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Small Press Expo 2024 reveals debuting comics!

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Small Press Expo has announced that over 110 books and comics will debut at SPX 2024. The festival takes place on Saturday and Sunday, September 14-15, at the Bethesda North Marriott Hotel & Conference Center and will have over 280 exhibitor tables, 500 creators and publishers, 22 programming panels, and 18 hands-on workshops to introduce attendees to the amazing world of independent and small press comics.

A complete list of of the over 160 books debuting at the show, including cover images and publishing information, can be found on the SPX web site.

SPX 2024 is proud to list a highlighted selection of books debuting this year:

Tender

Tender – Fantagraphics

Not only an SPX debut, but also the graphic novel debut of Beth Hetland!

Carolanne wanted a perfect wedding, a perfect husband, a perfect family. She carefully performs her own roles (gal pal, bestie, girlfriend, wife, and expectant mother) and in trying to enact agency over her life, sacrifices it completely. Her desire to control the uncontrollable ultimately becomes her undoing.

Find Tender and Beth Heltand at table 10B!

Processing: 100 Comics That Got Me Through It

Processing: 100 Comics That Got Me Through It – D&Q

Ignatz award-winning cartoonish Tara Booth debuts her new graphic novel, Processing!

Known for her buzzing colors, delightful patterns, sharp humor, and unflinching vulnerability, Tara Booth does not miss any mark in this exquisitely woven collection of pure and nasty magic. Part advice column and exhibit, exploration of psychic pollution and tranquility, Processing is—quite simply—intrepid: in its honesty; its unapologetic grossness; its unrivaled and frank portrayal of life with a body that bleeds.

You can find Processing at Drawn & Quarterly’s tables, W80-W83!

Boy Island - Silver Sprocket

Boy Island – Silver Sprocket

Leo Fox, a 2024 Ignatz Award nominee, debuts the new graphic novel, Boy Island!

Your name is Lucille. You live on Girl Island, one of two islands created when the world was cleft in twain by an entity bigger and more powerful than you. But you have a secret. Your secret is that despite living on Girl Island, you are a boy. You fear deep down in your insides, that you may have been a boy for a very long time. And so you leave your home and your mother and begin the journey to Boy Island. Although it may be treacherous, it is the only way forward.

Find Boy Island at tables W68-W71!

The Scrapbook of Life and Death

The Scrapbook of Life and Death – Avery Hill Publishing

In The Scrapbook of Life and Death, J. Webster Sharp adapts some of the most bizarre stories from the archives of George Ives’s newspaper clippings. Collected from 1892 through 1949, these cover topics such murder and theories of crime to cricket scores. With often shocking, visceral black and white artwork, the strangeness and eccentricity of the Edwardian era provides a backdrop for Sharp’s own struggles with mental health.

Find The Scrapbook of Life and Death at the Fantagraphics table, W51-W55

Space Junk - Top Shelf

Space Junk – Top Shelf

Faith has a metallic mystery bolted to her head. Hoshi keeps his rage in check with an emotional support chicken. On a dying world where most adults have already left and the remaining kids are training for their turn, these two are starting to wonder: what’s the point? Gradually, a cluster of lonely souls who’ve spent their lives emotionally adrift are pulled into each other’s orbit as they try stay in place in a universe that is moving all too quickly. With Space Junk, the startling imagination of award-winning graphic novelist Julian Hanshaw explores profound questions of past and future, trauma and recovery, staying grounded and taking flight.

Find Space Junk at Top Shelf’s tables, W56-W59!

A Night Ride to the Day

A Night Ride to the Day – Bulgilhan Press

Breeze Hu debuts their first graphic novel, A Night Ride to the Day!

A tired salesman and a grieving girl meet by chance in a desert, each of them lost and alone in their waking dreams. Fate – or something like it – brings them together to navigate the maze-like city of Lynbo and unravel the truth of the past that’s haunting them.

Find A Night Ride to the Day at Bulgilhan Press’s table, H1!

Punk Lab Girl: Burn it Down!

Punk Lab Girl: Burn it Down! – Self-Published

Shannon Spence debuts a new volume in their series, Punk Lab Girl with Punk Lab Girl: Burn It Down!

In a near-future world where bizarre diseases run rampant, desperation lands punk rocker Shelly in an unexpected spot: working as a medical technologist at Care 4 U Labs. Little does she know that this seemingly caring institution harbors secrets darker than Theranos.

