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The Small Press Expo (SPX) is an American alternative comics convention.A registered 501(c)(3) that was created in 1994, every year since its inception, SPX has put on a festival, known as The Expo, that provides a forum for artists, writers and publishers of comic art in its various forms to present their creations to the public and to expose the public to comic art not normally accessible ...
The Small Press and Alternative Comics Expo, or SPACE or S.P.A.C.E., is an annual convention in Columbus, Ohio, United States, for alternative comics, minicomics, and webcomics. Bob Corby founded the convention as a gathering place for "the comics and the creators with no distractions."
This still leaves a continuum of small press publishing: from specialist periodicals, short runs or print-to-order of low-demand books, to fine art books and limited editions of collectors' items printed to high standards. Unlike a vanity press or self-publishing service, a small press rarely publishes books written by the owner or publisher. [1]
SPD was founded in 1969 in Berkeley, California, by Peter Howard of Serendipity Books and Jack Shoemaker of Sand Dollar Press. [1] The fledgling organization provided small-scale distribution services for only eight publishers. [4] Initially called Serendipity Books Distribution, [1] it was renamed Small Press Distribution by the late 1970s ...
This list does include periodic publishers of poetry, and literature journals and magazines, including alternative comic books. This list does not include exclusively online publishers, academic publishers (who often publish very limited print runs, but for a different market), or businesses operating solely as printers, such as print-on-demand ...
Founded in 1984, [1] the Midwest Independent Publishers Association, or MIPA, is a nonprofit organization based in Minneapolis, Minnesota and serving 12 states. [2] The association serves the Upper Midwest small press community through education, Business networking , and Community recognition .
Formerly the Small Press Center, the Center was founded by Whitney North Seymour, Jr. in 1984. The Center's historical seedbed as the home of independent publishing dates back to 1831, when James Harper , one of the original four Harper Brothers, joined as a member of the General Society of Mechanics and Tradesmen of the City of New York ...
Minicomics Co-ops are entities for trading and promoting small press comics and fanzines.The most well-known of these co-ops is the United Fanzine Organization, or UFO, a co-operative of minicomic creators that has existed since about 1968, when it was called Blue Plaque Publications (BPP).