David has revamped the Reliable comics website, it looks BE-OOOTIFUL:www.reliablecomics.com “I made a lot of changes to Reliable Comics to make it more of a blog/e-comics deal. For the next month or so there’ll be daily postings of...
Read moreNurse Nurse at Arthur!
Sparkplug favorite Katie Skelly got a big write up for the new issue of Nurse Nurse and the series at Arthur:www.arthurmag.comand here is here website, a must:calico-comics.livejournal.com
Read moreA = A
The only trouble with Steve Ditko is how much amazing stuff he’s done in the past thirty years. Where to start? I just added four new books to the Sparkplug web store. All by Steve Ditko: Mr. A 160 Page Package Ditko Package Avenging World...
Read moreComics as Poetry
“Like all the best poetry, what a reader gets out of comics-as-poetry is entirely dependent on how willing they are to truly engage the material and articulate the feelings it evokes.” The new and improved The Comics Journal Online...
Read moreMardou and you.
We just added three new books to the webstore. Mardou’s Washing Maching, Manhole #2 and Manhole #3. All modern classics and some of my favorite self published comics. www.sparkplugcomicbooks.com
Read moreSparkplug at Brooklyn Comics Fest
Sparkplug had a blast at the Brooklyn Comics Fest! One of the most fun shows I’ve ever been to… It made you feel good to be involved with comics. Sometimes it really hits you how vibrant and alive the comics community/movement is, and...
Read moreTwo Inspirations
We’ve just added two new self published books to the Sparkplug website store: I Still Live by Annie Murphy and Estrus #7 by Mari Naomi. Great stuff, take a look:www.sparkplugcomicbooks.com
Read moreBrooklyn Comics and Graphics Phestival!
The Brooklyn Comics and Graphics Festival is this Saturday! Go check it out if you are in the New York City area. Sparkplug will be there, run by Austin English and Nate Doyle. Maria Sputnik may be showing up at our table too. Saturday December...
Read moreThe great Gary Arlington
May 10, 1972 in an interview with the amazing Patrick Rosenkranz, Gary Arlington had this to say when asked “What’s new?” Artlington: “Justin Green is coming out with the world’s first underground comic books...
Read moreStrange Bed Fellows!
Two new books added to our online store. Big Plans #4 Aron Nels Steinke and Crime World by David King! Both equally amazing.
Read moreA Resurrected Ken Kesey
The resurrected Ken Kesey is working the drive up window at Rita’s Tacos, filling orders and dispensing cryptic advice. I wouldn’t usually post a link to my El Vocho comics blog here, but maybe some folks in the Portland comics...
Read more1883/Crooked Teeth #5 party and fund raiser!
Please join us for a fund raiser benefiting cartoonists Mollie Goldstrom and Nate Doyle (easily two of Sparkplugs favorite people)! Both cartoonists have major new comics in the works—Goldstrom with “1883” and Doyle with...
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