E. J. Barnes's Comics - Drowned Town Press returns to Small Press Expo

2010-09-06T09:06:03Z

Drowned Town Press and artist/writer E. J. Barnes return this coming weekend to the Small Press Expo (SPX) in Bethesda, Maryland, just north of Washington, DC. The show is open to the public for two days, Saturday and Sunday, 11 and 12 September, at the Marriott Bethesda North Hotel and Conference Center.

Expo hours are 11am--7pm Saturday and Noon--6pm Sunday. Admission is $10 for one day and $15 for the whole weekend.

SPX is a major small-press and independent-comic show held annually. It is large of its kind, but not the sort of three-ring circus you may imagine if all you know of comic book conventions is the TV footage of Comic-Con San Diego. No blockbuster movie previews. No huge booths from DC, Marvel, and Image. No tables packed with long boxes of "bronze-age" back issues. Just independent comics and zines -- the big publishers here are outfits like Fantagraphics and Top Shelf, the big-name cartoonists are folks such as Jaime Hernandez, Keith Knight, and Raina Telgemeier, and the majority of exhibitors are self-publishers and small collectives.

This year, the program includes the first annual Small Press Expo Animation Showcase!

The Marriott Bethesda North Hotel and Conference Center is at 5701 Marinelli Road, one block west of the White Flint Metro stop.

For more information on SPX, see http://www.spxpo.com . For more about the Marriott Bethesda North, see: http://www.marriott.com/hotels/travel/wasbn-bethesda-north-marriott-hotel-and-conference-center .

E. J. Barnes's Comics - Third Ling collection to première at MoCCA ArtFest

2010-04-06T15:17:51Z

Those of you who will be in New York City this weekend may be planning to attend MoCCA ArtFest, the annual celebration of independent and small-press comics. Moving up from summer to spring, this year's ArtFest is Saturday and Sunday, 10--11 April, 11am--6pm both days. The 2010 MoCCA ArtFest returns to the historic 69th Regiment Armory at 68 Lexington Avenue in Manhattan, between 25th and 26th Streets.

Drowned Town Press will be at MoCCA ArtFest with the third and final Ling Master Collection, Blaster Al Ackerman's Tales of the Ling Master #3. This collection includes not only updated art from Ling Master Preview #3, "The Squid Boys of Terre Haute," but two completely new Ling stories: "Ask Ling: Two Parables" and perhaps the most shocking Ling story ever, "The Blue Catfish." (Ling Master creator Blaster Al Ackerman, upon seeing the pencils for "The Blue Catfish", described the art for those pages as having "an eerie beauty and interest all its own.")

For more information on MoCCA ArtFest, see: http://www.moccany.org/content/mocca-festival For more information on the 69th Regiment Armory, see: http://www.sixtyninth.net/armory.html For more information on the Museum of Comic and Cartoon Art (organizers of MoCCA ArtFest), see: http://www.moccany.org