ALA 2023 is here! We have pieced together this summary of where publishers are and what the signing schedules look like. Also if you are looking for the panel schedule.
Note: We have endeavoured to be as complete as possible with what information we have been able to piece together. Any omissions are purely accidental.
PUBLISHER + COMICS AFFILIATE LOCATIONS
Ablaze [Diamond] @ ALA Booth #2229
Abrams @ ALA Booth 3320
Andrews McMeel @ ALA Booth #3523
BOOM! Studios @ ALA Booth #3626
Dark Horse Comics @ ALA Booth #2717
DC Entertainment @ ALA Booth #3520
Disney Publishing @ ALA Booth #3420
Dynamite [Diamond] @ ALA Booth #2229
Fantagraphics @ ALA Booth #3415
Graphic Mundi [Diamond] @ ALA Booth #2229
Graphic Novels & Comics Round Table Comics Lounge @ Booth #1332
Humanoids @ ALA Booth #1326
IDW Publishing @ ALA Booth # 2615
Image Comics [Diamond] @ ALA Booth #2229
Iron Circus Comics @ ALA Booth 2826J
MacMillan Childrens Publishing Group (incl. First Second) @ ALA Booth #3011
Mad Cave Studios, Maverick, Papercutz @ ALA Booth #1423
Manga Classics [Diamond] @ ALA Booth #2229
Mangasplaining @ ALA Booth #1453
NBM Graphic Novels @ ALA Booth #4429H, #4429R1
New York Review Books @ ALA Booth #2517
Oni Press @ ALA Booth #3727
Rosarium Publishing @ ALA Booth #4029B
Scholastic @ ALA Booth #2525-2625
Skybound [Diamond] @ ALA Booth #2229
Street Noise Books @ ALA Booth #4429Z2
Toon Books @ ALA Booth #3020
Tuttle Publishing @ ALA Booth #3227
Udon Entertainment [Diamond] @ ALA Booth #2229
Vault Comics @ ALA Booth #1320
Viz Media @ ALA Booth #3529
Yen Press @ ALA Booth #1429
ALA 2023 SIGNINGS & MEET THE AUTHOR SESSIONS
Times are in Chicago local (CDT)

FRIDAY JUNE 23, 2023
SIGNING: Eric Glickman – Camp Pock-a-Wocknee [Black Panel Press]
5.00PM, Booth #2229
SIGNING Dave Scheidt – Wrapped Up #1 & #2 [Oni]
6.00PM-7.00PM, Booth #2220
SIGNING: Greg Pak [BOOM!]
6.00PM, Booth #3626
SIGNING: Jason Aaron [BOOM!]
6.30PM, Booth #3626
SATURDAY JUNE 24, 2023
SIGNING: Jarrett J. Krosoczka – Sunshine [Scholastic – Graphix]
9.00AM-10.00AM, Booth 2525-2625
Austin Paramore & Sarah Bollinger – Free Signed ARC, Malcolm Kid and the Perfect Song [Oni]
9.15AM-10.00AM, Booth #3727
SIGNING: Genevieve Valentine – Two Graves [Image Comics]
9.30AM, Booth #2229
SIGNING: Annie Wu – Two Graves [Image Comics]
9.30AM, Booth #2229
SIGNING: MK Czierwec – Taking Turns: Stories from HIV/AIDS Care Unit 371 and Menopause [Graphic Mundi]
10.00AM, Booth #2229
SIGNING: Natalie Norris – Dear Mini [Fantagraphics]
10.00AM, Booth #3415
SIGNING: Zack Kaplan – Break Out [Dark Horse]
10.00AM-11.00AM, Booth #2717
Meet the Author: Jeremy Whitley (School for Extraterrestrial Girls) [Mad Cave – Papercutz]
11.00AM-12.00PM, Booth #1423
SIGNING: Rob Kirby – Marry Me a Little [Graphic Mundi]
11.00AM, Booth 2229
SIGNING: Tate Brombal [BOOM!]
