SPX ARCHIVES

2007 IGNATZ RECIPIENTS ANNOUNCED

SPX 2007 hosted the eleventh annual presentation of the Ignatz Awards, a celebration of outstanding achievement in comics and cartooning. The Ignatz, named after George Herriman's brick-wielding mouse, recognizes exceptional work that challenges popular notions of what comics can achieve, both as an artform and as a means of personal expression.

The Ignatz Awards were be presented at the gala Ignatz Awards ceremony held on Saturday, October 13th, 2007 at 9:00 PM. Click here to view this year's results.

SMALL PRESS EXPO PROGRAMMING

SPX is pleased to announce a full slate of programming for Friday, Saturday and Sunday.

VOLUNTEERS - SMALL PRESS EXPO NEEDS YOU!

SPX is always looking for friendly volunteers to work the day of the show. Volunteers receive a free name badge and free admission to all days of the show, and invitations to all the show events. Click here for more information.

2007 SPX BADGES BY DAVID HEATLEY

SMALL PRESS EXPO ADDS MATT WAGNER, JEFF SMITH AND KIM DEITCH AS GUESTS FOR SPX 2007

Matt Wagner is one of the pioneers of indie comics with his original creation of “Grendel”, which celebrates its 25th Anniversary this year. Matt also created, wrote and drew “Mage”, and has worked on a number of projects for both DC and Vertigo. His next installment of the Grendel saga, “Behold The Devil” is due to be released this November from Dark Horse.

Jeff Smith is the creator of the celebrated epic “Bone”, which has over three million copies in print and is now available in Italian, Spanish, German and many other foreign languages. Jeff recently completed his critically acclaimed reworking of the Golden Age hero Captain Marvel, “Shazaam! The Monster Society of Evil” for DC Comics. He has recently been named by Fantagraphics as the art designer in charge of the upcoming reprints of Walt Kelly’s classic, “Pogo”.

Kim Deitch will be at SPX to promote his well received latest graphic novel, “Alias The Cat” from Pantheon Books. Kim is one of the original “underground” cartoonists who redefined comics in the 1960’s and has also worked in the field of animation.

Additional guests will be listed over the next few weeks, please stay tuned for those announcements.

BILL GRIFFITH, GILBERT HERNANDEZ AND RUTU MODAN ANNOUNCED AS GUESTS FOR SPX 2007

Bill Griffith is known world wide for his syndicated strip, Zippy The Pinhead, which runs daily in The Washington Post. He has a new Zippy collection out from Fantagraphics entitled “Zippy: Walk A Mile In MY Muu-Muu”. SPX is proud to have him make one of his rare convention appearances at this years show.

Gilbert Hernandez, whose Love and Rockets is considered one of the groundbreaking works in the history of comics, will be at SPX to promote his first graphic novel in four years, “Chance in Hell” from Fantagraphics.

Rutu Modan, one of the founders of the Actus Tragicus comics collective, will be at SPX with her first full length graphic novel, the critically acclaimed “Exit Wounds”, from Drawn & Quarterly.

SPX 2007 TABLES SOLD OUT

We are now sold out of exhibitor tables for SPX 2007.

We are no longer taking exhibitors forms for the wait list.

Exhibitors and attendees traveling to the show, make your hotel reservations early to receive the reduced rate.

SPX 2007 DATES ANNOUNCED

This year's show will be held on October 12th and 13th, 2007, at the Marriott Besthesda North Hotel and Conference Center.

Our first major guest is Jeff Smith, author/writer of the groundbreaking and multiple award winning series Bone as well as the upcoming Shazam: The Monster Society of Evil.

More guests will be announced in the months to come!

SPX INVADES FLICKR AND MYSPACE.

If you're on Flickr or MySpace, good news—so is SPX!

On Flickr, we'd love for you to contribute your photos to our Group Photo Pool for everyone to see. If you don't have a Flickr account (it's free!) or merely no pictures to share, you're of course still welcome to check out what everyone else has contributed.

On MySpace, you can visit our SPX page and even list the convention as being one of your friends. We've been assured it's what all the cool kids are doing these days.

2006's poster was by Tony Millionaire, with badge art by Kevin Huizenga. Click on the images for larger versions.