The Small Press Expo has posted all of the programming panels from SPX 2023 on YouTube to watch!
For many queer authors, the depiction of friendships and romances goes beyond the people involved. It specifically extends to the physical spaces they hang out, can feel safe, and create traditions. Whether it’s clubs, cafes, bars, rec rooms or beyond, the spaces themselves tell a story. Join moderator Rob Kirby as he talks about these spaces with Lawrence Lindell (Blackward), Emma Jayne (Trans Girls On The Town), Archie Bongiovanni (The Greasebats, Mimosa), and Al Varela (Young, Dumb, And Queer).
The Small Press Expo has posted all of the programming panels from SPX 2023 on YouTube to watch!
Rob Kirby has been a crucial part of the queer comics scene for over three decades, both as a cartoonist for his Curbside Boys series as well as an editor and publisher. His latest book, Marry Me A Little, focuses on what led to getting married after it was legalized for queer couples. He’ll be joined by cartoonist and organizer MariNaomi, whose new book, I Thought You Loved Me, is an intriguing mix of memoir and mystery. Educator and cartoonist Justin Hall will delve into their new books and other topics with them.
Small Press Expo has announced the second list of Special Guests for SPX 2023. The show takes place on Saturday September 9 and Sunday September 10 with programming and workshops about the amazing world of independent comics and an exhibitor floor with over 500 creators.
MariNaomi, Bill Griffith, Nicole Goux, Hannah Templer, Eddie Campbell, Rob Kirby, Joel Priddy,and Raeghan Buchanan have been revealed as Special Guests for SPX 2023.
Additional Special Guests will be announced over the next few days.
MariNaomi
MariNaomi is an award-winning illustrator and banned-book author who must dig into their past in order to come to terms with the death of a close friendship in their latest book I THOUGHT YOU LOVED ME from Fieldmouse Press. Using a gorgeous mix of collage and drawing, Mari excavates their own journals, ephemera, and mind to piece together their relationship with Jodie, and why it tumultuously ended.
Bill Griffith
Join Bill Griffith, creator of Zippy the Pinhead and Nobody’s Fool, to celebrate Three Rocks, a biography of cartoonist Ernie Bushmiller, creator of the iconic comic strip Nancy.
Nicole Goux
Nicole Goux is an Eisner Award nominated illustrator and cartoonist from Los Angeles. Her latest book that she’ll be signing at SPX is the fantastic Pet Peeves, released in May 2023 by Avery Hill Publishing. Pet Peeves is a magical realist urban horror story that touches on the nature of modern work-lives, creative enterprise and self-destructiveness.
Hannah Templer
Hannah Templer is best known as the writer and artist of the Ignatz-nominated graphic novel series COSMOKNIGHTS (published by Top Shelf, readable online at www.cosmoknights.space), in which a ragtag band of queer gladiators, princesses, and rebels battle the galactic patriarchy through a series of neo-medieval jousting tournaments.
Eddie Campbell
Eddie Campbell started calling his hand-stapled comics “small press” in 1981 when everybody else was saying “alternative” “underground” and “zines.” He takes some pleasure in seeing that the term has stuck. He self-published his comic book BACCHUS for 60 issues as well as the collected FROM HELL (with Alan Moore). His autobiographical concoctions form his favorite strain of his own work. This strain was collected in ALEC: THE YEARS HAVE PANTS and emerges again in his new back-to-back reversible book, THE SECOND FAKE DEATH OF EDDIE CAMPBELL / THE FATE OF THE ARTIST.
Rob Kirby
Rob Kirby will be signing his new book, the graphic memoir Marry Me a Little at the Graphic Mundi table (periodically during the weekend)… Appearing in a spotlight panel… Moderating a panel… Possibly another panel, not sure.
Joel Priddy
Greek myth has inspired stories and art for millennia. And yet some stories and characters remain unfamiliar. First There Was Chaos, by Joel Priddy, explores the formless, primordial, and extraordinary forces that preceded the Olympian gods. These tales of Creation illustrate the creative process, giving cosmic form to the universal struggles of all creators.
Raeghan Buchanan
Raeghan Buchanan will be at SPX this year as part of panels and book signings for “The Secret History of Black Punk: Record Zero” which is published by Silver Sprocket. The Secret History of Black Punk delvse into the largely overlooked footprint that Black punks have on the underground music scene in a new archival publication. It is an illustrated roll-call for punk, post-punk, hardcore, no-wave, and experimental bands from ground zero ‘til now. A starting point for anyone curious, another reference for those who devour all genre-related things, or a cool artifact for anyone in the know.
In Marry Me a Little: A Graphic Memoir, Rob Kirby recounts his experience of marrying his longtime partner, John, just after gay marriage was legalized in Minnesota in 2013, and two years before the Supreme Court decision in Obergefell v. Hodges made gay marriage the law of the land.
Story: Rob Kirby Art: Rob Kirby
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