Maryland, Yo
Here we are a little more than two weeks out from SPX — to be held 16 and 17 September in Bethesda, Maryland¹, and I’m eager to talk to you about the programming slate, which is always well-curated and humanely paced. Unfortunately, it’s not posted yet.
More precisely, the schedule of events is not posted, but SPX did give us a fairly extensive list of highlights. Traditionally, SPX runs two programming rooms, one panel in each, on offset schedules. Maybe six events per room on each of two days, for a total of a two dozen or so panels (plus the Ignatz Awards and dance party on Saturday night). And at least eight of those two dozen or so panels have had descriptions released. Highlights include:
- Last year’s multiple honoree and current hot creator du jour Tillie Walden talking about her new book, Spinning, with SPX executive director Warren Bernard.
- Perennial favorites Jillian Tamaki and Eleanor Davis in conversation with Jim Rugg.
- MacArthur Fellow and National Ambassador for Young People’s Literature Gene Luen Yang discussing his Reading Without Walls initiative with Johanna Draper Carlson.
- Political cartoonists Ann Telnaes (current NCS honoree for political cartoons, plus a Pulitzer), Matt Wuerker (also a Pulitzer alum), Keith Knight (Glyph and Harvey awards), and Ben Passmore talking with The Spurge the reality of political cartooning in the current climate.
Plus Sikoryak! Heidi Mac! Shannon Wheeler! 2dcloud! Jeremy Sorese! And many more! I’ma guess sometime between now and this time next week, we’ll have the proper schedule, until then, prepare for your time in Bethesda, and don’t forget to stock up on Faygo.
Know who else you’ll find in Maryland, on account of he lives there? Jamie Noguchi. When you see him at SPX, he’ll be halfway done with his Tokutember project, about which we now have some details. Check it:
Starting September 1, I’m going to kick off a little art project called Tokutember. It’s like daily drawing or Inktober or any other drawing challenge, except it’s tokusatsu themed! I’ll be posting my daily creations here as well as twitter and instagram with the hashtag #tokutember. Please feel free to join in on the fun!
That link takes you to the main Tokutember site with the details: from now on, September is Tokutember, and every year will have an appropriate theme. For 2017, the theme is insects, so draw something (in the theme or not, he’s not your boss), post it, and repeat at whatever interval you desire.
Noguchi will post his contributions at the site, and he’s included handy sosh–meeds links to tags so you can find all the best kaiju, rangers, and other effects-heavy Japanese entertainment tributes.
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Up to 1200 what? Is this one of those over 9000 deals?
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¹ Coincidentally, the same weekend as the Juggalo March on nearby Washington, DC.
I read that spam of the day as “Get up AT 1200 as soon as tomorrow”, and thought they must really be targeting late sleepers.
By David Morgan-Mar on 08.30.17 6:05 pm
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