2013 SPX Debuts Part 2

The Small Press Expo, North America’s Premiere Independent Cartooning and Comic Arts Festival is just around the corner!

Come September 14th-15th, droves of CCS students, alumni and faculty will be headed down to both attend the show and sell their work. Among those selling there work, many will be debuting new work!

Here are a few more of the CCS books that will be debuting at the show.

Ghosts & Pizza – Colleen Frakes (Class of 2007)

Ghosts & Pizza is the third comic that C. Frakes has drawn about McNeil Island. When you live on a prison island, there are a lot of ghosts and it is really difficult to get a pizza delivered.

Monday Saddies – Steve Seck (Class of 2009)

Wow! Monday Saddies #2! Featuring comics about stoned ghosts, the adventures of random locker junk & God! Still not for kids! It’s 28 pages, zany fun!

Mezmer – Jon Chad (Faculty)

The events that gild the age of MEZMER will, at first glance, appear to be disconnected and barely strung together through the appearance of certain reoccurring characters.  Be assured by the author, though, that the bonds of friendship and duty tie the denizens of MEZMER together.

In this volume, Maxer introduces himself and extends the rarest of honors to the reader; a glimpse at his articles of being.  Mumfot and Ferls clash in terrible conflict!  Mumfot’s laser matrix blooms in a beautiful and intricate display of his power.  Ferls lashes back with the ghostly powers of his Doombox, but his power wanes in Mumfot’s mighty presence.  Warrock wanders the galaxy trying to fuel his crystalline core, and find sustenance in the battle between two friends.  Ferls and Bluebell take advantage of their advisory’s temporary absence.

Mezmer: New Friend for Bluebell – Jon Chad (Faculty)

Jon Chad will also have little minicomic about one of his favorite MEZMER characters, Bluebell!  It started out simply as a book about Bluebell flying around and having fun, but it morphed into a story about how she met Ferls.  It’s also about body positivity!!  It comes in a ziplock bag with an original drawing from Bluebell to Ferls.

 Leo Geo and the Long Snake! – Jon Chad (Faculty)

Leo Geo and the Long Snake! is a re-drawing of the original Leo Geo comic Jon Chad drew back in 2007 when he was trying out the idea of a continuous visual canvas.  Up until now, there has only been one hand drawn version in existence. No longer will it only exist on Jon Chad’s shelf!

Now, you too can read Leo Geo and the Long Snake! and not understand how a snake’s anatomy works!

A Duck, Amonster, A Baby, An Elephant, An Alien and Vaudeville – David Yoder (Class of 2010)

These six stories by David Yoder all feature an outsider of one type or another.

Lou is a duck just trying to get by at his new school, Bordoom is a monster composed of many corpses, a giant naked baby shows up in a small Midwestern town and no one is sure what he wants, Elephano is an elephant waiting tables to pay for his magic habit, Louis is an alien monitoring the melting ice caps and Mr. Ryland and Mr. Yoder want to make it big as vaudevillians but first they have to get along.

This is a 254 page collection of stories!

Burn the Bridges of Arta – Amelia Onerato  (Class of 2012)

Amelia Onerato’s story takes place in an AU 1920s/30s American city, where aesthetic architecture is considered the highest form of art and architects are the considered the highest echelon of society. Apollonia Ford, youngest daughter of famed architect E. William Ford, has been trying to track down the location of her older sister Elektra after her marriage last year. When Apollonia finds out that family handyman Orie Foster knows Elektra’s whereabouts, she uncovers more than she bargained for about the nature and sacrifice of architecture and the Ideology of Arta.

 Annotated 11 – Aaron Cockle (Class of 2009) 

Annotated 11 will contain essay comix, ‘assemblage’, and various zine aspects.