Find Punk Labl Girl: Burn It Down! at table D12!

Real Tiny Fairies: The Fairies Go To the Library

Real Tiny Fairies: The Fairies Go To the Library

Up-and-coming creator Robert Jackson debuts his new minicomic, Real Tiny Fairies: The Fairies Go To the Library!

Rachel and Rebecca are fairies and they are 1/2 an inch tall but magic doesn’t exist. Despite that, crazy stuff happens anyway.

In this adventure, the duo go to the library and find out that Sheila the shady librarian keeps breaking into the houses of fairies that borrowed books, hiding the books they borrow, and putting the books where the fairies could find the books at a later date.

Find out more at Robert’s table, F6B!

Small Press Expo Announces Signups for Workshops at SPX 2024

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Due to popular demand, SPX is expanding its workshops to a second room, allowing us to have more workshops as part of the show. There will be 18 workshops over the two days of SPX.

These workshops are free and open to any participants. They’re aimed at a wide variety of ages and skill sets, from kids just starting out to experienced cartoonists looking to sharpen their skills with a master class. In response to last year’s enthusiastic response, the convention will also have two figure drawing workshops featuring model Babs New(d). (18+ only, please.)

Graduates and representatives of the Center For Cartoon Studies (CCS), the Sequential Artists Workshop (SAW), California College of the Arts (CCA), VisArts, and the School of Visual Arts (SVA) will be on hand to lead many of these workshops.

Here are a few highlights of this year’s workshops:

  • Roll The Dice! Comics Storytelling Via D20 with Miss Lasko-Gross
  • Lettering WTF? with Tom Hart
  • Three Is A Magic Number: Make An Experimental Comic with Matt Madden
  • Gag Cartoon Crash Course with Sofia Warren and Hilary Campbell

You can view and sign up for any of the 18 workshops at this year’s show on the SPX web site.

The Small Press Expo announces The Ignatz Archive

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2024 Ignatz Awards

Small Press Expo (SPX) is the preeminent showcase for the exhibition of independent comics, graphic novels, and alternative political cartoons. SPX regularly brings together more than 550 artists and publishers to meet their readers, booksellers, and distributors each year for a two day convention.

The Ignatz Awards are held every year by SPX, with the awards recognizing outstanding achievement in comics and cartooning.

Along with this year’s nominees, SPX has revealed The Ignatz Archive.

This new feature on the SPX web site will be the home for all past Ignatz nominees and winners. The last 4 years of Ignatz Awards are already online. They’ll be continually adding to this valuable piece of indie comics history over time.

The Small Press Expo reveals the 2024 Ignatz Award Nominees

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Small Press Expo 2024

The Small Press Expo (SPX), the preeminent showcase for the exhibition of independent comics, graphic novels and alternative political cartoons, has announced the 2024 nominees for the annual presentation of the Ignatz Awards, a celebration of outstanding achievement in comics and cartooning.

Ignatz Awards nominees are determined by a panel of comics professionals. We are most grateful for the efforts of this year’s team of jurors:

  • Caroline Cash
  • Martha Kuhlman
  • Dawn Bond
  • Lawrence Lindell
  • Kriota Wilberg
  • Emma Jensen

Voting for the Ignatz Awards will be opened to anybody on the SPX email lists and anyone requesting a ballot. There will be no in-person voting at the show, as voting for the prestigious Ignatz Awards is open to all fans of indie comics. 

The Ignatz Awards ceremony will be held at 9:30PM on Saturday September 14 in the White Oak Room of the Bethesda North Marriott Hotel and Conference Center.

Other information about SPX 2024 and the Ignatz Awards, can be found at the Small Press Expo website.

BALLOT & VOTING INFORMATION

  • Voting for the 2024 Ignatz Awards will be by email ballot only, there will be no on-site voting.
  • Ballots will be emailed on Thursday August 15 to everyone on SPX’s email lists.
  • If you wish to vote for the Ignatz Awards and are not on our email lists, signup for a ballot and get added to our email lists at the SPX website.
  • Please check your spam folder if you do not see your ballot.
  • Voting ends on Friday September 13 at 11:00PM (EDT).

