| HOT & SPICY! | | | DIRTY THIRTY: Thirty Years of Making a Scene | | An extra special selection of comics! Spicy content and a flamboyant variety of styles! You can find all this and more in The Dirty Thirty, a 300+ page international anthology of comics from Stripburger’s long and varied first 30 years!
Extra special pre-order price (until 1 March 2023): 23 € + international shipping
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The first 30 years of Stripburger: a fertile breeding ground for independent comics!
In 1992, Stripburger saw the light of day: a comics magazine with a peculiar character and a distinctive cosmopolitan taste. In three decades, it has evolved from an experimental visual fanzine into one of the most prominent and active players in the local comics scene and an adamant promoter of comics culture(s). Since 30 years of commitment and involvement in the independent comics scene are nothing to sneeze at, we decided to celebrate this honorable anniversary with what we love most: COMICS!
The hefty 300+ page international comics anthology titled The Dirty Thirty showcases the most vibrant and gritty comics from Stripburger’s 30-year history. It’s a uniquely spicy selection of short comics with only one thing in common: they were once published in the magazine. All were created by more than 70 comics artists whose work represents all the diversity, uniqueness and variety that has been one of Stripburger’s hallmarks from its inception to the present day. It is sure to satiate even the hungriest of comics fans. Yummy! More info →
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| A special anniversary edition of the Stripburger magazine (1992–2022) A4-, 392 pgs. (296 pgs. comics + 96 pgs. accompanying texts), language: English-Slovene, regular price: 30 €. |
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STILL FRESH!
COVER: Harukichi (JP)
SOAPBOX: David Schilter (kuš!)
PROFILE: Malcy Duff (SCT)
INTERVIEW: Kutikuti (FI)
COMICS: Disa Wallander (SE), Ana Margarida Matos (PT), Evangelos Androutsopoulos (FI/GR), Bohdana Zaiats (UA), Oskars Pavlovskis (LV), Akvile Magicdust (LT), Maira Dobele & Rebeka Lukošus (LV), Pauls Rietums (LV), Harukichi (JP), Tommi Musturi (FI), Andrej Štular (SI), Nuka Horvat (SI), Powerpaola (CO), Lukas Weidinger (AT), König Lü. Q. (CH), Christopher Sperandio (US), Malcy Duff (SCT)
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2022 was the year of anniversaries. Stripburger turned 30, and Latvian comics magazine kuš! celebrated its 15 years of existence. Joint celebrations are fun, so we switched our editors for one issue and, behold – The 80th issue of Stripburger!
It brings a plethora of amazing new discoveries as well as familiar names from the international comics scene. All that, mixed in the refreshing comics cocktail by kuš! editor David Schilter. Japanese artist Harukichi joined our party as well by creating the cover. Not to mention that his famous DJ Cat Gosshi had finally travelled to Slovenia! |
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| December 2022, format: A4-, 120 pages: 96 magazine + 24 supplement, language: English-Slovene, offset printed locally in Slovenia. |
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MUST-HAVE!Special kuš! issue edited by Stripburger Grab also the latest issue of the Baltic comics magazine š! #46: What’s next?, with the Stripburger team as guest editors.
COVER: Miha Perne (SI)
November 2022, format: A6, 164 pages, full-color, language: English
Order it from kuš! webshop!
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HOW TO BUY STRIPBURGER : order it from our webshop or write to burger@mail.ljudmila.org.
In our webshop you can also order back issues of the magazine for as long as we have them in stock.
WE SHIP WORLDWIDE! Preferred payment: PayPal.
SUPPORT: The Slovenian Book Agency (JAK).
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Stripburger: being daring and dashing since 1992!
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Emmanuel Filteau emmanuel.filteau@gmail.com
http://tfti.inkorpora.com/
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Through the Interface, Artificial intelligence now controls human
destiny. Put
to sleep by a million virtual dreams, our will slowly evaporated.
[Montréal, Québec, February 15 2023] Emmanuel
Filteau is launching the fourth comic book in his creator-owned series, TALES
FROM THE INTERFACE. Coming to Kickstarter, March 15.
