A really uneven collection of indie comics. Some great names in here, but its all very minor work.

Lots of Y2K comix. I liked 10-20%

Anthology Feat. Seth, Adrian Tomine, Craig Thompson et al.

Most of the short stories collected in Expo 2000 are mediocre at best, but there are a few noteworthy standouts: the elegantly nostalgic 2-pager "Ice Cream Man" by Seth; an untitled story by Craig Thompson about child abuse in the name of religion; the one-pager "Cinema Verite" by Adrian Tomine about commercial culture's desire to make us feel inadequate; and "The Seventh Chicken" by Sasha Mihajlowich about our daily struggles for dignity and integrity in an increasingly exploitative and desensitized world. In addition, you get a few generally well-done interviews and short essays, plus a great cover by Charles Burns.

Huge collection of very short comics. Art, topic, and story styles wildly different. I found several to be compelling but many were hard to physically read and then hard to understand the meaning

so much goodness in this tightly bound little package. There's a great interview with Scott McCloud, an essay on the Comic Book Legal Defense Fund by Tom Spurgeon, an interview with the comics journalist Aleksander Zograf on depicting realism, an essay by Mark D. Nevins on the future of comix via L'Association, and an interview with the artist Jakob Klemencic. AND an article on the current state of German Language comics.

Oh yeah, and there's lots of comix! All of them are very different in tone and style and theme with SO many great ones it is difficult to single out individual pieces, but the one about a young girl secretly reading love poems by Leland Myrick is really special. And Chris Ware has a little thing in here too.

Definitely worth seeking out if you have an interest in alternative comics and/or the pictorial art medium in general.

In case you did not read the official specifications of this title, this anthology was created as a benefit for the Small Press Expo, held annually in Bethesda, MD. As far as I know, such anthologies are no longer released although the Expo remains a great way to learn about new, talented self-starting artists.

Bonus: vid of some of the artists featured at the Expo.

Was really excited and looking forward to going through this entire collection set, but the first several pieces were so bland and forgettable that I couldn't force myself to go through the whole thing.

If you like countless 'Slice-of-Life' pages where characters don't really go anywhere, and there's barely any story to speak of, this might be for you.
Otherwise, skip.