2024 IGNATZ NOMINEES

OUTSTANDING ARTIST

  • Flippy, Nate Garcia (Domino Books)
  • Night Fever (from Gladiolus Magazine #1), Robyn Smith (Black Josei) Press
  • Portrait of a Body, Julie Delporte (Drawn & Quarterly)
  • Spiral and Other Stories, Aidan Koch (New York Review Comics)
  • The Great Beyond, Léa Murawiec (Drawn & Quarterly)

OUTSTANDING ANTHOLOGY

  • Let Her Be Evil, Cassandra Jones, ed. (Zoop)
  • Pulping, Jenn Woodall, Jon Iñaki, Jonathan Rotsztain, Mitch Lohmeier and Paterson Hodgson, ed. (Pulping Collective)
  • We Belong, Viktor T. Kerney and William O. Tyler, ed. (Stacked Deck Press)
  • Wheels on the Bus, Lucio Luiz, ed. (Jupati Books)
  • Won’t Back Down: An Anthology of Pro-Choice Comics, Trina Robbins, ed. (Last Gasp)

OUTSTANDING COLLECTION

  • Buzzelli Collected Works Vol. 1: The Labyrinth, Guido Buzzelli, translated by Jamie Richards (Floating World Comics)
  • Complete and Utter Malarkey, November Garcia (Fieldmouse Press)
  • Gender Studies: The Confessions of an Accidental Outlaw, Ajuan Mance (Rosarium Press)
  • Offshore Lightning, Saito Nazuna, translated by Alexa Frank (Drawn & Quarterly)
  • Resenter, Gigi Murakami (Self-Published)

OUTSTANDING COMIC

  • Fielder #2, Kevin Huizenga (Drawn & Quarterly)
  • Follow the Doll Issue 2, Daryl Seitchik (Parsifal Press)
  • My Body Unspooling, Leo Fox (Silver Sprocket)
  • Sunflowers, Keezy Young (Silver Sprocket)
  • The Audra Show #7: The Love Issue, Audra Stang (Self-Published)

OUTSTANDING GRAPHIC NOVEL

  • Optometry, Xiang Yata (Driftwood Press)
  • Roaming, Jillian Tamaki & Mariko Tamaki (Drawn & Quarterly)
  • The Talk, Darrin Bell (Macmillan Publishers)
  • Time Under Tension, M.S. Harkness (Fantagraphics)
  • Unended, Josh Bayer (Uncivilized Books)

OUTSTANDING MINICOMIC

  • Find a Seat, Faye Stacey (Quindrie Press)
  • Hyper Fawnus, Anna Two (Self-Published)
  • Lullaby, Jordan Jeffries (Cosmic Dog House Press)
  • Manga Cube, LEHUO (Self-Published)
  • Pauline Newman, Greer de Maglie (Self-Published)

OUTSTANDING ONLINE COMIC

  • Buuza!!, Shazleen Khan
  • In the Shadow of Giants, Aria Villafranca and Matthew Fisher
  • Marigold, Emily Zilber
  • Rigsby Wi, SE Case
  • The Legend of Mariposa, James Lawrence

OUTSTANDING SERIES

  • CosmoKnights, Hannah Templer (Top Shelf Productions)
  • CRAM, Andrew Alexander, ed. (CRAM Books)
  • Jaywalk, Floyd Tangeman, ed. (Domino Books)
  • Kuš! Baltic Comics Magazine, Various (Kuš)
  • Tongues, Anders Nilsen (Self-Published)

OUTSTANDING STORY

  • “The Happy Art”, Sami Alwani (Pulping Collective)
  • “And When I See You, I’ll Tell You Everything” (from You Are Not a Guest), Leela Corman (Fieldmouse Press)
  • Scorpio Venus Rising #1, Corinne Halbert (Self-Published)
  • The Gift, Jamila Rowser & Sam Wade (Black Josei Press)
  • The Super Hero’s Journey, Patrick McDonnell (Abrams Books)

PROMISING NEW TALENT:

  • 10-10 To The Wind, Cole Degenstein (Fieldmouse Press)
  • Gift Box, Pingnan Lu (Self-Published)
  • Optometry, Xiang Yata (Driftwood Press)
  • Tales of the Orishas, Hugo Canuto (Abrams)
  • The Great Beyond, Léa Murawiec (Drawn & Quarterly)

Small Press Expo announces more special guests

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Small Press Expo has revealed even more Special Guests for SPX 2024. The show takes place on Saturday September 14 and Sunday September 15 with programming and workshops about the amazing world of independent comics and an exhibitor floor with over 500 creators.

Additional Special Guests will be announced over the next few weeks.