 What will be
left of us when we no longer think for ourselves and depend on technology for
every aspect of our life? When they are not dreaming, citizens must endure in a
harsh, violent and closed-up decaying city. Order is maintained by the
Robopaxes, nightmarish tentacular monsters. At the center of all this, a couple
is torn apart. While Clara continues unraveling the mysteries of humanity's
past, Gauthier sinks ever deeper into promises of luxury and unending dreams.TALES FROM THE INTERFACE is
brilliantly detailed, colorful sci-fi epic, packed full of clever references
dipped in black humour.
“I really get the feel of some of the more out-there
stories in Judge Dredd, or a weird amalgamation of some of the more off the
wall Future Shocks. This is high praise and should be read to be enjoyed. I can
see people settling down on a dark night to read this as it totally immerses
you into it.”
3millionyears.co.uk
Emmanuel Filteau is a Montreal-based author.
He’s been independently publishing TALES FROM THE INTERFACE since 2017 and has
been in the comics business since 1997. He’s published in numerous
anthologies/magazines. TALES FROM THE INTERFACE is a truly independent project.
As a solo creator, Emmanuel takes pride in the singular expression of art as a
form of communication and describes his comic as a big part of how he talks to
the world. Tales from the Interface 1 won 3rd place in Bleeding Cool’s Top
Independent comic of 2017 and Book 3 was nominated for best comic book in
Sequential Magazine 2021 Awards.
Book details
6x9”
48 pages of comics
Full Colour
Perfect bound
Kickstarter price: CA$ 24 / US$ 18 (Incl.
shipping within Canada)
Store price: CA$ 18 / US$ 14 (Plus shipping)
Available June 2023
Kickstarter campaign link
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/emmanuelfilteau/tales-from-the-interface-4
Previous issues can be read starting here: https://tfti.inkorpora.com/tfti/interface/jumping-out/
Store link, where the book
will be available after the campaign.
http://tfti.inkorpora.com/shop/
Call for Submissions: POMAZINE
Pomazine is looking for submissions for their upcoming zine all about home and belonging.
What does the theme "home and belonging" mean to you? If you're an artist, writer, academic, poet, and want to contribute, follow the link below. |
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PEOW ENDS AFTER 10 YEARS
Beginning with risographed books and fanzines made internally, PEOW would go on to publish a vast assortment of contemporary, international cartoonists, such as Thu Tran, Jane Mai, Linnea Sterte and Ville Kallio.
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Quimby's Bookstore March News
Bravo, you made it through February and now spring is mere days away (sort of). We're already springing the clocks forward this coming weekend, right? People still do that around here? Yeah, well, everybody says time means nothing anymore so spring your clock forward or fall it back or melt it over the top of the kitchen table, whatever you want really. We won't judge (aloud). But whatever surface you're melting your clock on (not a euphemism..or is it?), you should come visit us here in Chicago. If you're paying attention to whatever *our clock* says, we're happy to greet you during our open hours of Thurs through Mon from noon to 6pm (closed Tues and Wed). Not in IL? Check out or sporadically updated webstore or our link at bookshop.org.
Featured Pupstomer of the Month
Meet Bori (aka Boris when he’s naughty), who hails from the South Loop. He was a real chill character stopping by with his human @hannieees to sniff out what things were afoot here at the Circle Q on a sunny day. Thanks for stopping by, friends!
Quimby's Events
Zine Club Chicago IN PERSON: Chicago Stories Edition
7-9 p.m. CT Friday, March 24
Quimby’s Bookstore
1854 W. North Ave
Free!
The big-shouldered metropolis we call home has inspired countless self-publishers, so this month Zine Club Chicago is celebrating zines about Chicago! We’ll be bringing back our discussion-meets-show-and-tell format for this in-person gathering, so please bring your favorite Chicago zines to share.
Come here to the shop, 1854 W. North Avenue in Wicker Park. Snacks will be on hand! Masks are strongly encouraged when you’re not noshing.
Out-of-town friends, Zine Club Chicago will be back on Zoom with y’all in April! If you’d like to get together virtually with zine pals in March, check out Zine Party!, hosted by Michael Verdi, at 7:30 p.m. CT Tuesday, March 14. For more info and the Zoom link, visit next.zine.party.
