SPX continues to ramp up bulletins for its September 2023 version – and right here come the international special company. Prospective attendees can now count on to see Ana Penyas (Spain), Paul Gravett (UK), Jillian and Mariko Tamaki (Canada), Reinhard Kleist (Germany), and Michael Cherkas (Ukraine-Canada) on the present this yr, happening the weekend of September 9-10.
The guest breakdown:
- Ana Penyas (Spain)’s 2018 graphic novel Estamos todas bien [We’re All Just Fine] has simply been revealed in English from Fantagraphics. It is a graphic biography of Penya’s grandmothers who bore witness to fascist Spain in the time and the turbulence of the late Nineteen Seventies and Eighties.
- Paul Gravett (UK) is – in keeping with the PR – making his first US comics pageant look at SPX 2023. An authority on all issues comics and holder of many cap feathers – he has been a writer, pageant runner (co-founder of Comica), exhibition curator and author. His newest ebook is a monograph of Finnish Moomin creator Tove Jansson for Thames & Hudson’s The Illustrators collection.
- Jillian and Mariko Tamaki (Canada) – collaborators of critically acclaimed, award profitable comics. This September will see the discharge of their much-anticipated third collaboration following Skim and This One Summer with queer romance Roaming from Drawn & Quarterly
- Reinhard Kleist (Germany) has made a reputation for himself producing standout graphic biographies of such personalities as musicians Johnny Cash, Nick Cave; political chief Fidel Castro; sportspeople Harry Haft, Emile Griffith and Samia Yusuf Omar. He has now turned to depicting the life and profession of David Bowie – extra particularly the rise and fall of his Ziggy Stardust persona in a multipart graphic novel, the primary instalment of which has simply launched in English from SelfMadeHero
- Michael Cherkas (Ukraine-Canada) is the co-author and artist of The Silent Invasion, The Purple Ray (with Larry Hancock), Suburban Nightmares (Larry Hancock and John van Bruggen), and The New Frontier (with John Sabli’c). Red Harvest – coming later this yr – is his first full size graphic novel as sole creator, telling a fictional story based mostly on actual occasions and tales referring to the Ukrainian famine induced by the Soviet Union in winter 1932-33 and the deep scars it has left on reminiscence.
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