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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.

Fantagraphics Acquires Publishing Rights to Keeping Two by Jordan Crane

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Keeping Two

Fantagraphics has announced the acquisition of the worldwide publishing rights to Keeping Two by the acclaimed cartoonist, printmaker, and designer Jordan Crane, with a publication date of March 20, 2022. Over twenty years in the making, Keeping Two follows a young couple still relatively new at building what they hope will be a lifetime together, over the course of a day. Through a series of events, they are forced to individually confront loss, grief, fear, and insecurity in ways that will either strengthen their bond or tear it apart. Touching, raw, and beautifully illustrated, Crane has crafted a graphic novel that celebrates the comics medium while exploring the depths of the human condition.

Jordan Crane is a cartoonist living in Los Angeles, CA with his wife and kids. Crane first emerged in 1996 with the iconic comics anthology NON, which he edited, designed, printed, contributed to, and published. His previous book was the critically acclaimed all-ages graphic novel The Clouds Above (2008).

In Keeping Two, Crane’s formal use of the comics medium — threading several timelines and the interior and exterior lives of its protagonists together to create an increasing, almost Hitchcockian sense of dread and paranoia — is masterful. But as the title hints, there are dualities at its core that make it one of the most exciting works of graphic literary fiction in recent memory, a brilliant adult drama that showcases a deep empathy and compassion for its characters as well as a visually arresting showcase of Crane’s considerable talents. Keeping Two is ostensibly a story about loss, but by the end, it just might also be about finding something along the way — something that had seemed irredeemable up to that point. In that way, it’s also a deeply romantic book.

Preview: Adventure Time 2017 SpOooktacular #1

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Adventure Time 2017 SpOooktacular #1

Publisher: KaBOOM, an imprint BOOM! Studios
Writer: Grady Hendrix, Alyssa Wong, Adam Cesare, Chris Lackey
Artist: Heather Danforth, Christine Larsen, Slimm Fabert, Kate Sherron
Cover Artists:
Main Cover: Ian Culbard
Incentive Cover: Jordan Crane
Price: $7.99

To celebrate Halloween, it’s a collection of fresh new shorts starring everyone’s favorite malevolent mint, Peppermint Butler!

Whether he’s resorting to dark magick to launder his bow tie or fighting in the War of the Magicians, Pep Buts is the most tireless butler in Ooo. And in the land of Aaa, Butterscotch Butler is determined to keep Prince Gumball’s spooky masquerade safe from Marshall Lee’s tricks!