Media release — The alternate press Expo (APE), the country’s largest alternate as well as independent comics convention, arrives in San Francisco this weekend, October 1–2, for what promises to be one of the most interesting events to date. every year APE boasts an outstanding guest list, as well as this year’s lineup is no exception. special guests appearing include award-winning cartoonists Shannon Wheeler, Kate Beaton, Daniel Clowes, as well as Adrian Tomine. APE is held at the Concourse exhibition Center, 635 8th street in San Francisco.
Additional special guests include Matthew Thurber, whose book 1-800 MICE makes its West coastline premiere at the event. The new book is a collection of the critically acclaimed very first five issues of Thurber’s comic book series, with 64 pages of new material. as well as special guest Craig Thompson likewise makes a long-anticipated return to the graphic book medium with his new book Habibi debuting this week. Habibi marks seven years since Thompson’s Blankets, which won various market honors in 2004, including two Eisner Awards.

“We are excited to have such inspiring as well as accomplished guests at APE this year,” said David Glanzer, APE spokesperson as well as director of advertising as well as public relations for parent business Comic-Con International.

In addition to the outstanding guest list, APE features two full days of comics programs geared around the show’s special guests as well as various aspects of independent as well as alternate comics. These programs promise to be fun, informative, as well as enlightening conversations with some of the top innovative talent working in comics today. as well as if that were not enough, APE likewise offers a fascinating, as well as informative group of hands-on workshops covering whatever from comics writing to world building, self-publishing, as well as bookbinding.

This year APE introduces its first-ever totally free courtesy shuttle bus service. attendees can travel from Caltrain, BART, as well as the San Francisco Centre shopping shopping center as well as food court to the Concourse exhibition Center, with a shuttle leaving every half-hour. Click right here for schedules as well as locations.

Advance tickets for APE are $10.00 single day, $15.00 both days as well as can be purchased by clicking here.

About alternate press Expo:
Alternative press Expo (APE), the country’s largest alternate as well as independent comics convention, is part of Comic-Con worldwide (CCI), a nonprofit academic organization dedicated to creating understanding of, as well as appreciation for, comics as well as related popular art forms. The organization achieves its objective primarily through the presentation of conventions as well as events that celebrate the historic as well as continuous contribution of comics to art as well as culture. In addition to the San Francisco-based APE each fall, CCI organizes San Diego Comic-Con each summer (the world’s largest comics convention of its kind) as well as WonderCon in Anaheim, California, this spring. On the web: Comic-Con.org, Facebook.com/APExpo, Twitter.com/APExpo.

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