TopatoCo’s coming to your town! As long as your town is San Francisco. The whole clattering tinker-carriage is pulling up to the Concourse Exhibition Center on October 17-18 for the hundredth annual Alternative Press Expo. We probably won’t have earrings made of Scrabble tiles or Members Only jackets with Black Flag iron-on patches, but we will be bringing our finely-tuned sense of East Coast joie de vivre to your foggy, bebridged moors.

We’re going to be at tables 254-256 and we’re going to have a staggered signing schedule so we can make sure nobody gets rickets from sitting too long. Check out this boss PDF map for a whole list of times and locations and names and pretty much everything you need to get going. Oh and don’t forget if you have a San Diego Comic-Con pass, you get in the door of APE for bupkis!

At TopatoCo Central we’re gonna have: Matt Boyd • Joey Comeau & Emily Horne • Meredith Gran • Chris Hastings • Jon Rosenberg • Jeffrey Rowland • Zach Weiner • plus favorite merch from our other creators who can’t make the trip due to outstanding warrants or other similar reasons.

Also we should mention that Kate Beaton will be in the building, but not at our table — she’s over at table 440. And even good ol’ Brandon Bird will be right nearby at table 258! That’s all noted on our map though so don’t even worry about it. UPDATE: Now we even got Aaron Diaz on that thing holdin’ down table 251!

all right now we got to figure out if we need a passport to get into San Francisco and what kind of extradition treaties they got just in case of, you know

trouble

(APE 2008 photo above by lobraumeister, used under CC)