Zine newbies and longtime enthusiasts alike are always welcome at Zine Club Chicago, the city’s only book club-style event for people who read zines. This free monthly series is produced by Cynthia E. Hanifin and sponsored by Quimby’s Bookstore. Anna Jo Beck designs the monthly flyers, created the logo, and made the Zine Club Chicago Shout-Outs site, where folks can peruse and recommend zines discussed at ZCC events.
More info at quimbys.com and on the Zine Club Chicago social media channels: @zineclubchicago. Facebook event is here.
Early Warning Events:
Garfield From Memory Painting Pop-up Sat, May 15th
Dave Eggers Tues, April 11th
New Stuff (a sampling)
See (some of) this stuff at our webstore at quimbys.com/store. Watch our New Stuff Saturdays Livestream at 11:30am CT on Instagram: @quimbysbookstore. Lists of new stuff are posted (mostly) weekly at quimbys.com/blog.
Zines
Shot In CDMX - A Mini Movie Marathon by Anna Jo Beck $2
Iceland Travel Zine 2022 by Min Heo $15
Xerography Debt #53 $4.95
Famous Monochromes of Art History: A Paint by Numbers Coloring Book by Jesse Malmed and You $8
2 new titles from Roostercow/Chris Auman: Used Records and Tapes #3 $7, Gray Flag #3 $4.50
Ker-bloom! #160 by Artnoose $2
Spaghetti Brain Archive #2 $8
AnxietyGrlz $8
Davezine #18 Packing Up and Throwing Away by David G. Cookson $5
Space Queer Chronicles vol 1 Love for the Wounded and Sensitive by Lucia Dabdoub $10
From Interference Archive: We Won’t Move Tenants Organize In New York City $12, Defend Defund Zine Series $21, Interference Archive Building: A Counter Institution In the United States by Jen Hoyer and Josh MacPhee $9
Meat Sheet #7 $3.33
Community Mausoleums of the Midwest by Nicholas Knowlton $2
Decolonize This Yard: Land Back to Native Ecologies and Communities Midwest Flower Mix $8
Comics & Minis
Secret History of Black Punk Record Zero by Raeghan Buchanan (Silver Sprocket) $14.99
Cartoon Dialectics #3 2022 by Tom Kaczynski (Uncivilied) $6
Fungirl Vulva Viking by Elizabeth Pich (Silver Sprocket) $9.99
Sober Rabbit – Stars and Strips Forever Selected Strips 2019-2022 by Whitney Wasson $18
Pee Pee Poo Poo Comics #69 Silver Sprocket 2023 Edition by Caroline Cash $9.99
Mineshaft #43 $15.00
It’s Hard to Say What Shape I’m In by Johnny Sampson $10 – Plus stickers, cards, restocks & more!
Caravaggio Meets the Magic Man by Quinn Koeneman $24.99
Marshmallows by Chris Resnick $8.00
Zines by Jude R. Bettridge: Making Zines Fun Folds to Follow $5, Smells Good $3
Haunt: A Collection of Spectral Comix Poems by Tori Holder $6
Grixly #59 & #60 by Nate McDonough $3 each
Rituals by Nicole Goux (Silver Sprocket) $12.99
Two Births of Neeve by Ciara (Uncivilied) $4
Graphic Novels
Brooklyn’s Last Secret by Leslie Stein (D&Q) $29.95
Now vol 12 Fantagraphics New Comics Anthology $12.99
Where I’m Coming From by Barbara Brandon-Croft (D&Q) $29.95