11.00AM, Booth #3626
SIGNING: Chad Corrie – Shadow Regent, Sons of Ashgard [Dark Horse]
11.30AM-12.30PM, Booth #2717
HF Brownfield – Free Signed ARC Quinnelope and the Cookie King Catastrophe [Oni]
11.45AM-12.30PM, Booth #3727
SIGNING: Jason Aaron [BOOM!]
12.00PM, Booth #3626
SIGNING: Jeff Smith – Bone: More Tall Tales [Scholastic – Graphix]
12.00PM-1.00PM, Booth 2525-2625
SIGNING: Kazu Kibuishi – Amulat Vol 8: Supernova [Scholastic – Graphix]
12.00PM-1.00PM, Booth 2525-2625
GROUP SIGNING: A. David Lewis, Justin Rentería – The Prophet: A Graphic Novel Adaptation [Graphic Mundi]
12.00PM, Booth 2229
GROUP SIGNING: Massive-Verse Spotlight with Kyle Higgins, Cherish Chen, Melissa Flores
Booth 2229 [Image Comics]
12.30PM, Booth 2229
SIGNING: Greg Pak [BOOM!]
1.00PM, Booth #3626
SIGNING: Sean K. Dove – Brobots Vols 1-3 [Oni]
1.00PM-1.45PM, Booth #3727
SIGNING: Amy Chu – Carmilla: The First Vampire [Dark Horse]
1.30PM-2.30PM, Booth #2717
SIGNING: Art Baltazar – YAHGZ [Mad Cave – Papercutz]
2.00PM-2.50PM, Exhibit Hall – Author Autographing Station 4
SIGNING: Harmony Becker – Himawari House [MacMillan Publishers – First Second]
2.00PM, Authors Area Station 1
SIGNING: Jennie Wood – Paper Planes [Mad Cave – Maverick]
2.00PM-2.20PM, Exhibit Hall – Author Autographing Station 1
SIGNING: Stephanie Philips [BOOM!]
2.00PM, Booth #3626
SIGNING: Mark Bouchard – It Took Luke [Oni]
2.00PM-2.45PM, Booth #3727
GROUP SIGNING: Maureen Burdock, MK Czerwiec, Rob Kirby [Graphic Mundi]
2.00PM, Booth 2229
SIGNING: Cecil Castellucci – Star Wars: Hyperspace Stories Vol 1, Shifting Earth [Dark Horse]
3.00PM-4.00PM, Booth #2717
SIGNING: Suzanne Walker – Mooncakes [Oni]
3.00PM-3.45PM, Booth #3727
SIGNING: Tate Brombal [BOOM!]
3.00PM, Booth #3626
SIGNING: Neal Shusterman – Courage to Dream: Tales of Hope in the Holocaust [Scholastic – Graphix]
3.00PM-4.00PM, Booth 2525-2625
SIGNING: Pornsak Pichetshote – The Good Asian [Image Comics]
3.30PM, Booth 2229
SIGNING: Jason Aaron [BOOM!]
4.00PM, Booth #3626
SIGNING: Dave Scheidt – Agents of SLAM; Wrapped Up Vol 1 [Oni]
4.15PM-5.00PM, Booth #3727
SIGNING: Greg Pak [BOOM!]
4.30PM, Booth #3626
GROUP SIGNING: Maureen Burdock, MK Czerwiec, Rob Kirby [Graphic Mundi]
4.30PM, Booth 2229
SUNDAY JUNE 25, 2023
HF Brownfield – Free Signed ARC Quinnelope and the Cookie King Catastrophe [Oni]
9.15AM-10.00AM, Booth #3727
SIGNING: Chad Corrie – Shadow Regent, Sons of Ashgard [Dark Horse]
10.00AM-11.00AM, Booth #2717
SIGNING: Kat Fajardo – Miss Quinces/Srta. Quinces [Scholastic – Graphix]
10.00AM-11.00AM, Booth 2525-2625
GROUP SIGNING: A. David Lewis, Justin Rentería – The Prophet: A Graphic Novel Adaptation [Graphic Mundi]
10.00AM, Booth 2229
Austin Paramore & Sarah Bollinger – Free Signed ARC, Malcolm Kid and the Perfect Song [Oni]
10.30AM-11.15AM, Booth #3727
SIGNING: Greg Pak [BOOM!]
