A good review of David King’s Lemon Styles and Julia Gfrörer’s Flesh & Bone at Bookgasm, thanks to Rod Lott: http://www.bookgasm.com/reviews/comics/serious-issues-11-2-10/
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Flesh & Bone, Lemon Styles and the Heavy Hand get the Homemade Komics treatment in this review by Larned Justin: http://homemadekomics.blogspot.com/2010/11/three-new-books-from-sparkplug-comics.html
Read moreAustin English Art Sale!
Austin English’s new book “the Disgusting Room” is done (Sparkplug’ll have a preview of it at the Brooklyn Comics Fest in December) and he is selling artwork. The book itself will be out in early 2011. If you are...
Read moreTwin Peaks Art Show in Portland this Friday!
Sean 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 moreNew today! Rum Lad #4, The Wall #1 and more!
Today we added four comics by British artists! Rum Lad #4 by Steve Larder, Morgenmuffel #17 by Isy, and The Death of a Salesman and The Wall #1 by Edd Baldry. All excellent, all punk/activist/politically themed. Rum Lad has some seriously...
Read moreGay Genius is going on Kickstarter
The anthology Gay Genius (to be co-published with Sparkplug) has a kickstarter. Please think about donating if you haven’t yet. It is about half way with 32 days to go.
Read moreNew in the Store: Gazeta Anthology and Crime World #2
Today in the store we added Gazeta: Comics from Bangkok to Belgrade, a beautiful anthology of world comics; and David E. King’s brand new Crime World #2. Also the Danny Dutch Gocco-printed luggage tags are back!
Read moreRead About Flesh and Bone
Greg McElhatton has given Flesh and Bone a good review at Read About Comics. http://www.readaboutcomics.com/2010/10/06/flesh-and-bone/ Read on.
Read moreThe Whale by Aidan Koch is released.
AIDAN KOCH & GAZE BOOKS PRESENTE THE WHALE RELEASE PARTY 10/21/10 6-9PM SKETCHES + EMAILS FOOD + DRINK 1137 SE 16TH AVE PORTLAND, OR You can look at the book and purchase it here: http://www.gazebooks.com/ It is great, I read it in the...
Read moreNew in the Store!
Fresh in the Store today: Carrie McNinch’s You Don’t Get There From Here #16, Vanessa Davis’ Kitchen Conniption and my very own The Warehouse on Poplar. Also check out the revamped pages for Mats?!’s Asiaddict, Ted...
Read moreSparkplug Comic Books will be at APE this weekend. Saturday and Sunday October 16th & 17th. There will be a group of us: Julia Wertz, David King, Virginia Paine, Tim Goodyear, Rina Ayuyang, Tim Root, Sophie Yanow, Renee French and Chris...
Read moreSparkplug on Poopsheet!
A gang of Sparkplug books just got reviewed at Poopsheet, a great site! Chris Cilla’s The Heavy Hand: http://poopsheetfoundation.com/forums/reviews/115-the-heavy-hand-by-chris-cilla-review-by-justin-giampaoli Elijah Brubaker’s Reich...
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