MoCCA and New Books!

Sparkplug will be at the MoCCA Festival in New York this weekend (Saturday April 10th and 11th).www.moccany.com Austin English, Clara Johansson and Eroyn Franklin will be running the table ( #G9). They’ll have a bunch of new books including...

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Amy Kuttab portraits

One of my favorite artists is doing portrait commissions. Amy Kuttab has been making beautiful paintings and comics in Portland for quite a while now. She is a co-owner of the Pony Club Gallery too. Her comic, How Dry I Am is one of 2009’s...

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Indy Euphoria!

Coming up this year! The second Indy Euphoria in Sacrament. I’m really looking forward to it. Me and Theo Elsworth will be road tripping down there and Tom Neely is driving up from the South. Tons of new guests and it is in Summer! So keep...

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The Forsley Brothers

Christopher and Cameron Forsley are working on a new book book with Sparkplug. It will be a 40 page epic called “A Joe Story”. The cover totally blows my mind already. Look for it in the next year or so. (I just updated the Cameron...

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T. Edward Bak for the IPRC

Sparkplug OG for life, T. Edward Bak sent out an email request for help with the IPRC this week: As you may now, I currently volunteer at very special organization called the Independent Publishing Resource Center. The IPRC is the only...

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Diamond Comics on Kickstarter

Okay, can I just tell you how much I love Diamond Comics, it is one of the most interesting and artistic anthologies I’ve seen in years of comics fandom. Seriously. Jason, the editor, has put it up on Kickstarter as a means of generating...

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Support Taffy Hips!

Taffy Hips is a great zine/newsprint mag. It’s done with a lot of energy and full of interesting art. There should be a million things like it. Zara and Gil lost funding from Sarah Lawrence so now they’re raising funds at their online...

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