoop.previewsworld.com/Home/4/1/73/1012?ArticleID=218237

Oct 1: Garry Trudeau at Politics and Prose

Garry Trudeau - #sad!: Doonesbury in the Time of Trump

Monday, October 1, 2018 - 7 p.m. to 8 p.m.

 https://www.politics-prose.com/event/book/garry-trudeau-sad-doonesbury-in-time-of-trump

 

This event is free to attend with no reservation required. Seating is available on a first come, first served basis.
Click here for more information.

5015 Connecticut Ave NW   Washington   DC    20008

Sept 14: Carol Tyler at Library of Congress

The Triumphs and Troubles of Telling the Tyler Story

Carol Tyler will discuss her creative life in Comics to a 'T': The Triumphs and Troubles of Telling the Tyler Story. A pioneer of the "autobiographical" comics genre, she uses her own experience to tackle the complex issues of the human experience. With grace, humor, and style, her work has helped shape the direction of comics. This includes "The Hannah Story," a powerful story about loss, which was named one of the Top 100 Cartoons of the 20th Century. Carol was recently given the title 'Master Cartoonist' by CXC, at the Billy Ireland Cartoon Art Museum in Columbus.

Tyler's 2015 book Soldier's Heart, about her Dad's trauma from WWII and its impact on her family, received a Gold Medal Award from the Society of Illustrators, the Cartoonist Studio Prize from Slate Book Review, eleven Eisner Award nominations, two Ignatz Award nominations, and was twice a finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize. Carol's latest book, Fab4Mania, details her personal obsession with the Beatles and her concert-going experience as told from her thirteen-year-old self's point of view.

Join us for an engaging talk by one of the comics industry's finest!

This is the 6th annual SPX festival program sponsored by the Serial & Government Publications Division.

Friday, September 14th, 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm
West Dining Room, 6th Floor, Madison Building
Library of Congress

Sponsored by the Serial and Government Publications Division
For further information contact: Georgia Higley ghig@loc.gov or 202-707-2963
Please request ADA accommodations five days in advance at (202) 707-6362 or ada@loc.gov

Rosarium Publishing at Small Press Expo

SPX (September 15th-16th) attendees include

Bizhan Khodabandeh at the DC Comic Conspiracy G8-10

Marguerite Dabaie

Whit Taylor

 Also attending will be Rosarium Head Bill Campbell and Marketing Manager Melissa Riggio!