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START YOUR ENGINES!
It seems that SPX 2012 is only barely behind us but it is already time to start planning for 2013! September will be here before you know it and for potential exhibitors in particular it is time to start revving up your engines!
March 1st is the date to mark on your calendar. That’s the day we’re planning to open our new online exhibitor registration tool. Table and half- table prices will remain the same as the last several years.
For those of you who have never exhibited before, SPX is a first come, first serve festival. Starting (we devoutly hope) on the first of March, you’ll be able to reserve from one-half to multiple tables via spxpo.com
We sell out quickly, so be ready!
More information is forthcoming on the details of the new exhibitor registration set up, but the changes should be minimal. We’re taking the process folks know, improving it and moving it online (CC accepted!). 
Questions? Hit the ask box on Tumblr or catch up with us on Twitter.
We like to think that SPX is the absolute best independent comics, cartooning and graphics arts festival in the country. Our small group of dedicated volunteers works extremely hard to live up to this standard.
2012 was a banner year for us with an historic lineup of guests, which had more than one grizzled festival veteran calling it the best SPX - maybe even the best comics festival - of all time.
We fully blush, and offer an enormous thank you to everyone who made last year’s show such a success! 
In attending, exhibiting or volunteering at SPX 2012 you helped raise $10,000 for the Comic Book Legal Defense Fund, put hundreds of graphic novels in local libraries via SPX’s graphics novel gift program and ensured the preservation of the work of independent artists for all time via the SPX permanent collection at the Library of Congress.
In other words, you’re totally amazing.
Onward to SPX 2013!
— MDT
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START YOUR ENGINES!

It seems that SPX 2012 is only barely behind us but it is already time to start planning for 2013! September will be here before you know it and for potential exhibitors in particular it is time to start revving up your engines!

March 1st is the date to mark on your calendar. That’s the day we’re planning to open our new online exhibitor registration tool. Table and half- table prices will remain the same as the last several years.

For those of you who have never exhibited before, SPX is a first come, first serve festival. Starting (we devoutly hope) on the first of March, you’ll be able to reserve from one-half to multiple tables via spxpo.com

We sell out quickly, so be ready!

More information is forthcoming on the details of the new exhibitor registration set up, but the changes should be minimal. We’re taking the process folks know, improving it and moving it online (CC accepted!). 

Questions? Hit the ask box on Tumblr or catch up with us on Twitter.

We like to think that SPX is the absolute best independent comics, cartooning and graphics arts festival in the country. Our small group of dedicated volunteers works extremely hard to live up to this standard.

2012 was a banner year for us with an historic lineup of guests, which had more than one grizzled festival veteran calling it the best SPX - maybe even the best comics festival - of all time.

We fully blush, and offer an enormous thank you to everyone who made last year’s show such a success! 

In attending, exhibiting or volunteering at SPX 2012 you helped raise $10,000 for the Comic Book Legal Defense Fund, put hundreds of graphic novels in local libraries via SPX’s graphics novel gift program and ensured the preservation of the work of independent artists for all time via the SPX permanent collection at the Library of Congress.

In other words, you’re totally amazing.

Onward to SPX 2013!

— MDT

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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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