Sugar and Other Stories by Joy San (Silver Sprocket) $21.99
Spa by Erik Svetoft (Fantagraphics) $34.99
Heartless 10th Anniversary Edition by Nina Bunjevac (Conundrum) $20
Shigeru Mizuki’s Kitaro: Japan’s Classic Manga (D&Q) $29.95
We’re All Just Fine by Ana Penyas (Fantagraphics) $24.99
Krazy and Ignatz: George Herriman Library 1925-1927 (Fantagraphics) $49.99
The Extraordinary Part: Book One: Orsay’s Hands by Florent Ruppert and Jérôme Mulot (Fantagraphics) $45
Dark Cabbage and the Egg by Emma Jon-Michael Frank (Floating World) $17.95
Film & Music Books
House of Psychotic Women Expanded Edition: An Autobiographical Topography of Female Neurosis in Horror and Exploitation Films by Kier-La Janisse $59.95
Leonard Cohen: Everybody Knows: Inside His Archive by Julian Cox and Jim Shedden $39.95
The Business: A History of Popular Music from Sheet Music to Streaming by Simon Napier Bell (Unbound) $18.95
The Frightfest Guide to Vampire Movies: The Dark Heart of Cinema by Nathaniel Thompson (Fab Press) $24.95
Rebel Soul: Musings, Music, and Magic by Bebe Buell (HoZac Books) $39.99
The History of Miami Hip Hop: The Story of DJ Khaled, Pitbull, DJ Craze, and Other Contributors to South Florida’s Scene (Scene History) by John Cordero (Microcosm Publishing) $16.95
69 Exhibition Road: Twelve True-Life Tales from the Fag End of Punk, Porn & Performance by Dorothy Max Prior (Strange Attractor Press) $24.95
Rock’s in My Head: Encounters With Phil Spector, John & Yoko, Brian Wilson and a Host of Other People Who Should Be Just as Famous by Art Fein (Trouser Press Books) $18.50
Babes In Toyland’s Fontanelle (33 1/3 vol 170) by Selena Chambers $14.95
Play Like a Man: My Life in Poster Children by Rose Marshack $19.95
Conform To Deform: The Weird & Wonderful World Of Some Bizzare by Wesley Doyle $24.95
Verse, Chorus, Monster! by Graham Coxon $29.95
The Fascist Groove Thing: A History of Thatcher’s Britain in 21 Mixtapes by Hugh Hodges (PM Press) $22.95
Politics & Revolution Books
Nourishing Resistance: Stories of Food, Protest, and Mutual Aid edited by Wren Awry (PM Press) $20
My Country Is the World: Writings, Speeches, Statements, and Interviews against the Vietnam War edited by Luke Stewart (Haymarket) $29.95
Cargo Rebellion: Those Who Chose Freedom by Jason Chang, Benjamin Barson, Alexis Dudden and Kim Inthavong (PM Press) $16.95
Spirituality and Abolition, edited by Ashon Crawley and Roberto Sirvent $20
On Medicine as Colonialism by Michael Fine (PM Press) $17.95
Essay(ish) Books
Every Single Piece of Blue Clothing That I Currently Own by Delphine Bedient (Sincerely Analog Press) $16
The Fastest Bicycle Rider in the World by Marshall W. “Major” Taylor (Belt Publishing) $20
Body Horror PRE-ORDER Capitalism Fear Misogyny Jokes by Anne Elizabeth Moore (Feminist Press) $18.95 – Not actually in stock yet. A pre-order!
