Book Expo America 2013 Starts Today

Their site is here. I remain slightly astonished how little this event seems to have remained mainstreamed into comics' DNA. I attended one of these ten years ago where I came to believe BEA might eventually replace all of the comics shows in terms of it being the primary focus for bookstore-oriented comics publishers seeking a public platform for their work and their authors. I don't get that sense now. Maybe it's me; maybe all of the news is happening there. I'll cover it via playing catch as best I can. I'm sure that there will be at least one, perhaps two, major comics authors on hand. I'm certain that a bunch of publishers will do very well there pushing their comics-related material -- I think the NBM group sees a lot of real value out of what they do at the show, for example, and First Second has a definite presence. I can't imagine Abrams and Pantheon don't do a lot of work there as well. The panel descriptions I've seen this year and last seemed very New York publisher dominant in terms of the talent involved: nothing I'm desperate to hear about content-wise, although I guess you never know.

I'm convinced BEA 2013 will be a great weekend for a lot of people. There's also a bunch of stuff to learn from prose publishing, particularly in the shift to digital which I have to imagine is a big part of these shows now. I just don't know many folks outside of hardcore New York people really see BEA as a grand comics weekend, and that once seemed in the offing.
 
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