@smallpressexpo
Small Press Expo/SPX is the pre-eminent indie comics festival and home of the Ignatz Awards. Every September we host over 500 creators for the ultimate in mini-comics, riso comix and graphic novels. www.smallpressexpo.com
First, the dates they provided are absolutely wrong and secondly, and most importantly, we WILL NOT be releasing room block info until late May.
Please spread the word and please, please do not give them any of your hard earned money.
Hello, friends.
We’ve just been alerted to the above email being circulated; it’s absolutely PHISHING SCAM
In the email, they announce hotel rooms for SPX are now available.
THIS. IS. FALSE. And not at all sent from us.
The SPX Table Lottery is live and open until March 15th! We wanna see you there so don’t forget to fill out the form below.
Reminder to SPX INVITEES to claim your tables by midnight Eastern Time tomorrow.
Where’re all my witches at? My spooky ghoulies, tarot mavens and Halloween honeys? This book is for you!! 📖🔮🎃
Coming this Fall, my second graphic novel, SCORPIO VENUS RISING will be hitting the shelves thanks to the fabulous folks @silversprocket.net and will debut @smallpressexpo.bsky.social 🐐📚💕
A reminder for SPX INVITEES that you have until COB Friday, March 6th To Claim Your Tables for SPX 2026!!!
We believe your presence at the Small Press Expo will allow us to continue our tradition of great creators at our event, and we’d love to see you there!
Hey Small Press publishers!
The @smallpressexpo.bsky.social lottery has officially opened! This is one of our favorite events to attend (sadly, we have yet to hit on the lottery, but fingers crossed 🤞).
We meet so many great creators there every year, and it really is a celebration of comics!
We are very pleased to share with you the SPX 2026 Banners done by Ignatz Award winning cartoonist, Sanika Phawde!
They’re so beautiful and we are so in awe of your talent! Thank you so much, Sanika!
oh hey i have some news I am debuting my new comic FOREVR at @smallpressexpo.bsky.social at the @topshelfcomix.bsky.social table!
Hey!
Do you like smiling? Well, we’ve got something to put a smile on your face! As I’m typing this, we are 199 days away from SPX 2026!
Like to grin? Well, guess what?!? The SPX Table Lottery is now OPEN!
Click the link below to put a grin on your mug and let’s see you in September!
Good luck!
3/16-3/29 - It’s SPX LOTTERY TIME with results coming out end of April! Good luck in advance!
Finally, info for how to pay for tables will be dropping in early May.
Welcome back to SPX Season!!!
2/16 - Formal Invites will be going out to INVITEES ONLY along with the table confirmation form opening up, as well.
3/6 - Responses to the table confirmation form for SPX 2026, must be completed and returned to us by 3/6.
TODAY, 2/9 - The Exhibitor timeline goes out to our Invitee List. If you get this email, you’ll be receiving a formal invite to attend SPX 2026.
Hello. It’s been a while. We missed you!
(Looks out onto the horizon)
It looks like our particular giant has awakened. It’s a very good giant and it asks for your attention:
"You don’t need to understand everything to be able to experience it." Laura Pérez discussed her artistic influences and the power of things unseen with Solrad! https://ow.ly/aPZZ50XWuMH
Paul Karasik, the artist who translated Paul Auster's New York Trilogy into graphic novel format, will be teaching an online class through Politics and Prose about his process on Jan. 15th. If you’ve ever been curious about the process of writing a graphic novel, this one’s for you!
Hi, we take down the newsletter option for a few months during our “off-season.” The service we use charges a monthly fee. As a non-profit, we opt to suspend it for a few months to cut costs. It will return once we begin ramping up for SPX ‘26.
photo of six pumpkins carved into glowing jack-o'-lanterns, in front of a brick wall. a large pumpkin has the cow tools cow carved into it and another large pumpkin has the barn. in front of them are 4 small pumpkins, each carved with one of the cow tools on them. the lump pumpkin has no stem and the prongler pumpkin is laid sideways so that the stem lines up and forms the bottom half of the prongler, it's top half carved into the pumpkin.
happy halloween i am ready to confuse some trick-or-treaters
The original Far Side Cow Tools Cartoon by Gary Larson. A cow stands on its hind legs behind a table, staring blankly at the viewer from behind its heavy brow ridge. On the table are four crudely made tools: a lump, a lump with an offset crooked handle, a long stick with hooked prongs at the end, and a crude handsaw with irregular teeth. In the background a barn sits on a hill. Caption reads, "Cow tools."
43 years ago today, readers the world over opened their newspapers and gazed upon cow tools for the first time. happy birthday cow tools. you look great.
Personally, I think the diminishing of the word, “Catsup” is a win for everyone.
Thank you for writing such a great piece!
I Traded Away for 111 Pieces of Art at the Pinboard of my Local Art Store
God, comic books are so good.
Many thanks to the grand human that is Thomas Campbell/ @comicsblogger.bsky.social who shot this 35mm photo of us after the final day of tabling our comics at this year's @smallpressexpo.bsky.social! Also, grab an issue of Comics Blogger! An essential zine on new indie comics!
www.comicsblogger.net
A fun three minute piece from @npr.org’s @ghweldon.bsky.social focusing on the mission of SPX.
Time to watch some YouTube vids!
