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I am basically not going to shut up about SPX until it happens, because I am SO excited.  This year’s show is going to be amazing. It has SO MANY artists I love! Aaaagh /dies of happiness

Please and thank you! We would love it if you would totally not shut up about SPX for the next three weeks! You telling your friends, dragging them to the show is approximately the greatest thing ever.
Not only are they going to meet some incredibly talented artists and have the best time, but in attending the show, everyone is making a contribution to promote, preserve and protect independent comics.
All of the money generated from SPX goes to our charitable programs.  The money gets used in a few different ways:
1. A donation to the Comic Book Legal Defense Fund. These are the guys that stand up and fight for freedom of speech and creator rights.  In the courtroom, in front of congress and in the media, the work of the CBLDF is critical.
2. The SPX graphic novel gift program.  Inaugurated in 2011, this initiative bestows a gift of graphic novels on a local library system.  We work with independent publishers to obtain books on behalf of the library and gift them to the institution.
3. We preserve the work of independent comic artists in the Small Press Expo collection at the Library of Congress. Focusing on creators attending SPX, this unique collection ensures that the incredible creativity of our community is not lost for future generations.
The more of you that attend, the more SPX can service these causes. So don’t be shy!  You are hereby deputized to bring everyone you know to Bethesda on September 15 and 16 2012 for what looks to be the indie comics show of the year!
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ennuifreezone

I am basically not going to shut up about SPX until it happens, because I am SO excited.  This year’s show is going to be amazing. It has SO MANY artists I love! Aaaagh /dies of happiness

Please and thank you! We would love it if you would totally not shut up about SPX for the next three weeks! You telling your friends, dragging them to the show is approximately the greatest thing ever.

Not only are they going to meet some incredibly talented artists and have the best time, but in attending the show, everyone is making a contribution to promote, preserve and protect independent comics.

All of the money generated from SPX goes to our charitable programs.  The money gets used in a few different ways:

1. A donation to the Comic Book Legal Defense Fund. These are the guys that stand up and fight for freedom of speech and creator rights.  In the courtroom, in front of congress and in the media, the work of the CBLDF is critical.

2. The SPX graphic novel gift program.  Inaugurated in 2011, this initiative bestows a gift of graphic novels on a local library system.  We work with independent publishers to obtain books on behalf of the library and gift them to the institution.

3. We preserve the work of independent comic artists in the Small Press Expo collection at the Library of Congress. Focusing on creators attending SPX, this unique collection ensures that the incredible creativity of our community is not lost for future generations.

The more of you that attend, the more SPX can service these causes. So don’t be shy!  You are hereby deputized to bring everyone you know to Bethesda on September 15 and 16 2012 for what looks to be the indie comics show of the year!

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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.


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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!


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>> Ignatz Awards





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