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Alternative Press Expo special guests announced
Abel, Madden, Ware, Braddock, and Kelso sign on for APE, Nov. 1-2 in San Francisco APE, the Alternative Press Expo, is still nine months away, but we’re hard at work inviting special guests to the new Fall version of the show. APE returns 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.
Jessica Abel Cartoonist 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.
Matt Madden Matt Madden started his comics 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 Ware Chris 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.
Jessica Abel and Matt Madden 6 Comic-Con Magazine • Winter 2008
Art (left) © 2008 Jessica Abel and Matt Madden; (above) © 2008 Chris Ware.