An experimental comic featuring four-panel strips on each page, Danny Dutch is an existential run through the minds of a few sad saps. I really have no clue what the heck David King is talking about, because I don’t have the same foolhardy...
Read moreThe Kickstarter for our fall books has launched!
Our Kickstarter is live! We’re raising funds for our next two books, Reich #12 and Vortex. Please check out the description and our awesome rewards! We really need your help to make these next two books, so please donate...
Read moreLA Times interviews Elijah Brubaker!
David L. Ulin of the LA Times interviewed Reich creator Elijah Brubaker this week! “Once I got it into my head to do a biography, Reich was right there, waiting for me. As I read his work more closely, and read everything I could find about...
Read moreSparkplug Highlights: Matter Summer Special by Philip Barrett
Matter Summer Special by Philip Barrett is a casual trip through a few different dimensions. Two goofball stoners, Whitey White and Sean Brown, find themselves running dry in the herb department. After speculating on government conspiracy...
Read moreSparkplug Highlight: Windy Corner Magazine #3
Austin English curates another inspiring collection of work in Windy Corners Magazine #3. The table of contents by Molly Colleen O’Connell is especially eye-grabbing. Along with the opening pages by Lilli Carre, this issue begins with a...
Read moreA Late Summer Check In
Hi all! Hope you are having a good summer! If you have tried to order books from our website during the last couple months, you may have encountered a glitchy shopping cart or an internal server error notification. We have been having...
Read moreSparkplug Highlight: Windy Corner Magazine #2
I must say that I’m incredibly impressed and endeared by this issue of Windy Corner Magazine. I read it in two sittings because I spent so much time slowly reading and paying attention. Often it’s hard for me to take breaks from a...
Read moreSparkplug Highlight: Windy Corner Magazine #1
Windy Corners is a series edited by Austin English. This issue features two ongoing comics by English, “Life of Francis” and “My Earliest Memory”, as well as an interview with Portland cartoonist Andrice Arp. There are...
Read moreRob Clough Reviews Hungry Summer!
Once again Rob Clough reviews a Sparkplug Mini! Hungry Summer by Asher Z Craw is one of our latest releases, and we are cheered by Rob’s apt writing! Here is an excerpt: “Craw’s quasi-autobiographical comic, Zebediah, was...
Read moreRob Clough Reviews Golem of Gabirol!
The ever-on point Rob Clough reviewed Olga Volozova’s Golem of Gabirol! We are honored to have Rob take a look at our books. Here’s an excerpt: ” For Volozova herself (who dedicated the book to her late husband, who was...
Read moreWebsite Maintenance & a Hungry Summer review!
Hey all! If you’re trying to visit our site today or have tried to in the past couple days, you’ll notice it isn’t there or looks weird. Milo, our wonderful web-go-to guy, has been doing some work and ironing out the...
Read moreSparkplug Books Will Be At Portland Zine Symposium!
Hello all! We will be tabling at the Portland Zine Symposium this weekend (July 12&13) at table 37B! Come say hello and check out our new releases, as well as our wonderful selection of other books~ The event will be in Portland, Oregon...
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