Sparkplug, Teenage Dinosaur, Snakebomb and Floating World join forces again to bring you their 2014 Free Comic Book Anthology – BARRIO MOTHERS. Eight Portland artists present new masterpieces guaranteed to take your face on a wild trip...
Read moreSparkplug Highlight: ZIRP #3 by Till D. Thomas
Featuring both beautifully stylized comic pages, as well as painted splash pages, ZIRP #3 is a delight to behold. The story opens with half-baked author Raoul as he lives his loser life, trying to read his own book. After becoming disgusted with...
Read moreNew Books From Alternative Comics and More
It looks like we are doing new comic book day on Thursday this week. We have three new books from our house label Alternative Comics in stock online and in the Cupertino store: Jed Alexander’s (Mostly) Wordless, Kevin Scalzo’s Sugar...
Read moreSparkplug Highlight: Edison Steelhead’s Lost Portfolio by Renee French
Renee French’s small but beautiful book Edison Steelhead’s Lost Portfolio: Exploratory Studies of Girls and Rabbits perhaps has many themes, but surely the most obvious is body horror. Each spread includes a soft, detailed charcoal rendering of a...
Read moreSteve Moore Has Minutes To Go In Suspension
I was about ten or eleven when I was first exposed to the writing of the recently deceased Steve Moore in the pages of Doctor Who Weekly. He and Alan Moore (no relation) wrote back-up stories in the magazine. Some of the ones that first caught my...
Read moreSparkplug Highlight: Other Worlds (a Gridlords anthology)
The second anthology from Portland comics-performance phenom Gridlords does not disappoint! As implied by the title, the stories within mostly deal with other planets, alternate realities and strange universes. There is some great work in...
Read moreKickstart This: Study Group Comics
Help fund Study Group Comics’ upcoming slate of super awesome print editions by pre-ordering your copies today! Study Group is running a Kickstarter for pre-orders on their 2014 books. It is one hell of a lineup, with the best ever looking...
Read moreSuport This: Suspect Device 4 Kickstarter
Suspect Device 4. Anthology of collage based comics dedicated to linking comics history with its future. Cover by Raymond Pettibon. Suspect Device 4 is the 4th installment in a series of comics first begun in 2011. Its principal conceit is that...
Read moreSparkplug Highlight: Whirlwind Wonderland by Rina Ayuyang
Diary and journal comics are addicting. There is something magical about glimpsing into someone else’s life and seeing what drives them, what worries them and what they daydream about. This collection of stories by Rina Ayuyang...
Read moreSparkplug Highlight: The Shortest Interval by David King
The Shortest Interval is a bizarre, hilarious little jaunt through the Planck Epoch, filled with questionable “facts” and quirky personifications. Visit the researchers working at Gash Mountain Lab on Beaver Island. Let the squeal...
Read moreNew In The Shop Frontier Three and More
Newly added to the shop is the latest issue of Youth in Decline’s Frontier — issue number three — featuring the work of rarely seen in the states German artist Sascha Hommer, who fuses the sensibilities and styles of Jon...
Read moreSupport This: Seth Kushner’s Schmuck Kickstarter
A semi-autobio graphic novel anthology about one schmuck’s quest for love and the meaning of life in New York City. SCHMUCK is a 168-page trade paperback autobio graphic novel about one man’s awkward coming-of-age-quest to find love in New...
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