Come see Heidi Macdonald, Goddess of The Beat, at the Library of Congress!!

Heidi will be giving a talk at the Library of Congress titled After Watchmen and Maus: Exploring the Graphic Novel. It will be held Noon, September 13 in the Madison Building of the Library of Congress (Capitol South Metro stop).

She was kind enough to donate her entire mini-comics collection to the SPX Collection at the Library of Congress. I cannot begin to list the indie comics treasures that will now be preserved until the Sun goes supernova.

Here is Heidi next to her treasure trove of minis in the back my car. 

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And here are all those historical goodies being delivered to Georgia Higley and Megan Halsband of the Serials Division of the Library of Congress.

imageBe sure to come out and hear Heidi, not only because its going to be great, but this talk will NOT be given at SPX.

Oh, and stay tuned for some samples out of her collection, right here at SPX.TUMBLR.COM, your home for the coolest site on indie comics.

C u at SPX,

Warren

“This Year Is Going To Be Totally F***ing Looney Tunes!” - Preparing For SPX 2013 With Executive Director Warren Bernard Real nice interview Warren did with David Dissanayake from Bleeding Cool. Give it a read! Says David, “ “SPX is the San Diego...
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“This Year Is Going To Be Totally F***ing Looney Tunes!” - Preparing For SPX 2013 With Executive Director Warren Bernard

Real nice interview Warren did with David Dissanayake from Bleeding Cool. Give it a read!

Says David,

“SPX is the San Diego Comic-Con of small and indie publishers; the big daddy expo of alternative comics.”

Hey, we’ll take it!  And you shouldn’t miss it!

ONE WEEK!

Via Bleeding Cool

Source: bleedingcool.com

SPX Donates Graphic Novels to the District of Columbia Public Library

Ok, we had the turnover today of a bunch of really cool books from Adhouse, Koyama Press, Top Shelf, Drawn & Quarterly and Fantagraphics that were chosen by the collections staff at DCPL. Check out this table of goodies:

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They chose 63 different titles, over 250 books in all that were donated by us with mucho support from the publishers

Catherine Fraas and I got to schmooze with the Chief Librarian and her staff, they were ecstatic over the new books they got from publishers they never had ordered books from before.

Here is me yucking it up with Ginnie Cooper, the Chief Librarian, e are both Pogo fans.

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And to show you the level of hipness in their selections, here is Ginnie holding a Michael DeForge book from Koyama Press!!!

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Next year, Catherine will take this over from me. Though indeed I will butt in on the PR shots, of course!!

See you in like 10 days,

Warren

Small Press Expo Announces the DC Public Library as the 2013 Recipient of the SPX Graphic Novel Gift Program

The Small Press Expo (SPX), the preeminent showcase for the exhibition of independent comics, graphic novels, and alternative political cartoons, is pleased to announce that the District of Columbia Public Library (DCPL) is the 2013 recipient of the Small Press Expo Library Gift Program.

This program is an outright gift of graphic novels to the library as selected by the library’s Collections Specialist, who selected 63 titles comprising 251 individual books. These books will be distributed to the Rosedale and William O. Lockridge/Bellevue branches.

Today there was a formal presentation of the books to the the library by Small Press Expo Executive Director Warren Bernard. The event was held at the Rosedale Neighborhood Library.

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Left to right: Elissa Miller - Associate Director Collections, Linnea Hegarty - Executive Director DC Public Library Foundation, Warren Bernard - Executive Director Small Press Expo, Wendy Lukehart - Collections Coordinator, Ginnie Cooper - Chief Librarian DC Public Library

“The library takes pride in offering the books that people want at their library,” said Ginnie Cooper, chief librarian for the DC Public Library. “With the growing popularity of graphic novels, this gift allows District residents the opportunity to discover new titles and characters at their Library.  We cannot thank the Small Book Expo enough for this donation.”

“It is with pleasure that Small Press Expo adds to the graphic novel collection of the DC Public Library,” said Warren Bernard, Executive Director of the Small Press Expo. “We are thrilled at the selections made by their collections staff and we know that the readers will enjoy them. We are especially proud that these books will find their way the readers of all ages who normally would not have a chance to see this great work being done in the graphic novel field.”

The books were selected by the library’s collection staff from the offerings of publishers Fantagraphics, Top Shelf, Drawn & Quarterly, Adhouse Books and Koyama Press, all of whom support this program.

