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Wednesday, August 27, 2014

Cavna: SPX 2014: From alt-weekly to webcomics, Small Press Expo announces programming slate…

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SATURDAY’S PROGRAMMING


Alt-Weekly Comics Roundtable (noon-1 p.m.)


Until recently the media landscape has been augmented by alternative weekly newspapers. Beginning with the Village Voice in the 1950s and including a wave of papers in the 1980s and 1990s, alt-weekly newspapers used a mass media format to provide readers with an independent voice—and independent comics. In a historic panel conversation, cartoonist and Seattle Stranger co-founder James Sturm will discuss the phenomenon of comics in alternative weekly newspapers with a panel of the form’s most important practitioners: Jules Feiffer, Lynda Barry, Ben Katchor, Charles Burns, and Tom Tomorrow.


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