APE Preview: Things To Do List

A small convention suggestion list, slightly tailored for this year's Alternative Press Expo, in San Francisco on Saturday and Sunday.

1. Try to see Francoise Mouly and Art Spiegelman during one of their featured panel presentations. Both are excellent speakers, and neither one does a ton of shows away from the New York area. Or even there, really.

2. There's a lot of excellent programming generally, so keep on those schedules for something you'd 1) enjoy and 2) be able to use for a break from standing up down on the floor.

3. Since it's a small press-driven show, once you get settled in and do things like check with certain publishers for certain books before they sell out, take a deliberate walk booth to booth over the entire layout of the show. You'll likely discover something you didn't know was going to be there. Here's a nice resource for who's going to be there.

4. Go to a party/launch event/exhibition, particularly one of the social functions offered by one of the area's great comic book shops. Not only will events at Comix Experience, Comic Relief and Isotope be well-attended and almost certainly fun, even if they were to suck you could buy some more funnybooks and scope out these retailers' spaces.

5. Remember to look for stuff that might not be available from your hometown retailer or on-line. For instance, the cartoonist Renee French is going to be there at the Top Shelf booth, and I'm pretty certain she's bringing t-shirts.
 
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