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.