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Quite a year book photo.  And dig Chester’s crazy hair!
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Cartoonists! Mrs. David Boswell with Chester Brown, Jaime Hernandez, Dan Clowes, Coco Shinomiya, Gilbert Hernandez, David Boswell. Harvey Awards, Dallas, Texas. 15 July 1990. by daveeboz on Flickr.
Photo by David Boswell [self-timer].
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Quite a year book photo.  And dig Chester’s crazy hair!

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Cartoonists! Mrs. David Boswell with Chester Brown, Jaime Hernandez, Dan Clowes, Coco Shinomiya, Gilbert Hernandez, David Boswell. Harvey Awards, Dallas, Texas. 15 July 1990. by daveeboz on Flickr.

Photo by David Boswell [self-timer].

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Chester Brown Interview with Fanny Kiefer
It’s no secret that I’m a huge Chester Brown fan. I only recently came across his work, the first book of his that I read being Paying For It. Brown’s extreme self-awareness and unwavering critical analysis of his own thought patterns is so refreshing I’m almost enamoured instantly. Since Paying For It, I’ve been ingesting his earlier publications at a steady pace. Thankfully I still have more to read. I’ll be so disappointed once I’ve finished them all. 

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just read this….

Better yet, come see Chester Brown at the Small Press Expo in (CRIKEY!!!) two weeks!

September 10th & 11th @ the Marriott Conference Center in Bethesda, MD.

SPX is the biggest and best independent comics show of the year, featuring hundreds of cartoonists including special guests: Craig Thompson, Kate Beaton, Jim Woodring, Anne Telnaes, Matthew Thurber, Jim Rugg, Johnny Ryan, Diane Noomin and more!

Seriously, make your plans.

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Thanks to Aleshia for buying it for me and to Grimmertown for selling it to her over at the D & Q Store…..

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More Chester Brown… Great review.
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Louis Riel by Chester Brown
How on Earth could a story about the founding of the province of Manitoba in Canada be even remotely interesting?  Seriously— It plays the role of headpiece to Minnesota, America’s most boring state.  And it’s in Canada, the Mexico of the North Pole!  And yet, this isn’t the first wildly fascinating piece of  semi-nonfiction I’ve encountered regarding the region.  The first is the Guy Maddin movie My Winnipeg, which falsely but amusingly claims that the eponymous provincial city is the sleepwalking capital of the world, and that buffalo are attracted to the neighboring Red River by powerful underground magnets, as well as a host of other “wish-it-were-really-true”s.  It is, by the way, one of my favorite movies.  Winnipeg, Manitoba is also the setting of Maddin’s The Saddest Music in the World, another favorite of mine.  But how could non-fiction about anything that happened before 1900—especially if it takes place in Central Canada—not be excruciatingly boring?
One: It has to look like a Tin-Tin comic.  Brown explicitly states in his notes that Herge wasn’t an influence on his layout and style for his book.  He instead cites Harold Gray, whose work I am infinitely less familiar with.
Two: Brown cites a different historical document for every panel on every page of this book.  It sounds excessive, but sometimes it’s reassuring to know the dialogue from a work of historical fiction is pulled directly from a court document or surveying bill or whatever else Brown culled from.  The research on this book must have taken years.  And this stuff is really interesting!  Who knew that Canada’s history was so political?
Three:  Brown is very, very good.  If I Never Liked You is light salad, then this book is Porterhouse Steak.  It took me multiple sittings to finish, it challenged and enlightened me, and I can safely say that it is one of the best comic books I have ever read.  Move over, Sandman, Vol. 4: Seasons of Mist!  You’ve got company.
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More Chester Brown… Great review.

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Louis Riel by Chester Brown

How on Earth could a story about the founding of the province of Manitoba in Canada be even remotely interesting?  Seriously— It plays the role of headpiece to Minnesota, America’s most boring state.  And it’s in Canada, the Mexico of the North Pole!  And yet, this isn’t the first wildly fascinating piece of  semi-nonfiction I’ve encountered regarding the region.  The first is the Guy Maddin movie My Winnipeg, which falsely but amusingly claims that the eponymous provincial city is the sleepwalking capital of the world, and that buffalo are attracted to the neighboring Red River by powerful underground magnets, as well as a host of other “wish-it-were-really-true”s.  It is, by the way, one of my favorite movies.  Winnipeg, Manitoba is also the setting of Maddin’s The Saddest Music in the World, another favorite of mine.  But how could non-fiction about anything that happened before 1900—especially if it takes place in Central Canada—not be excruciatingly boring?

One: It has to look like a Tin-Tin comic.  Brown explicitly states in his notes that Herge wasn’t an influence on his layout and style for his book.  He instead cites Harold Gray, whose work I am infinitely less familiar with.

Two: Brown cites a different historical document for every panel on every page of this book.  It sounds excessive, but sometimes it’s reassuring to know the dialogue from a work of historical fiction is pulled directly from a court document or surveying bill or whatever else Brown culled from.  The research on this book must have taken years.  And this stuff is really interesting!  Who knew that Canada’s history was so political?

Three:  Brown is very, very good.  If I Never Liked You is light salad, then this book is Porterhouse Steak.  It took me multiple sittings to finish, it challenged and enlightened me, and I can safely say that it is one of the best comic books I have ever read.  Move over, Sandman, Vol. 4: Seasons of Mist!  You’ve got company.

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Chester Brown’s new book, Paying for It has incited no small amount of controversy

The Beat, Chester Brown

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Brown sees himself not as a sexual outlaw but as a conscientious objector.

Myself I do not frequent prostitutes because of my deep moral conviction that it costs too much.

R. Fiore on Chester Brown’s Paying For It

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Guests, Guests and More Guests…

IN addition to the previously announced Roz Chast, Ann Telnaes, Jim Woodring and Jim Rugg SPX would like to officially welcome the following guests for the 2011 show:

Craig Thompson- His new book Habibi will be out on September 20, his first in like 6 years. Has not been to an SPX in like this century, so glad he could make it!!

Diane Noomin- One of the original women cartoonists from the Underground comix days. Her new book, Glitz-2-Go is being published by Fantagraphics will be out in time for the show.

Chester Brown- I loved Louis Riel and cannot wait to see Paying For It. But as it is with Mr. Thompson, he has not been to SPX in a long time and glad he is coming back.

Johnny Ryan - Mr. Ryan has not been with us at SPX since the late 20th Century and he’ll have another Angry Youth compendeum out in time for this years show.

Matthew Thurber - We’re delighted to have Matthew doing the art for our badges this year.  Be sure to stop by the Picturebox table to get him to autograph his 1-800-MICE comics.

Jay Stephens - The first Emmy Award winner to appear as a guest at SPX as far as we know. He has an anthology of his Oddville comics on tap that will be at this years show.

Is that stacked… or what?

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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!


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>> Animation Showcase

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