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2008 Guest ListAPE, the Alternative Press Expo, Announces Special Guests for 2008!APE, the Alternative Press Expo, is gearing up for its new Fall 2008 dates, returning to its "home" of many years, the Concourse in San Francisco on November 1 and 2. The following alternative comics superstars have already confirmed their attendance as special guests! 
Jessica AbelCartoonist and writer Jessica Abel is the author of the graphic novel La Perdida. Previously, she published Soundtrack and Mirror, Window, two collections that gather stories and drawings from her comic book Artbabe, which she published between 1992 and 1999. Abel won both the Harvey and Lulu awards for "Best New Talent" in 1997; La Perdida won the 2002 "Best New Series" Harvey Award. Abel's Young Adult novel Carmina is forthcoming from HarperCollins; she is collaborating on another graphic novel, Life Sucks, due out from First Second; and she is working with her husband, the cartoonist Matt Madden, on a textbook about making comics. She lives in Brooklyn with Madden and their baby daughter, Aldara.
Paige BraddockPaige Braddock graduated from the University of Tennessee with a degree in graphic design and illustration. She worked as an illustrator for several newspapers, including the Chicago Tribune and The Atlanta Constitution. Paige created Jane's World while working as an illustrator for the Chicago Tribune. It would take ten more years for Jane's World to be launched as a comic book, and in 2006 the book received an Eisner nomination for best humor book. Currently, Paige lives in Northern California where she does double duty as creator of Jane's World and creative director for Charles Schulz's (Peanuts) studio in Santa Rosa.
Megan KelsoMegan Kelso was born in 1968 in Seattle, Washington where she lived on and off for 33 years. Then she moved to Brooklyn, New York with her husband. She's been drawing comics for 11 years and plans to continue doing so until she is an old, old lady. Her books include Girlhero, Queen of the Black Black, Scheherazade: Stories of Love, Treachery, Mothers, and Monsters, and The Squirrel Mother.
Matt MaddenMatt Madden started his comic career producing mini comics. His graphic novels include Black Candy and A Fine Mess and he's also written and illustrated the textbook, 99 Ways to Tell A Story, which retells the same one-page comics story 99 different ways. In addition to their "greatest collaboration," their new baby girl, Aldara, Madden and wife Jessica Abel are also collaborating on a comics textbook, Drawing Words and Writing Pictures, due out in June, and editing the 2008 volume of the "Best American Comics" series, due out in the Fall.
Chris WareChris Ware is the author of Jimmy Corrigan - the Smartest Kid on Earth and the annual progenitor of the amateur periodical The ACME Novelty Library. An irregular contributor to The New Yorker and The Virginia Quarterly Review, Mr. Ware was the first cartoonist chosen to regularly serialize an ongoing story in The New York Times Magazine in 2005-2006. He edited the 13th issue of McSweeney's Quarterly Concern in 2004 as well as Houghton-Mifflin's Best American Comics for 2007, and his work was the focus of an exhibit at the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago in 2006. |
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NOVEMBER 1-2
(Sat & Sun)
at
The Concourse
620 7th Street
San Francisco
directions
(Sat & Sun)
at
The Concourse
620 7th Street
San Francisco
directions
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