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A LOOK BACK AT APE 20092009 Guest ListAPE, the Alternative Press Expo, Announces Special Guests for 2009!APE 2009 once again features an incredibly diverse guest list from the world of alternative and indie comics. Check back for additional guests! 
Jamaica Dyerwriter/artist, Weird FishesJamaica Dyer has been drawing to entertain herself since she was very little. She became obsessed with Catwoman at a young age, began working in a comic store as a teen and then started making her own books. Her photocopied comics graced Bay Area convention floors for years, and she collaborated in anthologies like Dark Horse MySpace Presents 3, Spark Generators 2, and Juicy Mother 2. One day she hopes to get into a first edition of an anthology. Her latest work, Weird Fishes, is a surreal coming of age story that she published online in 2008 and is now a new graphic novel published by SLG and debuting at APE 2009. When not drawing or dreaming about comics, Jamaica's animating Flash cartoons as a freelance artist in the Bay Area. Courtesy SLG Publishing 
Phoebe Gloecknerwriter/artist, A Child's LifePhoebe Gloeckner is the author of A Child's Life and Other Stories (1998) and The Diary of a Teenage Girl (2002), called "one of the most brutally honest, shocking, tender and beautiful portrayals of growing up female in America." (salon.com) A recipient of a 2008-09 Guggenheim Fellowship, Phoebe is working on a novel based on the lives of several families in Ciudad Juárez, Mexico. The ideas for the book were conceived while working on a short piece about an epidemic of violent crime in Juárez for I Live Here (Pantheon, 2008). Gloeckner is an assistant professor at the University of Michigan. 
Dean Haspielwriter/artist, Billy DogmaNative New Yorker Dean Haspiel is the creator of Billy Dogma and the webcomix collective ACT-I-VATE. Dean has drawn for Marvel, DC, and Dark Horse Comics, including Pulitzer Prize–winning Michael Chabon's The Escapist, and is best known for his collaborations with Harvey Pekar on The Quitter and American Splendor. Recently, Dean drew The Alcoholic, an original graphic novel collaboration with author Jonathan Ames and, Mo & Jo: Fighting Together Forever, a Toon Book collaboration with underground comix legend Jay Lynch for Raw Jr. Dean currently edits Next-Door Neighbor for SMITHmag.net and produces Street Code, a semi-autobiographical webcomic for Zudacomics.com. 
Batton Lashwriter/artist, Supernatural LawBatton Lash is the creator, writer and artist of the long-running series Supernatural Law (AKA Wolff & Byrd, Counselors of the Macabre), which appears in comic books, trade paperbacks, and a twice-weekly webcomic (www.supernaturallaw.com). He also writes and draws Mavis, featuring Wolff & Byrd's intrepid secretary. Lash is the writer of Archie: Freshman Year for Archie Comics and this summer's crossover "event" for Bongo Comics featuring The Simpsons and Radioactive Man. Born and raised in Brooklyn, NY, Lash now lives in San Diego with his wife, Jackie Estrada, and their two cats. 
Lark Pienwriter/artist, Long Tail KittyWhen she was young, Lark Pien read The Peanuts at her Sunset Gma's, Old Master Q at her Chinatown Gma's, and The Uncanny X-Men at her cousins' house in the Richmond. She also frequented the San Francisco Zoo, the De Young and the Legion of Honor. Pien began producing her own minis in 1997, such stories as Long Tail Kitty, Mr. Boombha and Stories from the Ward. Pien has received the Friends of Lulu Kim Yale award for Long Tail Kitty and the Harvey for coloring work on American Born Chinese. The San Francisco Cartoon Art Museum featured her works in the I Am Ten exhibit, in 2007-2008. Pien is currently working on a children's book based on her mini Brave Mr. Elephanter, with Candlewick Press, and a graphic novel with First Second Books. Long Tail Kitty, published by Blue Apple Books, is her first hard cover storybook. 
Dash Shawwriter/artist, Bottomless Belly ButtonDash Shaw was born in Los Angeles, in 1983. He made numerous comics and zines while a BFA student at the School of Visual Arts in New York City. Since graduating, he's done the surreal family comedy Bottomless Belly Button, published by Fantagraphics Books last year, and the Eisner-nominated telepathy comedy BodyWorld, which can be read in its entirety online at www.dashshaw.com, and which will be published in book form by Pantheon Books next year. He is also a regular contributor to the quarterly comics anthology Mome and an occasional animator and painter. He currently lives in Brooklyn, New York. 
Jeff Smithwriter/artist, BONE, RASLBorn and raised in the American midwest, Jeff Smith learned about cartooning from reading comic strips and comic books and watching animation on TV. In 1991, he launched a company called Cartoon Books to publish his comic book BONE, a comedy/adventure about three lost cousins from Boneville. Against all odds, the small company flourished, building a reputation for quality stories and artwork. Winning numerous awards and legions of fans all over the world, BONE also appeared as a full-color edition, published by Scholastic Press's Graphix imprint. Smith's latest work includes his new self-published series, RASL. Jeff lives in Columbus, Ohio, with his wife, Vijaya Iyer. |
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APE 2010
will be heldSaturday, Oct. 16
to
Sunday, Oct. 17
The Concourse
620 7th Street
San Francisco
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