Jeffrey Brown

New York Times bestselling author Jeffrey Brown (Darth Vader & Son, Loved and Lost, Jedi Academy) gets back to his autobo roots (sort of?) with a new collection of bizarre statements from and interactions with his youngest son, Simon. 

Kids Are Still Weird, a follow up of sorts to Kids Are Weird (about his older son, Oscar) that will debut at SPX! Come say hi to Jeffrey and get Simon Says, a risograph mini-comic of bonus material free with purchase of the book.

Lonnie Millsap

Special Guest Lonnie Millsap, will be signing copies of his latest book, titled ‘My Owners Were Chewy!’. ‘Chewy’ is a collection of humorous, single paneled cartoons that are laugh out loud funny. Millsap will also be signing prints of his work from the book and prints of his New Yorker cartoons.

Stan Mack

Stan Mack drew a comic strip every week for decades based on what he saw and heard in his native New York City, famously using verbatim dialogue for his graphic dramatizations.

A mixture of humor, spontaneity, serendipity, and weirdness, Mack’s comic strip snapshots caught New Yorkers — whether it is an extortionist calligrapher, a baby evading arrest at her first protest, a stroll up Broadway with a ferret, an evening with a male liberationist, or an unlucky-in-love dolphin trainer — being who they are in all their unguarded and uninhibited glory. He’ll be signing copies of Stan Mack’s Real Life Funnies: The Collected Conceits, Delusions, and Hijinks of New Yorkers from 1974 to 1995 at the Fantagraphics booth!

Laura Pérez

We are thrilled that, thanks to the generosity of Spain Arts & Culture, Laura Pérez is a Special Guest at SPX 2024! She’ll be discussing and signing copies of Ocultos from Fantagraphics, an entrancing collection of graphic short stories explores the occult forces that touch upon our everyday lives.

Celebrated for her previous graphic novel, Totem, Spanish comics artist Laura Pérez presents another entrancing vision of magic and mystery. Artfully rendered in her signature wispy, atmospheric pencil lines punctuated by splashes of color, Ocultos is a spiritual, reflective work that will leave you spellbound.ianate storytelling that draws on stylistic elements found in illuminated manuscripts. A poetic and evocative exploration of destiny and survival.

Chris Gooch

Chris Gooch will be traveling from Melbourne, Australia to promote his recent graphic novel In Utero from Top Shelf. He will also be signing his previous three books with Top Shelf, Bottled (2017), Deep Breaths (2019) and Under-Earth (2020). 

‘In Utero’ follows twelve years after a disastrous explosion, young Hailey is dropped off by her mum at a holiday camp in a dilapidated shopping mall. Alienated from the other kids, she connects with an eerie older teen named Jen… but soon dark horrors awaken, and the two new friends are caught up in a cataclysmic battle between two terrifying creatures who have been lying dormant all this time.

One of Australia’s most acclaimed young graphic novelists, Chris Gooch expertly crafts a taut and intimate thriller about mothers and daughters, the monstrous and the mundane, and the power of friendship in the midst of catastrophe.

Walter Scott

When Wendy is nominated for the coveted National FoodHut Contemporary Art Prize, all of her millennial dreams seem to be coming true. But not even achieving bona fide art star fame can hide the truth: a never-ending struggle with imposter syndrome. After she cracks in an online interview and gets dragged in the comments section, she heads straight to a local watering hole to drown her sorrows.

Walter Scott’s, ‘The Wendy Award’ from Drawn & Quarterly, incisively skewers the art world with its corporate overlords, performative activism, generational wealth, and weaponized therapy speak—a showcase of Walter Scott’s deft wit and social commentary. Walter Scott is an interdisciplinary artist working in comics, drawing, video, performance, and sculpture. Scott is Kanien’keha:ka from the Kahnawake Mohawk nation.

Sig Burwash

Sig Burwash is a visual artist whose practice includes watercolor, collage, ceramics, animation, illustration, and comics. They have had their works exhibited in the United States, Europe and Canada, where they live on Cape Breton Island.

Sig attended the Centre for Cartoon Studies to work on their debut graphic novel, Vera Bushwack from Drawn & Quarterly. The uniquely emotive pastel pages follow a journey of rage, joy, and self-acceptance in the rustic landscape of Nova Scotia. This is Sig’s first time attending SPX.

