Scenes from the Literary Death Match…
The American Association of Editorial Cartoonists held their annual conference in DC the same weekend as SPX. And we were quite glad about it. Folks like Keith Knight, Matt Bors, Jen Sorenson and Francoise Mouly did double duty over the weekend at both events.
If you missed “Damn Cartoonists,” check out this excellent recap of their “Literary Death Match” involving Jen, Keef and some other highly notable folks!
Source: literarydeathmatch.com
Jaime and Gilbert Hernandez
SATURDAY SEPTEMBER 15
12:30PM-1:30PM Q&A in the White Oak Room
2:30PM-3:30PM Q&A in the White Oak Room
4:30PM-6:30PM Signing at the Fantagraphics booth
SUNDAY SEPTEMBER 16
1:00PM-2:00PM Signing at the Fantagraphics booth
2:30PM-3:30PM Panel in the White Oak Room
5:00PM-6:00PM Sign at the Fantagraphics booth
Chris Ware
SATURDAY SEPTEMBER 15
Noon-1PM Panel in White Flint Auditorium
1:00PM-2:30PM Signing at the SPX table
3:30PM-4:30PM Signing at the D&Q booth
4:45PM-5:45PM Signing at the SPX Signing table
SUNDAY SEPTEMBER 16
12:15-1:15PM Signing at the D&Q booth
1:30PM-2:30PM Q&A in the White Oak Room
3:00PM-4:30PM Signing at the SPX table
Dan Clowes
SATURDAY SEPTEMBER 15
Noon-1PM Panel in White Flint Auditorium
1:00PM-2:00PM Sign at the Fantagraphics booth
3:00PM-4:15PM Sign at the SPX Signing table
4:30PM-5:30PM Panel in White Oak Room
SUNDAY SEPTEMBER 16
12:30PM-1:30PM Signing at the SPX table
2:30PM-3:30PM Panel White Oak Room
3:45PM-4:45PM Signing at the D&Q booth
Francoise Mouly
SATURDAY SEPTEMBER 15
1:30PM-2:30PM Panel in the White Oak Room
2:45PM-3:45PM Signing at the CBLDF Table
5:00PM-6:00PM Panel in the White Flint Auditorium
SUNDAY SEPTEMBER 16
1:00PM-1:30PM Signing at the CBLDF Table
Adrian Tomine
SATURDAY SEPTEMBER 15
11:30PM-12:30PM Signing at the D+Q booth
1:30PM-3:30PM Signing at the D+Q booth
SUNDAY SEPTEMBER 16
12:15PM-1:15PM Signing at theD+Q booth
2:30PM-3:30PM Panel in the White Oak Room
3:30PM-4:30PM Signing at the D+Q booth
4:30PM-5:30PM Panel in the White Oak Room
SPX 2012 DAY 1 PRIMER
Here’s a quick rundown for first-time attendees!
GETTING TO SPX
First off, you’re coming via plane, train or automobile to the Bethesda North Marriott on Marinelli Road, right off of Rockville Pike. White Flint Metro is an easy walk and you can also find free parking at the metro station over the weekend. Hotel parking is plentiful but will set you back cash better spent on comics! Here’s a handy map:
GETTING IN THE DOOR
The show opens at 11AM on Saturday and there are typically long lines at the beginning of the day. We’ll have extra cash registers and several iPads taking credit cards over and above what we had last year so hopefully things will roll smoothly and we can get everyone into the hall with a minimum of fuss!
Admission is $10 for one day, $15 for the weekend.
PROGRAMMING
Programming starts at 11:30 and there are two tracks running simultaneously staggered on the half hour. This means that you won’t be able to catch everything, but we’re aiming to have most sessions available on video following the event.
MEETING THE ARTISTS
We know you’ll have artists in mind that you want to see and maybe get something signed. Most folks are very accessible at their tables. For special guests, a schedule for all signings will be posted outside the hall and (hopefully) online in advance of the event.
FREEBIES & TRADES
There is always a plentiful freebie table out in front of the hall. Feel free to bring and take and share what you find there. Likewise many artists in attendance may be open to trade with you.
