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Thank you to our
generous sponsors
of APE 2007
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A LOOK BACK AT APE 2007
The 2007 poster with art by special guest Gene Yang.
APE: On the Loose
in San Francisco!
The Nation's Largest Alternative Comics Show Celebrates Its 14th Year!
APE, the Alternative Press Expo, roared back into San Francisco's Concourse
Exhibition Center on Ape-ril 21 and 22. Featuring an Exhibit Hall
bigger than ever before, APE also boasted an impressive
special guest list and
programming schedule.
This year's special guests included Kevin Huizenga,
Karl Christian Krumpholz (courtesy SLG Publishing),
Hope Larson,
Francoise Mouly,
Bryan Lee O'Malley,
art spiegelman, and
Gene Yang. Mouly and spiegelman spoke to a standing room only
audience on Saturday, April 21, about their lives and careers for close to two
and a half hours. Art also took part in a "Graphic Novels Now" panel on Sunday,
along with special guests Huizenga, Larson, O'Malley, and Yang, moderated by the
Cartoon Art Museum's Andrew Farago. Other panels included "Socially Relevant
Comics," "The Bay Area's Young Cartoonists," and APE's annual "Queer
Cartoonists" event, along with individual spotlights on each of the special
guests.
The Exhibit Hall was filled to the rafters with an amazing assortment of comics,
art, books, stuffed toys and figures, posters and prints, and much more. APE's
exhibitor roster grew once again this year to include 307 exhibitors filling
over 335 separate tables. In its 14th year, APE remains the country's premiere
alternative comics event, attracting the major indie publishers such as SLG,
Fantagraphics, Drawn and Quarterly, Top Shelf, IDW, Oni Press and AiT/Planet Lar
and an incredible line-up of self-published comics and artists. The APE weekend
in San Francisco once again featured a full schedule of nighttime parties and
gallery openings.
» Click here for a complete rundown of who participated in this
year's show.
Coming soon, information on next year's event.
Comic-Con International, which produces the Alternative Press
Expo, is a nonprofit educational corporation dedicated to creating
awareness of and appreciation for comics and related popular art forms,
primarily through the presentation of conventions and events that
celebrate the historic and ongoing contribution of comics to art and
culture.
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