SPX’s Graphic Novel Gift Program is an expansion of the philanthropic and charitable endeavors that are part of its corporate charter, and is in addition to SPX’s annual support to the Comic Book Legal Defense Fund. The targets of this program are public and academic library systems in the Washington, D.C. Metropolitan area as selected by the Small Press Expo.

The goals of this program are:

  • Facilitate the availability of graphic novels to readers of all ages utilizing public and school libraries.
  • Promote learning and literacy through the availability of graphic novels at local libraries.
  • Provide library systems with additional resources by which they can purchase graphic novels and comics.

SPX will be held Saturday, September 14 from 11am-7pm and Sunday, September 15, 12-6pm at The North Bethesda Marriott Convention Center in North Bethesda, Maryland.

Admission is $10 for a single day and $15 for both days.

Small Press Expo Announces Jon McNaught, Ulli Lust and Other International Guests at SPX 2013 SPX is pleased to announce Jon McNaught and Ulli Lust as featured guests to SPX 2013, to be held September 14 and 15. The Small Press Expo is honored to...
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Small Press Expo Announces Jon McNaught, Ulli Lust and Other International Guests at SPX 2013

SPX is pleased to  announce Jon McNaught and Ulli Lust as featured guests to SPX 2013, to be held September 14 and 15. The Small Press Expo is honored to have the first appearance of both of these guests at this years show, as well as a number of other international guests.

Jon and Ulli join previously announced international guests Seth from Canada, Liniers from  Argentina and Rutu Modan from Israel.

This year SPX has the most international creators from the most countries that have ever attended the festival.

Here is the list of international creators, as well as more information on both Jon McNaught and Ulli Lust:

Argentina - Liniers

Australia - Caitlin Major,  Jason Franks, Matt Emery, Matt Hoddy 

Canada - Seth, Michael DeForge, Adriana Blake, Elaine Will, Gibson Twist, Matt Cummings, Ryan Smith

Germany - Ulli Lust

Great Britain - Jon McNaught, Roger Langridge, Nick Abadzis, Joe Decie, Joe List, John Allison, Lizz Lunney, Philippa Rice, Sean Azzopardi, Simon Moreton. Timothy Winchester

Israel - Rutu Modan

Italy - Delebile

Mexico - Mario Gonzales

Netherlands - Margaret de Heer

Jon McNaughtis a printmaker, illustrator, and comics creator, who has won rapid critical acclaim from such comics luminaries as Seth and Chris Ware. Jon has illustrated various articles for such periodicals as the New York Times and the London Review of Books.

His self published comic, Birchfield Close, was discovered by the groundbreaking British publishing house NoBrow, who will be bringing Jon to this years show and published his critically acclaimed Dockwood. Jon has drawn the cover to the SPX 2013 Program Guide, which will be available for free at the SPX registration tables.

Ulli Lust is an internationally renowned cartoonist, illustrator, and publisher making her first appearance at SPX 2013.  This year Fantagraphics Books published her 464-page memoir, Today is the Last Day of the Rest of Your Life, which details the summer of 1984 when she hitchhiked across Italy as a broke punk rocker.

Ms. Lust has been nominated in the Outstanding Artist and Outstanding Graphic Novel categories of the Ignatz Awards this year for Today is the Last Day of the Rest of Your Life. She currently works in Berlin and more information on her can be found at http://www.ullilust.de/.

A complete list of all 657 exhibitors is available at http://www.spxpo.com/exhibitors.

Your mission, DC Metro, should you choose to accept it, is to use and abuse your office copy machine to run off as many of these SPX 2013 flyers as you can possibly get away with (click the pic for a two-sheet). Then, share them far and wide,...
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Your mission, DC Metro, should you choose to accept it, is to use and abuse your office copy machine to run off as many of these SPX 2013 flyers as you can possibly get away with (click the pic for a two-sheet).

Then, share them far and wide, wherever our people congregate!

Send us pics of where you dropped them and we may drop some valuable prizes on you - free posters, totes and passes to the show!

Godspeed,

– MDT

As of this afternoon we’ve added another 30 or so rooms to our block at the Marriott for SPX weekend (spxpo.com/hotel). If you’ve been procrastinating on booking a room now would be a great time to do it. I believe this blows us past 200 rooms, which...
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As of this afternoon we’ve added another 30 or so rooms to our block at the Marriott for SPX weekend (spxpo.com/hotel).  If you’ve been procrastinating on booking a room now would be a great time to do it.  

I believe this blows us past 200 rooms, which is half the place given over to comics madness. Don’t miss it - comics sleep-away camp is calling!

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