11.00AM, Booth #3626
SIGNING: K. Wroten – Eden II [Fantagraphics]
11.00AM, Booth #3415
SIGNING: Cecil Castellucci – Star Wars: Hyperspace Stories Vol 1; Shifting Earth [Dark Horse]
11.30AM-12.30PM, Booth #2717
SIGNING: Jason Aaron [BOOM!]
12.00PM, Booth #3626
SIGNING & Q&A: Jeremy Whitley [w/ Graphic Novels & Comics Round Table]
12.00PM-12.30PM, Booth #1332
GROUP SIGNING: Maureen Burdock, MK Czierwec [Graphic Mundi]
12.00PM, Booth 2229
SIGNING: Tate Brombal [BOOM!]
12.30PM, Booth #3626
SIGNING: Mark Bouchard – It Took Luke [Oni]
12.45PM-1.30PM, Booth #3727
SIGNING: Michael Cherkas [w/ Graphic Novels & Comics Round Table]
1.00PM-1.30PM, Booth #1332
SIGNING: Ram V [BOOM!]
1.00PM, Booth #3626
SIGNING: Zack Kaplan – Break Out [Dark Horse]
1.30PM-2.30PM, Booth #2717
SIGNING: Thien Pham – Family Style [MacMillan Publishers – First Second]
2.00PM, Authors Area Station 3
SIGNING: W. Maxwell Prince, Art Brut and Ice Cream Man [Image Comics]
2.00PM, Booth #2229
GROUP SIGNING: Dave Scheidt, HF Brownfield, and Sean Dove – Agents of SLAM, Wrapped Up, Quinnelope and the Cookie King Catastrophe, Brobots [Oni]
2.45PM-3.30PM, Booth #3727
SIGNING: Rafer Roberts and Mike Norton – The Rock Gods of Jackson, Tennessee [Dark Horse]
3.00PM-4.00PM, Booth #2717
SIGNING: Jeff Lemire – Fishflies [Image Comics]
3.30PM, Booth #2229
Austin Paramore & Sarah Bollinger – Free Signed ARC, Malcolm Kid and the Perfect Song [Oni]
4.00PM-4.45PM, Booth #3727
SIGNING: Ivan Brunetti [Toon Books]
4.00PM, Booth #3020
SIGNING: Stephanie Phillips [BOOM!]
4.30PM, Booth #3626
MONDAY JUNE 26, 2023
SIGNING: Monica M. Magana – Dona Quixote [MacMillan Publishers – Henry Holt and Co.]
10.00AM, Booth #3011
HF Brownfield – Free Signed ARC Quinnelope and the Cookie King Catastrophe [Oni]
10.15AM-10.45AM, Booth #3727
SIGNING: Stephanie Phillips [BOOM!]
11.00AM, Booth #3626
SIGNING: Zach Weinersmith – Bea Wolf [MacMillan Publisher – First Second]
11.15AM, Booth #3011
SIGNING: K. Wroten – Eden II [Fantagraphics]
11.30AM-12.00PM, Booth #1332
SIGNING: Claribel Ortega and Rose Bousamra – Frizzy [MacMillan Publishers – First Second]
12.00PM, Authors Area Station 2
SIGNING: Maureen Burdock – Queen of Snails [Graphic Mundi]
12.00PM, Booth #2229
Dean,
Please add Saturday AM / Quarto Group to this list. Our booth is #2620.
We’re small but are performing quite well and would love to be considered on these lists.
Our schedule is
Day 2, Sat, 24 June
10:00am-10:50am, Author Autographing Station 5: Signing Clock Striker and Titan King –
Frederick Jones (Me, Founder) and Tony Dawkins
Day 3, Sun, 25 June
10:30am-11:20am, W196a: “Manga Connects to BIPOC Teens” panel – Frederick Jones in attendance along with
Kohei Fukushima, the Licensing Manager in the International Rights Department for
Kodansha, will be visiting from Tokyo and will be in attendance.
1:30pm-2:20pm, Look of Books (end of 2400 aisle): “The Art of Creating Manga and Comics
for Young Readers” – Frederick Jones and Tony Dawkins
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