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LET’S TALK IGNATZ AWARDS!
For folks that aren’t familiar (and we’re hoping to see many new faces at this year’s show) the Ignatz Awards are SPX’s very own prize for excellence in independent comics.
The award is pretty unique in that only attendees of the SPX festival get the opportunity to vote for the recipients. I will give you a moment to study the most excellent 2012 nominations.
I mentioned a few days ago that we asked the winner of the previous year’s Promising New Talent Ignatz award winner to draw a version of the famous brick-throwing mouse for this year’s event. We are going to multiply that awesome by buttons and balloons!
HOW TO FIND IGNATZ NOMINATED ARTISTS
We’ve added a little spice to the nominations and voting this year.  All the nominated artists will have these swank silver balloons at their table so you can zero in on some of the absolute best stuff on offer at SPX.
I cannot contain my excitement about the friggin’ balloons. 
HOW DO I CAST MY VOTE
As you enter the show you will be provided a ballot. YOU ARE SWORN AND HONOR BOUND TO COMPLETE THIS SACRED TASK. Consider it practice for November. You can drop completed ballots in one of the boxes designated for this task (I might even be holding it). 
DO I GET A PRIZE?
Aside from fulfilling your civic duty, when you do, we’ll hand you one of these “I Voted” buttons featuring Darryl Ayo’s version of Ignatz. No other way, place or time to get’em!
SO HOW DO I KNOW WHO WON?
Join us for the Ignatz Awards at 9:30 PM on Saturday night. The event will be held in the White Oak Room downstairs at the hotel. We’ve got Jerzy Drozd hosting and a bevy of celebrity award presenters and our FIRST EVER RED CARPET WALK.  
Every good awards show deserves the red carpet treatment and the Ignatz Awards are no exception. Join Shannon and Stacy, the “Joan and Melissa” of the indie comics set, on the red carpet before the Ignatz Awards. They will be talking to the hoi polloi of the Small Press Expo on their way into the White Oak Auditorium before the show.
The deservedly legendary chocolate fountain after party follows featuring the win-lose-or-fatality artistic stylings of SUPER ART FIGHT!
It is going to be a thing!
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LET’S TALK IGNATZ AWARDS!

For folks that aren’t familiar (and we’re hoping to see many new faces at this year’s show) the Ignatz Awards are SPX’s very own prize for excellence in independent comics.

The award is pretty unique in that only attendees of the SPX festival get the opportunity to vote for the recipients. I will give you a moment to study the most excellent 2012 nominations.

I mentioned a few days ago that we asked the winner of the previous year’s Promising New Talent Ignatz award winner to draw a version of the famous brick-throwing mouse for this year’s event. We are going to multiply that awesome by buttons and balloons!

HOW TO FIND IGNATZ NOMINATED ARTISTS

We’ve added a little spice to the nominations and voting this year.  All the nominated artists will have these swank silver balloons at their table so you can zero in on some of the absolute best stuff on offer at SPX.

I cannot contain my excitement about the friggin’ balloons. 

HOW DO I CAST MY VOTE

As you enter the show you will be provided a ballot. YOU ARE SWORN AND HONOR BOUND TO COMPLETE THIS SACRED TASK. Consider it practice for November. You can drop completed ballots in one of the boxes designated for this task (I might even be holding it). 

DO I GET A PRIZE?

Aside from fulfilling your civic duty, when you do, we’ll hand you one of these “I Voted” buttons featuring Darryl Ayo’s version of Ignatz. No other way, place or time to get’em!

SO HOW DO I KNOW WHO WON?

Join us for the Ignatz Awards at 9:30 PM on Saturday night. The event will be held in the White Oak Room downstairs at the hotel. We’ve got Jerzy Drozd hosting and a bevy of celebrity award presenters and our FIRST EVER RED CARPET WALK.  

Every good awards show deserves the red carpet treatment and the Ignatz Awards are no exception. Join Shannon and Stacy, the “Joan and Melissa” of the indie comics set, on the red carpet before the Ignatz Awards. They will be talking to the hoi polloi of the Small Press Expo on their way into the White Oak Auditorium before the show.

The deservedly legendary chocolate fountain after party follows featuring the win-lose-or-fatality artistic stylings of SUPER ART FIGHT!

It is going to be a thing!

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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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