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OK, LET’S DO THIS.  
And let’s talk some numbers…
We’ve got a whirlwind week ahead of us as we prep to receive all your smiling faces at SPX 2012. All of our work over the last year is coming together to produce the two best days of independent comics that you can find anywhere… 
And here’s the thing, everybody…  I have thrown my own personal marker down that I believe we can top 5,000 people at SPX this year. Now, some context.  That is a HUGE number. Enormous. Practically double last year’s show. Totally, completely pie-in-the sky unrealistic, even with the great growth the show has seen over the last couple of years…. Getting 5,000 people to the show means completely blowing the doors off of our most aggressive expectations. Well I should say, sensible expectations. But I am not about being sensible.   I am about you helping us fully and completely obliterate last year’s record turn-out. We can do it. And every single dollar will go to charity.   But there is only one way this happens… We need your help. We can hit this crazy insane goal if you make sure everyone you know that loves comics is coming to the Small Press Expo. Invite your friends, mention us on your blog, or maybe even share a few copies of Theo Ellsworth’s awesome flyer. The beautiful thing about SPX is that it is not our show, it is YOUR show.  And you guys are hereby deputized to spread the gospel. I’ll see you and 4,999 of your friends September 15th-16th at SPX!
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OK, LET’S DO THIS.

And let’s talk some numbers…

We’ve got a whirlwind week ahead of us as we prep to receive all your smiling faces at SPX 2012. All of our work over the last year is coming together to produce the two best days of independent comics that you can find anywhere…

And here’s the thing, everybody… I have thrown my own personal marker down that I believe we can top 5,000 people at SPX this year.

Now, some context.

That is a HUGE number. Enormous. Practically double last year’s show. Totally, completely pie-in-the sky unrealistic, even with the great growth the show has seen over the last couple of years….

Getting 5,000 people to the show means completely blowing the doors off of our most aggressive expectations. Well I should say, sensible expectations.

But I am not about being sensible.

I am about you helping us fully and completely obliterate last year’s record turn-out. We can do it. And every single dollar will go to charity.

But there is only one way this happens… We need your help.

We can hit this crazy insane goal if you make sure everyone you know that loves comics is coming to the Small Press Expo.

Invite your friends, mention us on your blog, or maybe even share a few copies of Theo Ellsworth’s awesome flyer.

The beautiful thing about SPX is that it is not our show, it is YOUR show. And you guys are hereby deputized to spread the gospel.

I’ll see you and 4,999 of your friends September 15th-16th at SPX!

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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

>> Travel Info

>> Attending Artists

>> Animation Showcase

>> Ignatz Awards





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