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A thing that is happening that you will enjoy.
The Ignatz afterparty is always a good time. Laughter, tears, drink tickets… the chocolate fountain! And last year we took it up a notch by inviting, for your entertainment, the group self-described as “THE GREATEST LIVE ART COMPETITION IN THE KNOWN UNIVERSE: SUPER ART FIGHT!
Since their debut in June 2008, Super Art Fight has performed all across the United States, including appearances at MacWorld and ROFLCon, and their home base in Baltimore, Maryland. Last year they put on a great show for us at SPX and jammed it up with several attending artists.
If you’ve never seen them before, you’ll get a show with a unique sense of humor, whichfeatures some of the fastest working artists in the world of comics today.
For more details on this motley crew of creatives, visit their website at SuperArtFight.com.
Better yet, join us on September 16 at SPX for the show, the Ignatz Awards and the afterparty and catch Super Art Fight live!

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A thing that is happening that you will enjoy.

The Ignatz afterparty is always a good time. Laughter, tears, drink tickets… the chocolate fountain! And last year we took it up a notch by inviting, for your entertainment, the group self-described as “THE GREATEST LIVE ART COMPETITION IN THE KNOWN UNIVERSE: SUPER ART FIGHT!

Since their debut in June 2008, Super Art Fight has performed all across the United States, including appearances at MacWorld and ROFLCon, and their home base in Baltimore, Maryland. Last year they put on a great show for us at SPX and jammed it up with several attending artists.

If you’ve never seen them before, you’ll get a show with a unique sense of humor, which
features some of the fastest working artists in the world of comics today.

For more details on this motley crew of creatives, visit their website at SuperArtFight.com.

Better yet, join us on September 16 at SPX for the show, the Ignatz Awards and the afterparty and catch Super Art Fight live!

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The Small Press Expo is North America's premiere independent cartooning and comic arts festival. SPX brings together more than 4,000 cartoonists and comic arts enthusiasts every fall in Bethesda, Maryland.

Dates & Times:

September 14th and 15th, 2013

Saturday: 11:00 am – 7:00 pm Sunday: 12:00 pm – 6:00 pm

Admission:

One Day Membership: $10 Weekend Membership: $15

Location:

The world class Marriott Bethesda North Hotel & Conference Center
5701 Marinelli Road
North Bethesda, MD 20852

2013 Special Guests

Small Press Expo is pleased to announce Seth, Gary Panter, Lisa Hanawalt, Gene Yang and Frank Santoro as special guests at SPX 2013, to be held Saturday, September 14 and Sunday, September 15. We are honored that both Seth and Gary Panter will be making their first SPX appearances at this year’s show.

Seth

Creator and advocate of a Canadian design aesthetic, Seth is best known to the comics world as the artist/writer of the long running Palookaville comic, as well as his graphic novels Wimbledon Green and George Sprott (1895-1975), which was originally serialized in the New York Times. He is also known for his book design work for such series as The Complete Peanuts, Nancy and Melvin Monster, in addition to The Portable Dorothy Parker.

Gary Panter

Painter, poster artist, cartoonist, commercial artist, and set designer, polymath Gary Panter has covered the gamut. Best known to the comics world for his long running, post-apocalyptic Jimbo series as well as his graphic novel Dal Tokyo, he also won an Emmy Award for his work on Pee-Wee’s Playhouse, and the Chrysler Award for his influence in graphic design.

Lisa Hanawalt

Lisa Hanawalt has vaulted from her Ignatz Award winning mini-comics Stay Away From Other People and I Want You, to illustrating for such periodicals as the New York Times Op-Ed page, Vanity Fair, Glamour, Bloomberg Business Week, as well as McSweeney’s and The Believer. Her latest book is My Dirty Dumb Eyes, a compendium of her work being published this May by Drawn & Quarterly.

Gene Yang

Gene Yang, creator behind the award winning American Born Chinese, is returning to the graphic novel field with a two volume set, Boxers & Saints, to be released this fall by First Second Books. Set in China in 1900, it tells the story of the Boxer rebellion and how the teemagers of the day used their “super heroes” from Chinese opera as inspirations to fight against foreign invaders.

Frank Santoro

Frank Santoro is back with his latest work, Pompei, published by Picturebox. His Storeyville was one of the most influential comics of the 1990’s, leading to its reprinting in book form in 2007. He now runs the Santoro Correspondence Course For Comic Book Makers, which carries on the tradition of correspondence courses for cartoonists that stretches back over century, now in an online form utilizing the latest in collaborative technology.

Access:

The hotel is directly across the street from the White Flint metro station on the Red Line.

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For the full list of attending artists and guests for SPX 2013, see here!

SPX 2013 Info

>> The Mothership

>> Attending Artists

>> Animation Showcase

>> Ignatz Awards

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