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2012 Guest ListNEWEST ADDITIONSAPE, the Alternative Press Expo, Announces Special Guests for 2012!The Alternative Press Expo (APE) returns to the Concourse Exhibition Center in San Francisco on October 13 and 14, 2012. Already signed on as special guests for the event are: 
Sergio AragonésCartoonist, Groo, MAD, Sergio Aragonés FunniesOne of MAD magazine's longest-running cartoonists (only Al Jaffee has been around longer) and the creator of dim-witted barbarian Groo the Wanderer, Sergio Aragonés is one of comics' most popular creators. Most recently, the man some call the world's fastest cartoonist launched his own monthly comic book series at Bongo Comics, Sergio Aragonés Funnies. 
Eric DrookerAuthor/Artist, Flood, Blood SongEric Drooker is a painter and graphic novelist, born and raised on Manhattan Island. He's the award-winning author of Flood! A Novel in Pictures, and Blood Song: A Silent Ballad. He designed the animation for the recent film, Howl, a movie based on the epic poem by Allen Ginsberg, who collaborated with Drooker on the book Illuminated Poems, and the new Howl: A Graphic Novel. His paintings appear often on covers of The New Yorker, and hang in numerous collections. For more info, visit www.Drooker.com. 
Gilbert HernandezWriter/Artist, Love and RocketsGilbert Hernandez, the co-creator of Love and Rockets with his two brothers, was born in Oxnard, CA, seemingly with a comic book in his hand. His mother allowed him and his siblings to read comics because she loved comics as a child herself. He learned to draw his own minimalist comics at age 5, which eventually evolved into the comics he does now. He's produced comics for almost every major comics company but prefers to do more personal work, as he believes that comics are a great place for self-expression. His career spans 30 years, and he plans to go as far as he can with our beloved medium. 
Jaime HernandezWriter/Artist, Love and RocketsAs a young aimless Latino punk rocker, Jaime Hernandez, along with his brothers Gilbert and Mario, self-published the first issue of Love and Rockets in 1981. It was picked up by Fantagraphics Books in 1982 and ran 50 issues before the brothers took a break to pursue solo projects. Jaime's titles included Whoa, Nellie!, Maggie and Hopey Color Fun, and Penny Century. Love And Rockets was revived in 2000 and still continues today. Outside of L&R, Jaime has also done other comic work, magazine illustration, and album covers. He lives in Altadena, CA with his wife and daughter. 
Mario HernandezWriter/Artist, Love and RocketsComics histories, newspaper strips, cartoon collections, paperbacks, trading cards, monster magazines and movies, rock and roll, cheesy TV shows and cartoons, and a whole bunch of funny books -- all contributed to the launch of Mario Hernandez and his brothers Gilbert and Jaime's self-published fanzine Love and Rockets. In addition to contributing some stories to L&R, Mario has produced a plethora of freelance work for various underground and alternative anthologies -- Rip-off Comics, Buzzard, Real Girl, and Measles -- culminating in a one-shot collection, Brain Capers. His latest project was Citizen Rex for Dark Horse with brother Gilbert. It was included in The Best Comics of 2010 anthology. 
Ben KatchorWriter/Artist, Julius Knipl, The Cardboard ValiseBen Katchor's picture-stories and drawings have appeared in Metropolis Magazine, The New Yorker, and other newspapers and magazines. His books include Julius Knipl, Real Estate Photographer, The Beauty Supply District, The Jew of New York, and The Cardboard Valise (all Pantheon Books). He is the recipient of a Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowship and a MacArthur Foundation Fellowship. He has collaborated with musician Mark Mulcahy on four music-theater productions, most recently Up from the Stacks. He is an associate professor at Parsons, The New School in New York City. For more information visit www.katchor.com. 
Miriam LibickiWriter/Artist, jobnik!Miriam Libicki was born in Columbus, Ohio. After living in Jerusalem and Seattle, she is now based in Vancouver, BC. She completed her BFA at Emily Carr University in 2006, where she currently teaches a class on graphic memoir. She is the creator of the comics series jobnik!, and the drawn essays Towards a Hot Jew, ceasefire, fierce ease, and Jewish Memoir Goes Pow! Zap! Oy! (published in The Jewish Graphic Novel: Critical Approaches, from Rutgers University Press, 2008). 
Jim WoodringWriter/Artist, Jim, WeathercraftJim Woodring was born in Los Angeles in 1952 and enjoyed a childhood full of poetry and perturbation among the snakes and tarantulas of the San Gabriel mountains. A self-taught artist, his works include autobiographical comics, wordless cartoon stories, anecdotal charcoal drawings, and the sculptures, vinyl figures, fabrics, and gallery installations that have been made from his designs. His multimedia collaborations with the musician Bill Frisell won them a United States Artists Fellowship in 2006. His 2010 book Weathercraft won The Stranger's 2010 Genius Award for literature was a finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize. He lives in Seattle with his family and residual phenomena and on jimwoodring.com. |
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