SPX, the favored Bethesda, Maryland conference for different and small press comics, has introduced that its table lottery utility interval will start midnight Monday, March 18. It additionally gave a timeline for the exhibitor utility course of. This yr’s SPX – its thirtieth anniversary yr – will happen September 14 and 15, 2024.
The SPX Executive Committee mentioned:
“The SPX 2024 Lottery will soon be upon us! Stay tuned to your Inbox (or possibly your Spam folder) as we are a week away from the lottery. The email notice and social media posts will be sent out at midnight March 18.”
The signup kind for exhibitor information relating to the lottery will be discovered right here.
Between March 18 and the deadline of March 31, hopeful exhibitors can apply for an opportunity to promote their comics-wares. The lottery choice itself will happen after the appliance interval closes March 31, so all ought to theoretically have an equal probability of being supplied a table. Exhibitors can ship in just one utility – with a warning that a number of purposes could result in a default rejection. Bear in thoughts that candidates should have proof that they’re cartoonists; social media and web sites can be checked. According to e mail notes:
“We will be checking to make sure you publish single panel cartoon and comics (minicomix/comics, graphic novels, anthologies, etc., etc.), so if you’re exclusively an illustrator, novelist, cosplayer or anime figure retailer (we get them) you will not be eligible for tables.”
The e mail added key dates within the exhibitor utility course of – although it famous there could also be delays “here and there”:
• Monday March 18: The lottery will open at Midnight Eastern Time
• March 31 – Lottery closes at 11:59PM Eastern Time
• April 15 – Lottery members contacted
• Mid-May – Table fee and lodge room block info despatched to all table holders
• June 5 – Payments due for all tables
• Mid-July – Table assignments despatched out, start to gather badge data and Debuts
Contact particulars for queries can be through [email protected].
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