People are definitely looking to make money at SPX - books are expensive to produce but there will always be room for sharing your work and having that returned in kind. We’re quite conscious and proud of this thin line between our exhibitors and attendees Definitely a key part of SPX culture!
IGNATZ BALLOTING
You have a solemn duty at SPX to submit a ballot for our Ignatz Awards which celebrate excellence in independent comics. Ballots will be available at the front desk and at the SPX table inside the show hall. Those that vote get a cool little something, new for this year!
LUNCH
By mid-day on Saturday the show floor will be crazy crowded! But you’ll also have an armload of books and an appetite. One of the big questions everyone has is, where can I get something to eat. Well, thanks to our buddy R.M. Rhodes (tables H1-H2) , we’ve got that covered. He pulled together another handy map covering SPX-area vittles:
RECHARGING YOUR WALLET
Over the past several years we’ve seen more and more issues with keeping the cash flowing at the hotel cash machine and other nearby ATMS (there is a bank out the back of the hotel and a 7-11 off to the right in the front).
This year we’ve taken matters into our own hands and SPX is supplying an additional ATM right on the show floor. We’re also taking credit cards for SPX-related merch and admission so that should reserve more of your cash for comics!
DID YOU MENTION SPX MERCH?
Why yes I did! We’ll have a cool selection of stuff at the SPX table including copies of the SPX 2012 Chris Ware poster that you may have seen all over the web, several copies of the Womanthology package set and our own limited edition print sets (details forthcoming on that later in the week). Definitely swing by the table and check this stuff out!
IGNATZ AWARDS
On Saturday, SPX runs until 7PM at which point we’ll promptly break down the hall and close the doors. Generally folks disperse for dinner in the vicinity of the hotel and then reconvene for the Ignatz Awards, hosted this year by Jerzy Drozd.
We’ve moved the Ignatz to a larger room but it will still probably be a packed house with overflow into the hallway. Luckily food and drink will be in full effect, so the pre-party should blend seamlessly into the afterparty with some clapping in between.
All are welcome to attend both events! We’ve got Super Art Fight providing post-Ignatz entertainment in the amphitheater. Should be a pretty great time all around!
Next up, Sunday!
At exactly this moment exactly one month from now the SPX show floor opens!
It will look something like this, just bigger, faster and more intense.
To the right: The Hernandez Brothers
To the left: Dan Clowes
Behind you: Chris Ware
Straight ahead: Francoise Mouly
Ready to drop like a spider from the ceiling: Michael Deforge
Tunneling beneath your very feet: Adrian Tomine
You will be surrounded by multitudes. Surrender is your only option.
Plan accordingly!
Here is Theo Ellsworth’s amazing, incredible, fantastic and otherwise totally rad design for the SPX 2012 flyer. It will get into stores and coffee shops and wherever else we can put them in the next few weeks. Plus, he is giving us the hand drawn original for our archives at the Library of Congress. OMG!!!!!
Theo will also be doing a signed and numbered print of the flyer that will be included in a special limited edition set of all of the SPX art created for this years show (posters, program guide cover, etc. etc.). More info on that as we get closer to SPX.
Oh, and stay tuned, this channel for the SPX 2012 posters, coming soon……..
Drop a follow on this…
New Yorker art editor Françoise Mouly has a new book just out detailing all the New Yorker covers that never made it to news stands.
Her Blown Covers tumblr, which kicked off in February, offers occasional excerpts from the book (such as the above cover from SPX 2012 special guest, Chris Ware) along with a super-fine array of featured artists and some behind the scenes goodness from Mouly and Nadja Spiegelman.
“Since I draw more or less like a robot, it’s good to have something human to inspire me every once in a while. While I dutifully admire the manly, punchy gags of Peter Arno and Charles Addams, the “old school” New Yorker cover artists I think most about are actually all women. Ilonka Karasz’s bucolic diorama-like vistas and the unapologetic warm sentiment of Edna Eicke stir up fond memories of childhood with a tactile power truly unusual for drawings intended only for print.” — Chris Ware, on the New Yorker covers that inspire him.
See the covers in question on the New Yorker’s culture desk blog
(via blowncovers-blog)
Look at us young things! I believe we still have that t-shirt somewhere…
(via comixace)
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