Are you going to be in Minneapolis this Sunday? Come see us at Autoptic! It is a free, one-day festival celebrating independent culture that features comics, zines, art, and music. Special guests include Jaime Hernandez, Marc Bell, Jim Rugg...
Read moreSparkplug Highlights: Orchid, edited by Ben Catmull and Dylan Williams
Do you love tales of the macabre and Gothic fiction? Do you get a thrill from being subtly horrified, eerily unsettled? Do you like amazing black-and-white art, anthologies, and juxtapositions of the work of talented modern artists and classic...
Read moreSparkplug Highlights: Viewotron #1, by Sam Sharpe and David Goodrich
“…the Viewotron [is] a metaphor for the creative process. We don’t know where ideas come from. They just appear like blueprints out of the ether of our brains. An artist’s job is to look at the blueprints and build the...
Read moreSparkplug at Portland Zine Symposium This Weekend!
Are you ready for this year’s Portland Zine Symposium? We are! Come see us this weekend, August 10th and 11th! We’ll be tabling with a bunch of awesome books, both new and old. PZS is a free conference and zine social exploring facets...
Read moreSparkplug Highlights: Jade, Volume One, by Fiona Avocado
Today’s featured review is Jade, Volume One, by local artist and writer Fiona Avocado. Its premise is simple, and in fact it could be summed up in a sentence: a young woman skips out on work for the day and goes to the beach with her dog...
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