Comix Retrospective Spiegelman HCMedia Release -- You guys! San Francisco's Alternative Press Expo is just around the corner! We will be there reppin' our books and we're bringing the wonderful Anders Nilsen with us! Anders is a special guest of the festival, and will be debuting his not-yet-in-stores accordion book Rage of Poseidon, which is so poignant and laugh-out-loud funny and insightful about contemporary life. You want it. You KNOW you want it.

You'll be able to find him (plus a whole lotta D+Q books PLUS D+Q Managing Editor Tracy Hurren to boot) at the Drawn & Quarterly tables 516 + 517 - right next to McSweeney's! Now you know where you can spend all your APE dollas. San Francisco's bonanza of comics fun takes place at the Concourse Exhibition Center (635 8th St, San Francisco, 94103) on Saturday October 12 and Sunday October 13! Here's our schedule:

SATURDAY OCTOBER 12 - 11 am to 7 pm
1:30 - 2:30 pm Anders Nilsen signing
2:45 - 3:45 pm Graphic Novels vs Collected Works with Anders Nilsen, Colleen Coover, Renee French, Bill Griffith, and Diane Noomin, moderated by Doug Neff --Program Room 1
4 - 5 pm Anders Nilsen signing

SUNDAY OCTOBER 13 - 11 am to 6 pm
12 - 1 pm Anders Nilsen signing
1:30 - 2:30 pm Anders Nilsen Spotlight panel --Program Room 1
2:45 - 3:45 pm Anders Nilsen signing
4:30 - 5:30 pm Keeping Comics Alive for a New Generation with Anders Nilsen, Colleen Coover, Raina Telgemeier, Ron Turner, and Dan Vado, moderated by Ricardo Padilla --Program Room 1

And here are a few more of our exciting new books you'll be able to nab at the show...

Co-Mix: A Retrospective of Comics, Graphics, and Scraps by Art Spiegelman

Louis Riel: Tenth Anniversary Edition by Chester Brown

Optic Nerve 13 by Adrian Tomine

Palookaville 21 by Seth

Pippi Fixes Everything by Astrid Lindgren and Ingrid Vang Nyman

Rookie Yearbook Two edited by Tavi Gevinson

Woman Rebel: The Margaret Sanger Story by Peter Bagge

Now get out there, San Franciscans! And bring Tracy a burrito while you're at it. She's travelling a long way to bring you our favoritest books.