Retro Gaming: A Byte Sized History of Video Games by Mike Diver $16.95
Remaking Society: A New Ecological Politics by Murray Bookchin (AK Press) $20
Mayhem & Outer Limits
Parlour Magic: A Little Manual of Amusing Phenomena by Henry Perkins $17.95
American Cults: Cabals, Corruption, and Charismatic Leaders by Jim Willis $22.95
Brotherhood of the Screaming Abyss: My Life with Terence McKenna by Dennis McKenna PhD $24.95
Lost Paititi and the Non-Human Remains of Nazca by Thierry Jamin $22
The Fact, Fictions and the Forbidden Predictions of the Amazing Criswell by Edwin Lee Canfield (Headpress) $27.95
Fiction
Vampire Weekend: A Novel by Mike Chen $28.99
The Flowers of Buffoonery by Osamu Dazai $14.95
The Solar Circus by Gustave Kahn, Translated by Sam Kunkel (First to Knock) $17
Loteria by Cynthia Pelayo (Agora Books) $17.99
Spectral Sounds: Unquiet Tales of Acoustic Weird by Manon Burz Labrande $16.95
Fight Night by Miriam Toews $18
Maroons by Adrienne Maree Brown (AK Press) $18
Station Six by S.J. Klapecki (AK Press) $16
Lit Journals, Chap Books, Poetry
Golden Record by Rosemary Valero-O’Connell (Silver Sprocket) $19.99
In Loving Memory of the Boy Who Broke My Heart by Liv Story $5
Moss Piglet: The Power of Myth Feb 2023 $12
Health & DIY
Mushrooming: An Illustrated Guide to the Fantastic Deadly and Strange World of Fungi by Diane Borsato and Kelsey Oseid $24.95
The Transmasculine Guide to Physical Transition: For Trans, Nonbinary, and Other Masculine Folks by Sage Buch + Workbook $16.95 each
Vagina Obscura: An Anatomical Voyage by Rachel E. Gross $17.95
Unfuck Your Eating: Using Science to Build a Better Relationship With Food, Health, and Body Image by Dr. Faith Harper (Microcosm) $14.95
Magazines
Broken Pencil #98 $7.95
Tape Op #153 $5.99
Mildew - The Secondhand Fashion Magazine #1 $20
For the Young at Heart
My Little Mushroom Book Activity Booklet by Margarita Fedorova $10.00
Plus! New stuff & restocks of patches, stickers, buttons!
...and much more!
Do you publish a zine or comic? Sell it here! Here's more info.
Get Stuff From our Online Bookshop.org Store
Sure, you may have visited our webstore at quimbys.com to get QuimbSwag (gift certificates, t-shirts, all that stuff) and a select few other exciting things. You can have stuff shipped! Or you can select Curbside Pickup, and we’ll hold it for you! But you can also order from our online Bookshop.org store and have your guilty pleasures that we don't carry shipped directly to you! Check out our curated lists over there too. We get a commission when you select Quimby’s as the store. Just make sure the Quimby’s logo is in the upper left corner. Thanks, friends!
You know we have a sister store a couple miles northeast of us, right? Chicago Comics at 3244 N. Clark St. They sell comics, graphic novels and more. See ChicagoComics.com and their Ebay store for more info.
In New York? Check out Quimby's Bookstore NYC!
536 Metropolitan Ave - quimbysnyc.com - on IG @quimbysbookstorenyc
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| COMICS GIVEAWAY!
Last chance to pre-order our spring publications and get discounts & limited-edition rewards!
Click any images below for more info (or to buy).
There's just one week left in our Spring 2023 Kickstarter campaign, so we're drumming up enthusiasm with a graphic novel giveaway! Visit our Instagram and Facebook pages to find out more (you can enter the contest on both social media platforms for a better chance at winning). Winners get to choose from any of our currently in-print comics and graphic novels.
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| REVIEWERS: We're still working on FLOP SWEAT #8, but you can read all our other Spring publications in the link below. FS8 will be added when completed, so please check back! If you prefer physical copies, just let us know. |
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Enter the contest on both IG & FB for a better chance of winning! |
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 | STEADY ROLLIN’: Preacher’s Kid, Black Punk, and Pedaling Papa
by Fred Noland
Starting as a hardscrabble misfit and minister's son in the Bible Belt, followed by a stint as a suburban So-Cal Black punk, and onward to bicycle-obsessed, graphic novelist and dad in Oakland, Steady Rollin’ is a portrait of the author in time-lapse. His memoir is composed of vignettes, uncovering his origins as an artist, exploring relationships past and present, ruminating on trauma and loss, and ultimately finding his place in the flow of life.
Noland employs styles that capture the essence of the moment and dialogue that reflects the multi-layered complexities and challenges of communication. Steady Rollin' is an autobiographical anthology stitched together by years of work across styles that range from the sharp and detailed renderings for his New Yorker pieces to dreamier representations from his childhood. His reflections are at turns absurd, bitingly funny, and poignant. With its investigation the into the cycle of life from the Before Times to The New Normal, Steady Rollin’ documents a world and a life in transition
6” x 8”, 220 pages. $20
Full-color covers B+w on cream paper with 32-page full-color insert at beginning on white paper. Perfect-bound GN |
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by Desmond Reed
Dramedy has never looked so… squiggly.
