Pics of the Week, 9/26

Minnesota-based automotive publisher MBI celebrated its 40th anniversary and held its 25th annual Wheels & Wings car and airplane show at their warehouse. Pictured are model Heidi Van Horne, who posed with fans, and photographer David Perry, author of Hot Rod Pin-Ups and Bill F. Gibbons: Rock & Roll Gearhead, both from MBI.

Washington, D.C.'s based Politics and Prose Bookstore celebrated its 21st anniversary with a fiction panel of local and once-local authors. Pictured (l. to r.) are Howard Norman, Susan Richards Shreve, Jonathan Safran Foer, Julia Slavin, Mary Kay Zuravleff, Andrew Sean Greer and Alan Cheuse, with P&P co-owner Barbara Meade at the lectern.

Carroll & Graf hosted a party for the release of Hitting Hard: Michelangelo Signorile on George W. Bush, Mary Cheney, Gay Marriage, Tom Cruise, the Christian Right and Sexual Hypocrisy in America. Pictured (l. to r.) are Signorile, Fred Morris, his agent at Jed Mattes Inc., and Don Weise, executive editor at Carroll & Graf.

Oxford University Press brought together four legendary historians—James McPherson, Robert Middlekauff, David Kennedy and James Patterson—for an event at Borders Columbus Circle in New York City celebrating their contributions to The Oxford History of the U.S. Pictured (l. to r.) are Ellen Chodosh, publisher OUP trade; McPherson; Middlekauff; Kennedy; Patterson; and Peter Ginna, editor-in-chief, OUP trade.

The 12th annual SPX was held in Bethesda, Md., this past weekend, bringing together the best in independent and self-published comics and graphic novels. Pictured is Harvey Pekar, SPX guest of honor, on hand to talk about his new book, The Quitter from DC/Vertigo.

Carla Speed McNeil shows off her Ignatz Award (the brick in hand), awarded to her series Finder at SPX.

Brian Lee O'Malley shows off giveaway posters for his acclaimed series Scott Pilgrim at the Oni Press table at SPX.

Top Shelf publisher Chris Staros with star author Jeffrey Brown at SPX.

Owly creator Andy Runton shows off his own Ignatz Award brick for promising new talent at SPX.

Alec Longstreth (Outstanding Minicomic) and Liz Prince (Outstanding Debut) hoist their Ignatz bricks with pride at SPX.

Cartoonist and Ignatz MC Keith Knight shows off self-portrait at SPX.

Eisner Awards adminstrator and Exhibit A copublisher Jackie Estrada shoots the breeze with ADV Manga's Chris Oarr at SPX.