Here’s me doing my favorite thing (drinking coffee)

Simon Robrock at the Silver Sprocket table at SMALL PRESS EXPO Photo:Meg Lemke

Kristal Adams Sapolsky at the Fairsquare table at SMALL PRESS EXPO Photo: Meg Lemke

LIVE! From SMALL PRESS EXPO it's a new episode of Four Women in a Hotel Room with A M Y C H U #donutkiller 👽 and me. We chat about the VA Comicon and SPX, storytelling, whether we still need the Hero's Journey and much more! soundcloud.com/heidi-macdonal…

I am at a secret unauthorized SPX panel called Comics a Failed Medium. It’s not but a spirited discussion. Talking a lot at the show and in general about professions that have died, like illustrators and political comic strip artists.

A very happy birthday to the great Mike Mignola

2024 Ignatz Award Winners Announced | @spxcomics bit.ly/3TyQ1U6

Cartoonists (l. to r.) Alison Conway, Jonah Newman, and Ellen Lindner at @spxcomics Photo: Meg Lemke

NYRC's Alex Ransom (l.) and cartoonist Dash Shaw, author of 'Blurry,' 'Discipline' and other graphic novels, at the New York Review Comics table at the SPX comics festival over the weekend. @spxcomics Photo: Meg Lemke

The Freedom to Read Issue: All Our Coverage bit.ly/4decPPQ

Memorial Service For Ramona Fradon Being Held At Baltimore Comic Con bleedingcool.com/comics/memoria… via Bleeding Cool

A Letter from the Editor: The Freedom to Read Issue bit.ly/3B2HIJQ

Here are a few more pages from SPECTRUM issue 1 that premiered late last week. Hit up your local comic shop and have them preorder* it! *if you're not in-the-know, the preorder mechanism for the comics industry is REALLY important, esp for an indie book like this. Get to it!

The SPX Group Chat is tired but feeling incredibly grateful. As we were doing one last sweep of The Ballroom, we came across these incredibly kind notes left behind on the exhibitor tables. We can’t thank you all enough for being a part of this incredible weekend.

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Hey friends, I'm hosting a NEW CREATOR BREAKFAST at New York Comic Con this year for new / young / inexperienced comic creators. If you want to meet and talk shop with peers, pros, and publishers, apply here: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAI…

Cartoonist Allison Conway at her table on the floor of #SPX2024 this past weekend. Photo: Meg Lemke.

IT'S BACK 💥 The NYCC Program Guide has made its grand reappearance with an epic cover from Marvel's Alessandro Cappuccio & Jesus Aburtov. Join Alessandro all weekend long in Artist Alley & get your Program Guide signed 👀Tickets are selling out quickly: nycomic24.com/buytickets

Michael Kelly Joins Boom! Studios as Publisher. PRH finalizes Boom! Acquisition bit.ly/3BgBqWO

More to Come Podcast 639: Interviews at the Small Press Expo 2024. Heidi and Meg talk with Robyn Smith (‘Night Fever’), Luke Healy (‘Self Esteem,’ and ‘End of the World’), Beth Hetland (‘Tender’), Tara Booth (‘Processing’), and Sig Burwash (‘Vera Bushwack’). | @spxcomics