The Cola Pop Creemees: Opening Act is the debut graphic novel by Desmond Reed, and features seven stories starring the five members of the eponymous psychedelic rock band, The Cola Pop Creemees.
Laugh and cry as you witness Ralph Jonathan, Mona Gertrude, Gil Christopher, Henrietta Susan, and Wallace T.J. tackle depression, anxiety, trauma, family, heartbreak, jobs, parents, memories, addiction, drugs, alcohol, stress, comics, obsession, loss, creativity, music, school, unrequited love, mental health, existential sadness, and more!
6” x 8”, 240 pages. $15
Full-color covers with b+w interior. Perfect-bound GN |
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by Lance Ward
Flop Sweat is an ongoing serialization of Lance Ward’s autobiographical comics arranged chronologically. Previous self-published collections of these comics were featured in The Best American Comics. Ward’s life has been rife with pitfalls: abandonment, addiction, mental illness, sexual assault, arrest, attempted suicide, and even a death experience (not “near-death”, he was clinically deceased!). Yet, through it all he has somehow maintained a positivity about and loyalty to his art, even after crushing his drawing hand!
In issue #7: After fulfilling his psychiatric commitment, securing his first apartment, and dealing with memory loss due to mental illness, Lance finds himself in the employ of an ex-rock star and lands a gig as a radio show co-host!
5.5” x 8.5”, 24 pages. $6
Full-color covers and interior. Saddle-stitched |
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by Lance Ward
In issue #8: Working at a vinyl record store and co-host of a Heavy Metal radio show, Lance struggles with the darker side of the business. Also includes the story of Lance’s heart attack, death, and resurrection!
5.5” x 8.5”, 28 pages. $6
Full-color covers and interior. Saddle-stitched |
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Cover art by Jesse Lonergan
I meet Ethan Hawke, bump into Chris Claremont and Patrick Stewart, share birthdays with Kerry Washington, Grant Morrison, and Johnny Rotten, Ian MacKaye of Fugazi tells me about how he was on Saturday Night Live, I get punched in the face, bring a woman to give to birth, and my six year-old learns the word Shit!
5.5" x 8.5", 28 pages.
Full-color covers and interior. Saddle-stitched $8 |
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6" x 9", 24 pages.
Full-color cover and interior. Saddle stitched $5.99 |
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 | Tales From The Wolfby Tony Wolf 220 pages of autobio comics, graphic essays, and illustrations from New York Times comics creator Tony Wolf! Featuring true life stories from his 23 years living in Greenpoint, Brooklyn at the dawn of the Hipster Age - plus stories about unique food history, comics about early 80s comics fandom, political / protest cartoons, and stories created for several anthologies.
Fans of slice-of-life comics will enjoy this omnibus collection of all Wolf's stories & webcomics from the past 15 years, including many never before in print!
"Takes a personal yet analytical approach, akin to Scott McCloud's work."
- New York Magazine / Vulture “I thoroughly enjoyed Tales From The Wolf. I’m a huge fan of independent creators; artists who tell stories culled from real life & personal experience. Tony’s work absolutely stands alongside that of Robert Crumb, Linda Barry, and Harvey Pekar.”
- Bill Sienkiewicz, Eisner Award Hall of Fame & Emmy Award-nominated artist Published by Cosmic Lion Productions
6.625" x 10.25", 220 pages.
Full-color covers and interior. Perfect-bound GN $20 |
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|  | The Civil War Diary of Freeman Colby, vol. 3by Marek Bennett JANUARY-MAY, 1864:
While Freeman Colby recovers his health in a D.C. hospital, the war works unforeseen changes all around him…. Featuring the stories of schoolteachers & bricklayers, radicals & refugees, nurses & politicians – Drawn from their actual diaries, letters, sketchbooks, & more!
Published 2023 by Comics Workshop
Recipient of the NH Governor's Arts Award
Featured by US Library of Congress at the NATIONAL BOOK FESTIVAL ("Great Reads from Great Places 2022")
Includes maps, notes, reference images, & more.
5” x 7”, 534 pages.
