SPX Sunday pairs Fantagraphics at fifty with DIY comics

The September 13 programme includes a publisher anniversary panel, Frog Farm readings and a practical discussion of independent publishing.

Small Press Expo’s final day, Sunday, September 13 , runs from noon to 6pm at the Bethesda North Marriott Hotel & Conference Center in Rockville, Maryland. The organiser’s Sunday programme opens with Fantagraphics at Fifty , scheduled for 12:30–1:30pm in the White Oak Room. John Kelly moderates a conversation with

Carol Tyler, Kim Deitch, Leah Hayes, Noah Van Sciver and Peter Bagge about the publisher’s half-century in comics. Independent publishing on Sunday For a smaller-press discovery stop, Frog Farm: Comics Readings runs 3–4pm in Brookside C. Alexander Laird hosts Grayson Bear, Josh Bayer, Christina Lee and Steve Wolfhard

for the risograph publisher’s SPX gathering. That room then hosts No One Is Going to Save You: Maintaining DIY and Traditional Publishing , from 4–5pm. Cuyler Hedlund joins Nicole Goux, Maria Hoey, Jared Cullum and Brian Brown to discuss sustaining work across self-directed and conventional publishing. Times are local

to the Maryland venue. These are programme listings, not reports from the sessions. The SPX attendance page links to tickets, travel information and the full exhibitor and debut-book lists. Headline image: Sanika Phawde / Small Press Expo. Official promotional material from the linked source.

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