Small Press Expo has announced the next batch of Special Guests for SPX 2025. The show takes place on Saturday, September 13, and Sunday, September 14, with programming and workshops about the amazing world of independent comics as well as an exhibitor floor featuring over 500 creators.

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

SPX 2025 is honored to have the following creators as Special Guests to this year’s show:

Ngozi Ukazu

Ngozi Ukazu’s latest graphic novel Flip makes its festival debut at Small Press Expo. Flip follows a teenaged Black girl and her rich white crush as they figure out a body-switching curse.

Jordan Crane

Jordan Crane is a Special Guest at SPX! He’s based in LA, so this is a rare and wonderful opportunity for all his east coast fans to get signed copies of his work. His newest collection, Goes Like This, is a gorgeously designed book–exposed spine, varying paper stocks, the works–that collects all of his short stories, as well as other prints and drawings from his archive.

Mimi Pond

Mimi Pond crafts a gorgeous, dazzling biography of the Mitford Sisters.

Born with pedigrees but without the pocketbooks to match, The Mitfords were certainly no strangers to lies, intrigue, or scandal. The sisters grew from cloistered turn-of-the-century country girls into debutantes who would marry into political influence—for better or worse. Is it any wonder that a young, working class Mimi in Southern California becomes enamored with The Mitfords’ downright fanciful rich-and-famous lifestyle? This charming biography captures the dramatic antics of high society’s strongest personalities as they rubbed elbows with some of history’s most infamous fascists and communists.

Ben Wickey

Ben Wickey will be at the Top Shelf booth (tables W56-W59) all weekend, signing copies of his debut graphic novel More Weight: A Salem Story. Come check out the book that Alan Moore calls “The most insightful, beautifully crafted, and impressively researched dramatization of America’s founding frenzy that exists in any medium. An appalling masterpiece.” This staggering graphic novel explores the infamous Salem witch trials and the long shadows they cast more than 300 years later.