Sparkplug will be at Short Run this weekend! It’s on Saturday, October 31st (spooky!) from 11am-6pm at Fisher Pavilion at the Seattle Center. We’ll have kid-friendly postcard packs for trick-or-treaters and plenty of books, including...
Read moreSparkplug at SPX!
Sparkplug will be at SPX this year! It takes place September 19 and 20th at the Bethesda Marriott. More details here! William Cardini, author of Vortex, and Sparkplug superstar Jenny Flax will be at the table with postcards for free and...
Read moreSparkplug Highlight: Golem of Gabirol
Set in the Medieval Middle East, this minicomic tells the story of the love triangle between Zuleicha, her cousin Nusret, and Reb Solomon, a poet and scholar who is revealed to be a sorcerer. When Zuleicha and Nusret marry, Reb Solomon...
Read moreSparkplug at Portland Zine Symposium!
Sparkplug will be tabling at the Portland Zine Symposium this weekend, July 18 and 19. The event will be held at the Ambridge Event Center at 1313 NE MLK from 11am – 5pm both days. It’s free and open to the public. We’re...
Read moreSparkplug Highlight: Ce/Ze by Suzette Smith
Ce/Ze, the fourth book in the Sparkplug Minis Series, is Suzette Smith’s dreamlike take on Sci-Fi/Fantasy. Amelia Smith and Honey Czarny are 7th grade girls who discover that they share fragmented memories of another world in which they were...
Read moreSparkplug Highlight: Dumb by Georgia Webber
The Dumb series is Georgia Webber’s multi-disciplinary exploration of what it means to live without a voice after sustaining a vocal chord injury that required her to speak less than thirty minutes a day for months. Each issue addresses an aspect...
Read moreSparkplug Highlight: Wicked Chicken Queen by Sam Alden
Wicked Chicken Queen is a story of birth and death, loneliness and loss, told in two parts. An isolated island community discovers an egg that hatches into an enormous chicken. The society flourishes under the chicken queen’s rule, but is...
Read moreSparkplug Highlight: Bird Girl and Fox Girl by Yumi Sakugawa
This minicomic follows the threads of Bird Girl and Fox Girl’s lives after the dissolution of their friendship. Bird Girl moves from the desert to the city, where she works as a secretary, eventually saving up enough money for surgery to look...
Read moreSparkplug at RIPE!
Sparkplug is going to be in Providence for RIPExpo on March 28-29! I’ll have a good selection of our books, plus new minis of The WHYs, my webcomic. I’ll also be on a panel about small press publishing on Sunday the...
Read moreSparkplug Highlights: #FOODPORN by Meghan Turbitt
#FOODPORN details Meghan’s sexual obsession with anyone and everyone who makes or serves her food or drinks. A repulsive pizza chef is transformed through the act of food preparation into a sexy pizza-delivering god. Meghan eats tacos off of the...
Read moreSparkplug Tentative Convention Schedule, 2015!
Hello, friends! It looks like 2015 is going to be a pretty busy year. We have a convention planned nearly every month from now until September. Here is the schedule so far: Jan. 31: Write to Publish, Portland, OR (confirmed) Feb. 15: LA...
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