Small Press Expo 2024 Announces More Special Guests

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Small Press Expo has announced more Special Guests for SPX 2024. The show takes place on Saturday September 14 and Sunday September 15 with programming and workshops about the amazing world of independent comics and an exhibitor floor with over 500 creators.

Additional Special Guests will be announced over the next few weeks.

SPX 2024 is honored to have the following creators as Special Guests to this year’s show:

Ngozi Ukazu

Ngozi Ukazu is a DC Comics artist, New York Times-bestselling graphic novelist, and the creator of comics like Check, Please!, BUNT!, DC Comics’ Barda (which will debut at SPX), and the forthcoming graphic novel FLIP.

She graduated from Yale University with a degree in Computing in the Arts, and since 2020 her cartoons have appeared in The New Yorker. Her comic Check, Please! won the Ignatz Award for Outstanding Comic at Small Press Expo 2019.

https://www.ngoziu.com

Glynnis Fawkes

Eric Cline’s 1177 B.C. from Princeton University Press, illustrated by Glynnis Fawkes, tells the story of one of history’s greatest mysteries: what caused the ancient civilizations of the Aegean and Eastern Mediterranean to collapse more than three thousand years ago, bringing the Late Bronze Age to an abrupt end?

In this vivid and captivating full-color graphic adaptation of the landmark book, author-illustrator Glynnis invites us to follow two young friends living in the aftermath of the cataclysm as they unravel why it happened—and reveal important lessons for today’s interconnected and vulnerable world.

https://www.glynnisfawkes.com

Tara Booth

Known for her buzzing colors, delightful patterns, sharp humor, and unflinching vulnerability, Tara Booth does not miss any mark in this exquisitely woven collection of pure and nasty magic. Part advice column and exhibit, exploration of psychic pollution and tranquility, Processing is—quite simply—intrepid: in its honesty; its unapologetic grossness; its unrivaled and frank portrayal of life with a body that bleeds. With color that vibrates and fluids that impose, Processing: 100 Comics That Got Me Through It from Drawn and Quarterly, lays Booth bare—literally and figuratively.

https://www.tarabooth.club

Yasmeen Abedifard

Yasmeen Abedifard, last year’s Ignatz Award winner for Outstanding Minicomic, debuts her first graphic novel from Silver Sprocket, When to Pick a Pomegranate, at SPX 2024. It is a strikingly lyrical and heart-wrenching collection from a lauded young talent. In this collection of contemplative and cathartic short comics, the pomegranate Anar and the woman Guli exist as reflections of each other — repellent to one another and yet inexorably drawn together once more. As they evolve through each story, proceeding through the stages of the plant life cycle, they take on new roles: muse and artist, gardener and seed, lover and fruit.

Abedifard’s comic form evokes Persianate storytelling and draws on stylistic elements found in illuminated manuscripts, building an experience as rich and complex as the taste of pomegranate on one’s tongue. A poetic and evocative exploration of destiny and survival.

https://www.yasmeenabedifard.net

Emma Hunsinger

Emma Hunsinger, the creator of the popular “How to Draw a Horse” published in The New Yorker, will be debuting her funny, vulnerable, and disarming graphic novel How It All Ends at SPX 2024. It is a book about being overwhelmed by who you are and who you might be—and all the possibilities in between

https://www.emmahunsinger.com

Beth Hetland

We are thrilled to have Beth Hetland as a guest at SPX! She’ll be presenting and signing her graphic novel debut Tender, from Fantagraphics. It is a psychological thriller about a woman obsessed with her vision for a picture-perfect, curated life. Katie Skelly deemed it “a Jeanne Dielman for the Instagram generation” and Publishers Weekly called it “nimble and unsettling”.

https://www.beth-hetland.com

Sara Lautman

Sara Lautman’s cartoon art has been published in The New York Times, Playboy, Mad, The Paris Review and elsewhere. She is a regular contributor to The New Yorker, where her cartoons have appeared since 2016. Support Craft (Parsifal Press), a new collection of three stories about work, aging, and the supernatural lesbian rumor mill, will debut at SPX 2024. 

www.saralautman.com

Small Press Expo 2024 Announces the first round of Special Guests

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Small Press Expo has announced the first Special Guests for SPX 2024. The show takes place on Saturday September 14 and Sunday September 15 with programming and workshops about the amazing world of independent comics and an exhibitor floor with over 500 creators.

Additional Special Guests will be announced over the next few weeks.

