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Small Press Expo 2025 announces Caroline Cash, Ann Telnaes, Peter Kuper, Laura Terry, Anders Nilsen, Julia Gforer and Paige Hender as Special Guests

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Small Press Expo has announced the next group 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.

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

Caroline Cash

Caroline Cash will debut a brand new self-published zine, entitled Zine: It’s Short For Magazine at SPX, as well as promote her new Adventure Time Bubbline One Shot (published by Oni Press).

She will also have copies of the new Kuš anthology that will come out later this Summer.

Caroline is currently working on her Eisner and Ignatz award winning series PeePeePooPoo, as well as a graphic novel about dyke drama. She is a Capricorn Sun, Virgo Moon, and Leo Rising.

Ann Telnaes

A two-time Pulitzer winner, Ann Telnaes worked as an editorial cartoonist at The Washington Post for over sixteen years. She resigned after a cartoon she submitted was rejected because it criticized billionaire tech and media executives, including the Post’s owner Jeff Bezos, for trying to curry favor with President Trump. Her resignation, which was posted on her Substack, went viral worldwide.

Peter Kuper

Award winning cartoonist Peter Kuper will be signing his latest graphic novel, Insectopolis: A Natural History (W.W.Norton) as well as debuting his upcoming Wish We Weren’t Here (Fantagraphic Books). He’ll have original art from Spy vs. Spy that he has written and drawn for Mad magazine since 1997 and his cartoon and illustration original art from The New Yorker, The Nation and Charlie Hebdo. Co-founder of the political anthology World War 3 illustrated, he’ll have the latest issue and many of his other books at his table.

Laura Terry

When Jinx and her mom move to an unfamiliar apartment, her life is turned upside down when a neighbor gives Jinx a magical crystal that brings a mischievous band of woodland creatures into her life. The Adorables are messy, distracting, adventurous and Jinx just wants to be left alone… until she meets her nerdy new neighbor Robyn and develops a crush. Getting rid of the Adorables turns out to be harder than expected, but this might just help Jinx find her way back to happiness in this middlegrade fantasy graphic novel published by Scholastic.

Anders Nilsen

Nilsen will be presenting his book Tongues, an epic retelling of the Greek myth of Prometheus, set in the present day and intertwoven with an orphan’s adventure story and ruminations on humanity’s fraught present moment. With exquisite full-color artwork to match its epic scope, Tongues has been called “Momentous” (Alexander Chee), “F#&%ing Amazing.” (Charles Burns), and “Momentous.” (Leela Corman). Max Porter called the book “A landmark book not only in the history of the graphic novel, but in the history of mythic storytelling.”

Julia Gfrörer

We are thrilled to announce that Julia Gfrörer will be at SPX and signing copies of her incredible new collection, World Within the World: Collected Minicomix & Short Works 2010-2022. Deemed “the Norton Anthology of Violence” by The New York Times, this collection stretches over 20,000 years from the Stone Age to the apocalypse. The tales within speak of desire, despair, and the universal need for connection and span centuries, continents, and cultures from prehistoric teenagers in love to Christian martyrs in the making to modern-day vampires on the make.

Paige Hender

Paige Hender (she/her) is a Canadian-born, Louisiana-raised, Hell-spawned cartoonist currently living in Shreveport with her cat Chaplin. The Confessional is Hender’s compelling debut horror graphic novel about a newly turned vampire yearning for salvation in the arms of the priest who uncovers her secret. This is her first time to be invited to a convention. She will be signing at the Silver Sprocket table all weekend. Please be nice to her.

Small Press Expo welcomes diverse comics guests from the The New Yorker, ‘70s Comix Underground, and animated political cartooning

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Everybody under The Big Tent: Small Press Expo welcomes diverse comics guests from the The New Yorker, ‘70s Comix Underground, and animated political cartooning.

Bethesda, Maryland; September 8, 2011 –  SPX boasts an exceptionally diverse exhibitor and guest list this year, featuring one of the long time top cartoonist working at The New Yorker, a vanguard editor/creator in Underground Comix, as well as a Pulitzer-Prize winning editorial cartoonist and animator.

Cartoonist Roz Chast has been one of the most versatile and talented cartoonists at The New Yorker since she became a staff cartoonist in 1979, a year after her first cartoon was published in the magazine. Respected for her talent as a writer and for her canny eye for finding the humor in trivial everyday things, she has published 10 collections of her work that appeared in The New Yorker. Ms. Chast has also illustrated other peoples books, as well as writing her own children’s books, her most recent one is titled Too Busy Marco.

As one of the original contributors to Wimmen’s Comix, the first series of comics drawn exclusively by women, Diane Noomin challenged the male-dominated landscape of ’60s underground cartooning and helped set the stage for the extraordinary diversity of voices in contemporary cartooning. Her character Didi Glitz was introduced in 1974 in the comic “Didi Glitz: She Chose Crime”,  and in 1976, Noomin founded the Twisted Sisters anthology series in collaboration with Aline Kominsky (now Crumb).

