Wow Cool has relaunched it’s comics, zines and music mail order shop. All the fun is at: https://wowcool.com/. There are still at least a hundred books in stock that have not yet been posted to the store, but will be very soon. That...
Read moreSparkplug will be at APE in San Francisco this weekend! Please stop by to say hi, buy books and chat with our artists! APE takes place at the Concourse Exhibition Center on Saturday, October 1st and Sunday October 2nd. Also, Tom Neely, Landry...
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I was looking for something else and found this. Since I and many other of the 90s Berkeley zine and mini-comics scene have been deep in the nostalgia zone for not the best reasons lately, this seemed a little more interesting than the last five...
Read moreWe are about to start the production semester of the Comics Program at the IPRC, there is still room for last minute enrollment and a few special classes are open to individual class enrollment: Minicomics and Paste-Up with John Isaacson Image...
Read moreYou can now listen to the library talk with Julia Gfrörer, Diana Schutz, Cris Paschild and Dylan Williams on their podcast: http://multcolib.libsyn.com/srsly-big-deal-making-being-comics-in-portland Lots of talking and funny stuff, including a...
Read moreSparkplug will be involved in a few local events surrounding the Stumptown Comics Festival this weekend. And we’ll be a the show itself too. Thursday: “Learn about the cultural and economic significance of comics with: PSU Special...
Read morehttp://www.multcolib.org/events/comics.html Srsly Big Deal: Living and Breathing Comics in PDX (April 14 at 4:00pm) Cris Paschild; Dylan Williams; Diana Schultz; Julia Gfrörer From self-published mini-comic zines to traditional comic...
Read moreVirginia Paine, Chris Cilla, Tim Goodyear and I are all going to Austin, Texas this weekend (March 5th and 6th, 2011) for our own chainsaw massacre. It will be amazing. Also exhibiting at the show will be Top Shelf Productions, Melinda...
Read moreOpening tomorrow Thursday Feb. 3rd at Pony Club 6-10 PM TODAY’S ANOTHER DAY TO FIND YOU: Art based on A-Ha’s seminal Take On Me video! Group Show! 625 NW Everett St., #105 Including art by Emily Nilsson, Chris Cilla...
Read moreLisa Mangum and I are co-teaching a class called World Comics at the Independent Publishing Resource Center. Annie Murphy and Clio Reese Sady will be teaching Elements of Graphic Narrative. The classes are beginning on January 17th. We’ve...
Read moreSean Christenson has orchestrated a wonderful art show in Portland this Friday! SUBJECT: Ghostwood Forest: a Twin Peaks themed Art Show WHERE: Guapo Comics & Coffee 6350 SE Foster Rd, Portland OR WHEN: Friday, October 29th. Opening...
Read moreBOUND & GAGGED What happens when you as a bunch of cartoonists, artists and assorted weirdos to do one panel gag comics? COMEDY! HORROR! NAVEL GAZING! ABSTRACTION! AND MORE!!! 72 pages of color and black & white comics by some of...
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