Sparkplug Comic Books is going to both MoCCA Fest and Stumptown Comics Fest and we’ll be premiering new books at each show. The MoCCA Festival is this weekend in Manhattan, NYC Saturday April 9th and Sunday April 10th 11am-6pm. It will be...
Read moreHello, Gay Genius and Dan Quayl!
We are busy at Sparkplug today! Two more just-printed books for you – the completely amazing anthology Gay Genius (edited by superstar Annie Murphy) and a multi-publisher, Portland-centric collaboration called Dan Quayl (a steal at just...
Read moreIndie Street Radio on Sausage Hand and Windy Corner #3
Indie Street Radio posted two great reviews, one of Sausage Hand and the other of Windy Corner #3. Take a look: Sausage Hand:http://indiestreetradio.com/news/indie-street-reads-65 WC#3: http://indiestreetradio.com/news/indie-street-reads-63
Read moreThe Disgusting Room and Reich #8 out today!
Yes! Today we have two brand new books in the shop! The newest issue of Elijah Brubaker’s fascinating Reich series, Reich #8 and Austin English’s The Disgusting Room.Reich #8 tackles the beginning of Wilhelm Reich’s new life in...
Read more13 Minutes on Habitat #2
Habitat #2 by Dunja Jankovic just got a great review at 13 Minutes by Justin Giampaoli: http://thirteenminutes.blogspot.com/2011/03/surveying-habitat.html
Read moreFamily Store on Heavy Hand
The Family Store in LA is carrying The Heavy Hand by Chris Cilla and they’ve written a really thorough discussion of the book on their blog: http://blog.familylosangeles.com/2011/03/heavy-hand.html
Read moreEverything is coming up Tessa Brunton!
Tessa Brunton (creator of In the Tall Grass) has a gallery show opening in 3 days at the Cartoon Art Museum in San Francisco, CA. http://cartoonart.org/2011/03/small-press-spotlight-on-tessa-brunton/ The show will be up March 26th through June...
Read moreMilk and Moo, Service Industry and more!
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 moreThe Heavy Hand, Neptune and Whirlwind Wonderland are released by Diamond!
Diamond Comics stores will be putting The Heavy Hand, Neptune and Whirlwind Wonderland on their shelves this Wednesday. Make sure to stop by and take a look. And if that weren’t enough Joe Mcculloch wrote a great piece on the Heavy Hand at...
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...
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