I just added four books to our online store: Milk and Moo by Yumi Sakugawa, Service Industry by T. Edward Bak, I Was Born, But…#2 by Emily Nilsson and Drip by Chris C. Cilla. There are descriptions of each if you click through the link, but...
Read morePapercutter #15 & Mel Stringer
We got the new Papercutter in! Issue #15 is for sale in the store now and includes three excellent stories by Jonas Madden-Connor, Melinda Boyce, MK Reed and Drew Weing. And we also added Goodness, by Australian artist Mel Stringer. If you...
Read moreNew in the Store Today! Tessa Brunton and Jason Overby
I know it’s now the weekend for y’all, but we here at Sparkplug are still adding stuff to the store! Today we have minis by two very different autobio artists: Tessa Brunton’s dense, funny In the Tall Grass #3 and #4 and Jason...
Read moreNew in the store today: Papercutter #10-14!
I’ve just added Papercutter #10-14 to the shop. If you’re unfamiliar, Papercutter is an anthology put out by Portland’s own Tugboat Press that showcases underrated but awesome artists. Each issue contains three stories and is...
Read moreSparkplug is joining the 21st Century.
Yes, it’s true! Sparkplug now has a facebook page and a twitter account! We’d love it if you became a fan or followed us! You can use the linked words or the widgets in the sidebar!
Read moreNew in the Store Today: I Cut My Hair #1-3 and more!
Winter is the perfect time for curling up with diary comics and a cup of tea. We’ve got a couple new autobio mini-comics in the store today: issues 1 through 3 of Lisa Rosalie Eisenberg’s lovely I Cut My Hair and Susie Cagle’s...
Read moreNew in the shop today!
Today we added the anthologies Bound & Gagged and Quiet Human Contact (both of which have contributions from Sparkplug artists), Amy Kuttab’s excellent fairy tale How Dry I Am and Phillip Barrett’s haunting Black Shapes. Check...
Read moreTop 10, 2010
Dylan asked me to make a top ten list of comics for the year. I’m not an expert or anything, and have mostly been too broke to buy books, but these are my favorite things I’ve read in 2010. Not all are strictly comics – some are...
Read moreNew in the Store Today: Study Group Twelve #4 and more!
Today we added to the store Corinne Mucha’s whimsical travelogue My Alaskan Summer; Damien Jay’s The Natural World #1-4, a brooding comic about human nature set in the Dark Ages; and the very local, very excellent anthology Study...
Read moreNew today! Rum Lad #4, The Wall #1 and more!
Today we added four comics by British artists! Rum Lad #4 by Steve Larder, Morgenmuffel #17 by Isy, and The Death of a Salesman and The Wall #1 by Edd Baldry. All excellent, all punk/activist/politically themed. Rum Lad has some seriously...
Read moreNew in the Store: Gazeta Anthology and Crime World #2
Today in the store we added Gazeta: Comics from Bangkok to Belgrade, a beautiful anthology of world comics; and David E. King’s brand new Crime World #2. Also the Danny Dutch Gocco-printed luggage tags are back!
Read moreNew in the Store!
Fresh in the Store today: Carrie McNinch’s You Don’t Get There From Here #16, Vanessa Davis’ Kitchen Conniption and my very own The Warehouse on Poplar. Also check out the revamped pages for Mats?!’s Asiaddict, Ted...
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