Full-color cover with b+w interior. Perfect-bound GN $24.95 |
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A Film About Billy is a novel that alternates between comics and prose to tell the story of Collin Heart—a 17-year-old editing a documentary about his dead friend during an international suicide epidemic. “Dan McCloskey is one of these new creators whose craft and level of talent increases with each successive page. It’s a pleasure to watch him grow right before my eyes.” Ed Piskor -Brain Rot, Wizzywig, Hip Hop Family Tree “An honest, scary, and exciting prose/comics hybrid.” Jim Rugg -Supermag, Afrodisac, Street Angel 6" x 7.75", 248 pages.
Full-color cover with b&w interior. Perfect-bound GN $12 |
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Published by Silver Sprocket Bicycle Club 6.625" x 10.187", 32 pages.
Full-color covers and interior. Saddle-stitched $7.99 |
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Conventions, Shows & Events!Friends,
Yes, it is that time of year again where we officially kick off the planning for SPX 2023. This year's SPX will occur September 9-10, 2023 at the Marriott Bethesda North Hotel & Conference Center, with events occurring in the days preceding the show throughout the Washington, D.C. area.
Please be sure to check out our newly redesigned web site.
We look forward to seeing everybody this September!!
COVID-19 AND SPX
In these times of pandemics and other easily transmitted diseases, the health and safety of the SPX Community is paramount in our minds. So here is where we stand with health measures at this year's show:
- Masking will be required for everybody, attendees, exhibitors and SPX staff/volunteers.
- If there is a current Covid wave close to the show, proof of vaccination will once again be required to gain entry. This decision will be made and communicated to the SPX Community in mid-late August.
- For exhibitors, we will once again limit the number of people behind tables to 2-3 people, with medical exceptions allowed.
ATTENDEE KEY DATES
- First week in June - For those attendees coming from out of town, the hotel room block will be made available.
- Late June - Advance tickets will go on sale.
- Late June - Special Guests will be announced.
- Mid-August - Sign-up forms for workshops will become available.
- Mid-August - Ignatz nominees/voting, Debuts and Programming slate will all be announced.
EXHIBITOR KEY DATES
Below is our planned schedule for table registration and other exhibitor milestones for SPX 2023. If we are off by a day or two (or three...), we apologize beforehand.
If you want to be placed on the Exhibitor Email List, please fill out this form on our web site.
Any questions about tabling, send them to exhibitor-inquiries@smallpressexpo.com.
- March 4 - Invitations sent to publishers and creators on our Invite List.
- March 18 - Response for accepting/declining Invite List invitation due.
- March 20 - Table lottery opens.
- March 31 - Table lottery closes.
- April 1 - Ignatz Submissions open.
- April 24- Lottery winners and Wait Listed exhibitors contacted
- May 1- Table payment and hotel room block information sent to all table holders.
- May 22 - Payments due for all tables.
- May 31 - Ignatz Submissions close.
- July 10- Table Assignments sent out, begin signing up for badge pickup names and names for the program guide/web site.
- July 31 - Debut submissions begin.
- August 5 - Names due for Program Guide.
- August 14 - Debuts posted on web site, debut submissions end.
- August 19 - Names due for web site and badge pickup.
Stay safe and hope to see you in September, The SPX Executive Committee |
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Small Press Expo (SPX) is the preeminent showcase for the exhibition of independent comics, graphic novels, and alternative political cartoons. SPX is a registered 501(c)3 nonprofit that brings together more than 650 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. The expo includes a series of panel discussions and interviews with this year’s guests.
The Ignatz Award is a festival prize held every year at SPX recognizing outstanding achievement in comics and cartooning. |
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Small Press Expo P.O. Box 5704 Bethesda, Maryland 20824 |
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What will be
left of us when we no longer think for ourselves and depend on technology for
every aspect of our life? When they are not dreaming, citizens must endure in a
harsh, violent and closed-up decaying city. Order is maintained by the
Robopaxes, nightmarish tentacular monsters. At the center of all this, a couple
is torn apart. While Clara continues unraveling the mysteries of humanity's
past, Gauthier sinks ever deeper into promises of luxury and unending dreams.
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