Tomorrow is everyone’s favorite holiday: Free Comic Book Day! This year Sparkplug teamed up with Portland publishers Floating World Comics, Snakebomb Comix and Teenage Dinosaur to bring you BARRIO MOTHERS! With art and stories...
Read moreATTN Retailers: deadline for Barrio Mothers, a FCBD anthology
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: 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 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 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 moreReading at Powell’s!
Just to let y’all know, I (Virginia) will be reading from Milkyboots #14 for Powell’s Books Smallpressapalooza on Monday, March 17th. It should be fun, and there will be lots of other talented folks reading as well. Hope...
Read moreCover preview of our next book!
Here’s a peek at the next book in the Sparkplug Minis Series, The Anthropologists by Whit Taylor. The Anthropologists follows the author’s trip to Australia and subsequent reevaluation of her chosen field of study. It will...
Read moreSparkplug Highlight: The Virtuous by Fiona Smyth
The Virtuous is visceral in both senses of the word; provoking a strong emotional reaction and having to do with guts. Intestines pour from torsos and crotches on every page. It sounds grotesque, and it is, but also beautiful. ...
Read moreSparkplug Highlight: Dream Grant by Sean Christensen
How much do I love Sean Christensen’s Church of Awesome Thought books? I can’t even explain it. It’s so much fun to read about everyday, almost mundane life in this strange universe and Dream Grant is one of my...
Read moreNew books from this month!
Just a reminder! This month we added two new books to Sparkplug’s published catalog. Reich #11 is the second to last book in Elijah Brubaker’s Reich series. Reich’s world is beginning to crumble in this...
Read moreLA Zine Fest this weekend!
Hey all! Sparkplug will be tabling at LA Zine Fest this Sunday, February 16th, at Helms Bakery in Los Angeles. For more info on the fest, click here. We’ll have our normal, awesome collection of books and zines PLUS...
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