SPX is proud to have Ann Telnaes, one of only two women to win the Pulitzer Prize for editorial cartooning, as a guest at this year’s show. Telnaes started as a designer and worked for several years at Walt Disney Imagineering, later working for different companies across the world as an animator.  She turned to political cartooning where she won the 2001 Pulitzer Prize for Editorial Cartooning, and a few years ago decided to combine her passions. She now does two to three animated cartoons a week for the Washington Post, which can be viewed at http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/telnaes.

Roz Chast, Diane Noomin and Ann Telnaes are but three of the over 120 women creators who will be at this years SPX, this list as well as links to most of their web sites is available at http://www.spxpo.com/exhibitors/women.

The SPX website also features a full list of exhibitors and guests at http://www.spxpo.com/exhibitors. Watch the site for expanded profiles of these Big Tent cartoonists.

About SPX

SPX is a registered 501(c)3 non-profit that brings together more than 300 artists and publishers to meet their readers, booksellers and distributors each year. Graphic novels, mini comics, and alternative comics will all be on display and for sale by their authors and illustrators, as well as a series of panel discussions and interviews with this year’s guests.

SPX has established the  first of its kind Small Press Expo Collection at The Library of Congress to preserve the works of  the creators  in the indie comics field who either exhibit or are a guest at SPX,  as well as the history of the SPX Festival istelf.

As in previous years, profits from the SPX will go to support the the SPX Graphic Novel Gift Program, which gifts graphic novels to public and academic libraries, as well as the Comic Book Legal Defense Fund (CBLDF), which protects the First Amendment rights of comic book readers and professionals. For more information on the CBLDF, go to their website at http://www.cbldf.org.

The hours for SPX 2011 are 11am–7pm Saturday, September 10, and 12–6pm Sunday, September 11. Admission is $10 for a single day or $15 for the weekend.

For more information on the Small Press Expo, please visit http://www.spxpo.com.

Small Press Expo Announces Programming Slate for SPX 2011

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Bethesda, Maryland; August  11, 2010 – The Small Press Expo (SPX), the preeminent showcase for the exhibition of independent comics, graphic novels and alternative political cartoons, is pleased to announce its slate of programming for SPX 2011. SPX is proud to have earned a reputation for offering some of the most insightful, stimulating public interviews and panel discussions in comics today, assembled by comics educator and curator Bill Kartalopoulos.

Audiences at this year’s festival will have the opportunity to enjoy spotlight presentations and question-and-answer sessions with many of SPX’s headline guests, including Chester Brown, Roz Chast, Anders Nilsen, Diane Noomin, Johnny Ryan, Alex Robinson, Ann Telnaes, Craig Thompson, and Jim Woodring.

This year’s programming will also include a number of thoughtful panel discussions such as:

– “Inside The New Yorker,” featuring Roz Chast and Kate Beaton in conversation.
– “Narrative Logic: Surreal and Obscure,” with Marc Bell, Matthew Thurber, and Jim Woodring.
– “The Secret History of Women in Comics” with Jessica Abel, Diane Noomin and others, moderated by Heidi MacDonald.
– “Comics in the Library,” a round-table discussion with Sara Duke from the Library of Congress, Charles Brownstein, and representatives of two local library systems.
– “Navigating the Contemporary Publishing Landscape” with Mike Dawson, Meredith Gran and Julia Wertz.
– “Images of the Body” with Robyn Chapman, Jennifer Hayden, Gabby Schulz, and Jen Vaughn.

Additional programming events will include a slideshow presentation by Kim Thompson about the works of French comics giant Jacques Tardi and a hands-on cartooning workshop open to all attendees.

This year’s panels and spotlight sessions will be moderated by a bevy of critics, scholars, and other experts including Johanna Draper Carlson, Rob Clough, Craig Fischer, Martha H. Kennedy, Sean T. Collins, Joe McCulloch, and many more.

The complete schedule of programming is available on the SPX web site at http://www.spxpo.com/programming.

SPX Programming Coordinator Bill Kartalopoulos teaches classes about comics at Parsons The New School for Design. He also co-organizes the Brooklyn Comics Graphics Festival, reviews comics for Publishers Weekly, and has curated several comics-related exhibits including “Cartoon Polymaths” at the Sheila C. Johnson Design Center. He recently assisted Art Spiegelman on the production of MetaMaus, a book and DVD about the making of Maus.

SPX will be held Saturday, September 11 from 11AM – 7PM and Sunday, September 12, noon – 6PM at the Bethesda North Marriott Hotel and Convention Center in Bethesda, Maryland. Admission is $10 for a single day and $15 for both days.