The number of comics and graphic novel publishers with stand-alone booths and programming at BEA this year is once again declining, following last year’s trend. Many publishers have either opted out of having a booth or are displaying with their distributors or parent companies. Even BookCon, a setup that should feel familiar to most comics publishers, will not feature many stand-alone booths for comics and graphic novels sales. However, there will still be plenty of comics to see at this year’s show if you know where to look.

Diamond Book Distributors will be returning to the show in booth 2721 and will be representing a wide range of its distribution clients. Image, IDW, and Paizo will have their own exhibit spaces adjacent to the Diamond booth as well (2722A, 2724, and 2726, respectively). Diamond and its client publishers will have previews of upcoming titles at their booths; Diamond will be previewing Extinction Parade by Max Brooks from Avatar Press in particular.

Abrams ComicArts will be represented in the Abrams Books booth (2727). There will be galleys of the forthcoming graphic novel The Warren Commission by Dan Mishkin, illustrated by Ernie Colon. Mishkin will sign galleys at Abrams’s booth today, 4–5 p.m. Abrams’s kids graphic books imprint, Amulet, will be represented, with Cece Bell signing galleys of her graphic novel El Deafo at 11 a.m.

Pantheon will be represented at the Random House booth (2839), with galleys of Michael Cho’s upcoming graphic novel debut, Shoplifter, and Cho will be on “The Best in Fall 2014 Graphic Novels” panel today, 4–5 p.m., at the Uptown Stage. The panel also features Farel Dalrymple (The Wrenchies), Jules Feiffer (Kill My Mother), and Raina Telgemeier (Sisters); PW editor Calvin Reid will moderate.

Jules Feiffer will sign galleys of Kill My Mother at the Norton booth (1921) today, 2:30–3:30 p.m., and tomorrow, 11 a.m.–noon, 100 finished copies of his forthcoming Rupert Can Dance with Macmillan Kids at Table 13 in the Autographing Area. An interview with Feiffer is in this issue (p. 108).

HarperCollins’ Ecco imprint is hosting a signing for Liana Finck today, 10:30–11 a.m., at Table 15 in the Autographing Area for her new graphic novel A Bintel Brief: Love and Longing in Old New York. The book is based on letters to the editor from the early 1900s sent to the Forward, the Yiddish daily newspaper, by recent immigrants to New York’s Lower East Side.

NBM returns this year with a host of upcoming titles from its ComicsLit line, including Girl in Dior by Annie Goetzinger, Beauty by Hubert & Kerascoet (the team behind NBM’s Miss Don’t Touch Me), Jude Nude by Etienne Davodeau, Street View by Pascal Rabaté, Invincible Days by Patrick Atangan, and a new volume of the popular Dungeon series. NBM can be found sharing the Papercutz booth (1747).

Papercutz will be on hand with samples of all of its winter and spring 2014 books, including new launches, Dinosaurs, LEGO Legends of Chima, and Mighty Morphin Power Rangers. Also being given away are 250 finished copies of the other spring launch, Toto Trouble #1, which officially pubs the week of the show.

Also in kids’ comics, First Second will be represented with its parent, Macmillan (1738/39), featuring Farel Dalrymple’s The Wrenchies. First Second senior editor Calista Brill will be speaking on a panel about the graphic novel industry during BookCon. The panel, “The Graphic Novel Today,” will take place Saturday, 10–11 a.m., and will also include Calvin Reid, Karen Green, and Raina Telgemeier.

Scholastic will present its Graphix imprint at its booth (1438). Promoted titles will include Raina Telgemeier’s Sisters, the highly anticipated sequel to Smile.