APE - Alternative Press Expo, October 16-17, 2010, at the Concourse Exhibition Center in San Francisco, CA
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APE, the Alternative Press Expo, Announces Special Guests for 2010!


APE 2010 once again features an incredibly diverse guest list from the world of alternative and indie comics.

Lynda Barry

Lynda Barry

Writer/Artist, Ernie Pook's Comeek, What It Is

Lynda Barry has worked as a painter, cartoonist, writer, illustrator, playwright, editor, commentator, and teacher and has found they are all very much alike. She has been at the forefront of alternative comics as the inimitable creator behind the syndicated strip Ernie Pook's Comeek, featuring the incomparable Marlys and Freddy, and is the author of the bestselling and Eisner Award–winning What It Is. Her other work includes One! Hundred! Demons!; The! Greatest! of! Marlys!; Cruddy: An Illustrated Novel; and Naked Ladies! Naked Ladies! Naked Ladies! In Fall 2010, Drawn & Quarterly will publish the follow-up to What It Is, titled Picture This: The Nearsighted Monkey Book. Lynda teaches a writing workshop called "Writing the Unthinkable" in cities across the country. She lives with her husband, Kevin Kawula, in rural Wisconsin, where they have a native plant nursery.



Daniel Clowes

Daniel Clowes

Writer/Artist, Ghost World, Eightball, Wilson

Daniel Clowes is the cartoonist of Ghost World, David Boring, Ice Haven, Like a Velvet Glove Cast in Iron, Caricature, and 20th Century Eightball, collected from his seminal comic book series Eightball. In Spring 2010, Drawn & Quarterly will publish Wilson, the company's first book with Clowes, and his first original graphic novel. Clowes is a regular cover artist for the New Yorker and an illustrator/designer of many books, movie posters, and magazines. He is the only cartoonist to be the recipient of multiple Harvey, Eisner, and Ignatz Awards as well as the distinct honor of an Academy Award nomination for Best Adapted Screenplay for Ghost World.



Renée French

Renée French

Writer/Artist, The Soap Lady, H Day

Renée French has been making comics since the early 1990s. Her books include The Ticking, Micrographica, Edison Steelhead's Lost Portfolio, and The Soap Lady. She divides her time between the US and Australia. In H Day, her first graphic novel in four years, the artist illustrates her struggles with migraine headaches and Argentine Ant infestation through her haunting pencil drawings. A sweeping, often tense narrative of invasion, repulsion and liberation, H Day can be read both as an oblique autobiography and as a suspenseful fantasy story. This volume showcases the qualities that led Myla Goldberg, author of Bee Season, to call Renée French "that rare gift among artists -- one whose work finds its way into the most guarded corners of our psyches and allows us to revel in all that is awkward, embarrassing or sticky about being alive." H Day premieres at APE.

Courtesy PictureBox



Megan Kelso

Megan Kelso

Writer/Artist, Artichoke Tales, The Squirrel Mother

Megan Kelso was born in Seattle, WA in 1968. In 1993, she was awarded a Xeric grant to self-publish her own comic book, Girlhero. In 1998 Highwater Books published a collection of short stories taken from that series, titled Queen of the Black Black, which Fantagraphics will republish in 2011. The Squirrel Mother, her second collection of short stories, was published in 2006. In 2002, a mini-comic excerpt of her first graphic novel, Artichoke Tales, won two Ignatz Awards (for Best Mini-Comic and Outstanding Artist). In 2010, Fantagraphics published the long-awaited complete graphic novel to great acclaim.

Courtesy Fantagraphics



Rich Koslowski

Rich Koslowski

Writer/Artist, The 3 Geeks, The King

Rich Koslowski is best known for his fan-friendly comic book series The 3 Geeks (later Geeksville), which received three Eisner Award nominations. He also wrote and illustrated the much-lauded graphic novel Three Fingers in 2002 (published by Top Shelf Productions), which won the coveted Ignatz Award for Outstanding Graphic Novel and was named as one of the "500 Essential Graphic Novels" in the book of the same name in 2008. Other publications include The King (2005), The List (2007), and Weapon Omega (Marvel 2008). In May 2010 his newest graphic novel (written by J. D. Arnold), BB Wolf And The 3 L.P.s, will be released.



Tommy Kovac

Tommy Kovac

Writer/Artist, Stitch; Writer, The Royal Historian of Oz

Tommy Kovac has been writing and illustrating comics since 1999. He has written & illustrated the original series, Stitch, Skelebunnies, and Autumn. Currently Kovac is writing The Royal Historian of OZ, also for SLG, and illustrated by Andy Hirsch. Kovac is no stranger to reinventing or extending classic literature for comics having written Wonderland for SLG's Disney line of comics, telling the story of what happened in Wonderland after Alice went home. Wonderland was released to much critical acclaim and the hardcover collection published by Disney Press was named one of the ten best graphic novels for teens by the Young Adult Library Services Association.

Courtesy SLG



Tony Millionaire

Tony Millionaire

Writer/Artist, Maakies, Sock Monkey

Tony Millionaire was born in Boston and grew up in Gloucester, Massachusetts. He writes and draws the ongoing adventures of Sock Monkey, published by Dark Horse Comics since 1998. Tony is the creator of the syndicated comic strip Maakies, which has been collected by Fantagraphics, which also published his graphic novel Billy Hazelnuts. Maakies has been adapted to the small screen as The Drinky Crow Show for Cartoon Network's Adult Swim.




 

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