Tillie Walden

Tillie Walden will be signing copies of Clementine Book 1 and Book 2, as well as Junior High, a graphic novel made in collaboration with Tegan and Sara Quin. Also at the show there will be copies of her sketchbook compilation and never-before-seen zines! Her other work will be available as well, including her earliest work with Avery Hill Publishing. She will be giving the SPX Lecture at the Library of Congress at Noon, September 13.

Carol Lay

We are so honored to have Carol Lay as a Special Guest at SPX! She’s been creating art for decades and has an incredible body of work. Her new book, My Time Machine from Fantagraphics, is serious and funny, a sly cautionary political satire, and a rollicking time travel story full of puzzling paradoxes, edge-of-your-seat suspense, breezy badinage, and a deeply felt wonder at the universe.

Peter Kuper

Peter Kuper is a multi-award-winning cartoonist and illustrator who is frequently featured in The New Yorker, The Nation, and Mad. In 1979 he co-founded the political comix magazine World War 3 Illustrated, and has produced over two dozen books during his career. Peter has lectured and exhibited his work extensively throughout the world and teaches Harvard University’s first class dedicated to graphic novels. Among other awards, in 2016 his graphic novel Ruins won the Eisner Award for Best Graphic Album. He is currently working on a graphic novel on the history of insects and the people who study them. He will be signing copies of the paperback edition of Ruins published by SelfMadeHero

Dash Shaw

In his latest offering, Dash Shaw wrestles with the murky indeterminacy of life. Blurry, from the New York Review of Books, asks that readers sit in—try to enjoy, even—that place of doubt and indecision, where the future is uncertain, identity is unsettled, and chance encounters intrude. Sometimes making a choice is so damn hard. And who knows what will be the consequences of one’s action? In Blurry, Shaw creates a cast of characters who tell their stories of those pivotal moments of decision and what came after.

Christi Furnas

Christi Furnas’ graphic novel Crazy Like a Fox from Street Noise Books tells an autobiographically-inspired story about leaving home, figuring out life, being diagnosed with schizophrenia, and navigating the mental health system. Publishers Weekly says, “Furnas skewers the mental healthcare system in her sharp-edged graphic novel debut. . . . This surreal work reflects the disorientation of mental breakdown.”

About the book, Christi says, “I want Crazy Like a Fox to lift some of the fear and stigma around talking about psychotic illness, and offer hope. I’m happy and thriving.”

Christi will be talking about her graphic novel and mental health, and signing books at the show.

George Wylesol

George Wylesol is the author of the graphic novels 2120 and Curses, debuting at SPX from Avery Hill. He will be at SPX to talk about horror and the internet age, as well as signing books. His brightly-colored, experimental work ranges from short stories to choose-your-own-adventure style narratives that emphasize the weirdness of the world around us all and the prevalence of computers in our society today.

“His cartooning is economical, effective in a lunging sort of way. . . . the sensory experience of looking overpowers most everything else. His cartooning is economical, effective in a lunging sort of way,” says The Comics Journal about Curses.

Small Press Expo 2023: Depicting Viscerality in Sports And Wrestling

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The Small Press Expo has posted all of the programming panels from SPX 2023 on YouTube to watch!

There is dazzling skill in hockey, from the speed of the skaters to their deft work with the stick. There is magnificent spectacle in pro wrestling, with a vast array of high-flying maneuvers and gnarly-looking submissions. What they have in common is the sheer, visceral thrill of contact: a bone-rattling check to the boards or an agonizing body slam. Moderator Teppi Zuppo asks Ed Luce (Wuvable Oaf), Leela Corman (Victory Parade), Rob Ullman (Old-Timey Hockey Tales), and Tanya Dorph-Mankey (The Plight Of Orange Cassidy) how they convey this feeling of impact in a two-dimensional form.

Small Press Expo 2023: Queer Friendship Spaces

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The Small Press Expo has posted all of the programming panels from SPX 2023 on YouTube to watch!

For many queer authors, the depiction of friendships and romances goes beyond the people involved. It specifically extends to the physical spaces they hang out, can feel safe, and create traditions. Whether it’s clubs, cafes, bars, rec rooms or beyond, the spaces themselves tell a story. Join moderator Rob Kirby as he talks about these spaces with Lawrence Lindell (Blackward), Emma Jayne (Trans Girls On The Town), Archie Bongiovanni (The Greasebats, Mimosa), and Al Varela (Young, Dumb, And Queer).

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