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More Weight: A Salem Story is educational and visually amazing

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In Salem, Massachusetts, 1692 is a year of terror. When accusations of witchcraft plunge the community into paranoia and death, curmudgeonly farmer Giles Corey and his great-souled wife Martha are forced to confront their troubled pasts, fighting to hold onto their principles even at the cost of their lives. In the 1860s, famed writers Nathaniel Hawthorne and Henry Wadsworth Longfellow stroll the streets of Salem together, reflecting on their own dark connections to those wicked days. Today, graphic novelist Ben Wickey wrestles with the complex legacy of “the Witch City” and what it shows us about the best and worst of humanity.

Based on true events, set in three centuries, and hand-drawn over a decade, More Weight is a stunning visual symphony — a unique and profound inquiry into the infamous Salem witch trials and the long shadows they still cast on us all.

Story: Ben Wickey
Art: Ben Wickey

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Preview: More Weight

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More Weight

Ben Wickey

In Salem, Massachusetts, 1692 is a year of terror. When accusations of witchcraft plunge the community into paranoia and death, curmudgeonly farmer Giles Corey and his great-souled wife Martha are forced to confront their troubled pasts, fighting to hold onto their principles even at the cost of their lives.

Based on true events, set in three centuries, and hand-drawn over a decade, More Weight is a stunning visual symphony — a unique and profound inquiry into the infamous Salem witch trials and the long shadows they still cast on us all.

More Weight

Small Press Expo 2025 announces more Special Guests

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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.

Alan Moore and Steve Moore’s long-awaited magnum opus, The Moon and Serpent Bumper Book of Magic, coming October 2024

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Top Shelf Productions and Knockabout Ltd have announced the publication date of the long-awaited The Moon and Serpent Bumper Book of Magic. Born of the longstanding creative partnership between legendary writer Alan Moore and his creative and magical mentor Steve Moore (no relation), this celebration of magic and the occult has been meticulously under development for nearly two decades and is brought to life through a combination of prose, illustration, and sequential art from five incredible artists. This veritable grimoire of the magical, the mystical, and even the macabre will be on sale in October 2024.

The secrets of the celebrated Moon and Serpent Grand Egyptian Theatre of Marvels (sorcery by appointment since circa 150 AD) promise to be revealed in The Moon and Serpent Bumper Book of Magic. This clear and practical grimoire of the occult pairs the knowledge of the proprietors of the aforementioned Grand Egyptian Theatre with illuminating visual delights from artists Kevin O’Neill, John Coulthart, Steve Parkhouse, Rick Veitch, and Ben Wickey. Unprecedented in its scope and splendor, this tome is full to bursting with illustrated instructional essays, activity pages, biographies of the great sorcerers, and forbidden knowledge sure to tantalize even the most disillusioned of adults into believing in magic once again.

The Moon and Serpent Bumper Book of Magic (ISBN 978-1-60309-550-1) will be available in fine bookstores and comic shops in October 2024.

The Moon and Serpent Bumper Book of Magic