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APE 2009 Wows San Francisco Comics Fans!
APE -- the Alternative Press Expo -- once again opened to capacity crowds at San
Francisco's Concourse Exhibition Center the weekend of October 17 and 18. The
2009 edition of the indie comics event -- one of the largest in the
country -- featured over 325 exhibitors in an amazing Exhibit Hall,
filled with the very best in alternative comics, art, zines, and DIY stuff.
The special guest roster for APE 2009 featured
Jamaica Dyer (Weird Fishes, courtesy SLG),
Phoebe Gloeckner (A Child's Life),
Dean Haspiel (Billy Dogma),
Batton Lash (Supernatural Law),
Lark Pien (Long Tail Kitty),
Dash Shaw (Bottomless Belly Button), and
Jeff Smith (Bone, Rasl).
The programming schedule
included spotlight panels on all of APE's special guests, plus panels devoted to
webcomics, the San Francisco comics and art scene, "Personal Stories"
(autobiographical graphic novels), the annual APE queer cartoonists event, Keith
Knight's "Indie Cartoonist Survival Guide," R. Sikoryak and Isabel Samaras's
"Pop Perversity: Parody in Comics," and the CBLDF Live Art Battle, featuring
Jeff Smith, Dean Haspiel, Larry Marder, and other artists in a lively tag-team
sketch-off that had to be seen to be believed.
The Alternative Press Expo remains one of the highlights of the nation's comic
book convention schedule. It's an incredible oasis of creativity, devoted
entirely to the output of indie cartoonists and publishers doing the thing they
love most. APE comes back to San Francisco and the Concourse, October 16-17,
2010, for its 17th big show. Plan now to be there!
APE Returns to San Francisco October 16-17, 2010!
One of the country's most popular and vibrant alternative comics shows returns
to its San Francisco home, The Concourse Exhibition Center, for another two big
days of fall fun next October. APE, the Alternative Press Expo, rolls into the
city by the bay on October 16 and 17, 2010.
Get the latest news and information about APE 2010 from our APE news feed and by following us
on Twitter.
Comic-Con International, which produces the Alternative Press
Expo, is a nonprofit educational corporation dedicated to creating
awareness of and appreciation for comics and related popular art forms,
primarily through the presentation of conventions and events that
celebrate the historic and ongoing contribution of comics to art and
culture.
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