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		<title>SPX 2012 registration is now open!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[We are locked and loaded for SPX 2012, to be held September 15 and 16 2012, at our favorite place, the North Bethesda Marriott Hotel and Convention Center. The registration form is now available and tables are being sold, first come, first serve. Tables rates and ordering information are all in the registration form.Do not forget [...]]]></description>
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		<title>SPX 2011 &#8211; Ignatz Awards</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Dustin Harbin hosts the 2011 Ignatz Awards! The Ignatz Awards, named for the character in the classic comic strip Krazy Kat by George Herriman, is a festival prize that recognizes outstanding achievement in comics and cartooning. The ballot is created by a panel of five cartoonists and is then voted on by the attendees at [...]]]></description>
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		<title>SPX 2011 &#8211; Navigating the Contemporary Publishing Landscape</title>
		<description><![CDATA[SPX 2011 &#8211; Navigating the Contemporary Publishing Landscape from Small Press Expo on Vimeo. In the early 2000s, corporate publishers nearly raced to acquire graphic novels. Now, as the mainstream publishing industry faces severe contractions and as online media assumes many traditional functions of publishing, cartoonists face a rapidly changing publishing landscape, one that includes [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.spxpo.com/spx-2011-navigating-the-contemporary-publishing-landscape</link>
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		<title>SPX Announces 2011 Ignatz Winners!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In order of presentation: Outstanding Mini Comic Ben Died of a Train, Box Brown Outstanding Anthology or Collection I Will Bite You, Joseph Lambert Outstanding Online Comic Hark! A Vagrant, Kate Beaton Promising New Talent Darryl Ayo Brathwaite Outstanding Story Browntown, Jaime Hernandez Outstanding Series Everything Dies, Box Brown Outstanding Comic Lose #3, Michael DeForge [...]]]></description>
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		<title>SPX 2011 &#8211; Images of the Body</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Comics have increasingly expressed personal experience, but have focused largely on inner life, depicting the human form via traditional, synthetic cartoon figuration. Moderator Craig Fischer speaks with Robyn Chapman (Hey 4-Eyes!, Make), Jennifer Hayden (Underwire), Gabby Schulz (Monsters), and Jen Vaughn (Don’t Hate, Menstruate!, Heavy Flow) about the ethics, erotics, and extremes involved in representing [...]]]></description>
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		<title>TCJ.com on our new Library of Congress Collection</title>
		<description><![CDATA[&#160; Dan Nadel had a chat with SPX Executive Director Warren Bernard about our new Library of Congress Collection. Check out the article here and learn more about the program here.]]></description>
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		<title>Washington City Paper Names SPX D.C.&#8217;s Best Comics Convention!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Special thanks to Washington City Paper and Mike Rhode for naming us Washington D.C.&#8217;s best comics convention!]]></description>
		<link>http://www.spxpo.com/washington-city-paper-names-spx-d-c-s-best-comics-convention</link>
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		<title>In Memory of Jeff Alexander</title>
		<description><![CDATA[It is with great sadness that SPX reports the passing of former SPX Executive Director and Ignatz Coordinator Jeff Alexander. Jeff Alexander and SPX have had a long and happy relationship together; in 1998, he joined Chris Oarr as part of the Ignatz Awards Committee, and became the Ignatz Awards Coordinator in 1999. In his [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.spxpo.com/in-memory-of-jeff-alexander</link>
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		<title>2010 Ignatz Award Recipients</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Outstanding Artist Eddie Campbell, Alec: The Years Have Pants (A Life-Sized Omnibus) (Top Shelf Productions) Outstanding Anthology or Collection Masterpiece Comics, R. Sikoryak (Drawn &#38; Quarterly) Outstanding Graphic Novel Market Day, James Sturm (Drawn &#38; Quarterly) Outstanding Story Monsters, Ken Dahl (Secret Acres) Promising New Talent Matt Wiegle, “The Orphan Baiter”, Papercutter #13 (Tugboat Press) [...]]]></description>
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		<title>2009 Ignatz Award Recipients</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Outstanding Artist Nate Powell, Swallow Me Whole (Top Shelf) Outstanding Anthology or Collection Kramer’s Ergot #7, ed. Sammy Harkham (Buenaventura) Outstanding Graphic Novel Acme Novelty Library #19, Chris Ware (Drawn &#38; Quarterly) Outstanding Story “Willy,” Papercutter #10, Damien Jay (Tugboat) Promising New Talent Colleen Frakes, Woman King (self-published) Outstanding Series Uptight, Jordan Crane (Fantagraphics) Outstanding [...]]]></description>
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