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#SPX2019 SPECIAL GUEST:
Illustrator/character designer, Richie Pope @richiepope!
He’s created illustrations for The New Yorker & The New York Times and book covers for publishers like HarperCollins and Scholastic. That Box We Sit On won an Ignatz Award for Outstanding Artist.
We’re gonna announce six more special guests at 10:30 A.M. Eastern today.
#SPX2019 SPECIAL GUEST:
Eddie Campbell @ecampbelldammit has been writing & drawing comics since 1974. Best known for collaborations with Alan Moore (From Hell) & Neil Gaiman (The Truth is a Cave in the Black Mountains), his latest book is Bizarre Romance with Audrey Niffenegger.
#SPX2019 SPECIAL GUEST:
@marinaomi is the award-winning cartoonist of 4 graphic memoirs and the Life on Earth YA graphic novel trilogy as well as founder and admin of the Cartoonists of Color, Queer Cartoonists, and (soon) Disabled Cartoonists databases. https://t.co/JVrMT7J1PD
#SPX2019 SPECIAL GUEST:
Ignatz Award winner for Promising New Talent, @biancaxunise!
Her body of work focuses primarily on the daily struggles of identifying as a young black feminist weirdo in modern society and has been featured in The Washington Post, The Nib, BBC and more.
#SPX2019 SPECIAL GUEST:
Cartoonist Rosemary Valero-O’Connell @hirosemaryhello who’s opening eyes with her latest, Laura Dean Keeps Breaking Up With Me w/ writer, @marikotamaki.
Past works includes Lumberjanes. Her illustrations work has been shown in galleries internationally.
#SPX2019 SPECIAL GUEST:
Cartoonist Eleanor Davis @squinkyelo!
Her books include How To Be Happy, You and a Bike and a Road, Why Art? and The Secret Science Alliance and the Copycat Crook. The Hard Tomorrow is her first book published by @DandQ. She lives in Athens, Georgia.
Today we learned that Mercy Graves from Superman: The Snimated Series was voiced by Lisa Edelstein, who played Dr. Lisa Cuddy on the tv series, “House.”
Today we learned that “age-otori” is the regret and sadness you feel after receiving a bad haircut.