A series of frames from the Parallax Corporation training montage from the 1974 Alan J. Pakula film The Parallax View. “The montage also uses a drawing by Jack Kirby of the Marvel Comics character Thor. The drawing is a cropped image from the cover of Thor Annual #4 (December 1971), which...
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Lambda Literary published this great review of Ebin Lee’s A Wretch Like Me.
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Suzette Smith gave us a shout out in her Portland Mercury article about Vision Quest #4, a free paper that features a comic by former Sparkplug publisher Emily Nilsson. And Comic Book Resources did a spotlight on Whit Taylor, author of The Anthropologists.
Read moreHey LA! Sparkplug will have a table at LA Zine Fest this Sunday, March 6! It’s at the Majestic Downtown at 650 S. Spring St from 11am-6pm and is free to attend! We’ll be at booth 165. We hope to see you there!
Read moreDrive Like Jehu played in San Jose. I took some distorto-loud video of most of the encore. Enjoy.
Read moreHey friends! Lots of Sparkplug t-shirts just went on sale in the shop. Featuring illustrations by Dylan Williams, Renee French, and more! Check ’em out here!
Read moreCe/Ze, Suzette Smith’s dreamy take on science fiction/fantasy, follows two 7th graders who share a psychic link. Amelia Smith and Honey Czarny discover that they share fragmented memories of their past lives in another universe as powerful beings named Ce and Ze. A rival king’s plot to kill Ze...
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Hello friends, It is with mixed feelings that I must announce that I will be shutting down Sparkplug this year. I appreciate the opportunities that running Sparkplug has given me and the wonderful people it has introduced me to. I know Sparkplug means a lot to many people and I want to...
Read moreThis minicomic follows the threads of Bird Girl and Fox Girl’s lives after the dissolution of their friendship. Bird Girl moves from the desert to the city, where she works as a secretary, eventually saving up enough money for surgery to look like a human girl. Fox Girl becomes a daredevil...
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I lost a one-time bandmate the other day and comics lost one of its greatest champions. I’m still confused and shocked by the news. I rarely had the opportunity to just talk casually to Alvin Buenaventura away from something else going on. I’ve only known him for the last couple of...
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Five Frames from Jean Luc Godard’s 1967 film presented on tumblr in sequence. http://gritboy.tumblr.com/post/139220584708/two-or-three-things-i-know-about-her-jean-luc
Read moreDaniel Elkin and Jason Sacks wrote an excellent review of Reich for Comics Bulletin. Read it here!
Read moreWren and Miriam, two anthropology majors studying abroad in Australia, are selected for a trip to the Kimberley Desert to study aboriginal culture. While Miriam is overly enthusiastic and gung ho about the trip and meeting aboriginal people, Wren seems ambivalent about the trip and unsure of...
Read moreYou can now get all five issues of the Sparkplug Minis Series at once, for the low price of $25 (plus shipping)! Check it out here. Quantities are pretty limited for the complete set since we are nearly out of Yumi Sakugawa’s Bird Girl and Fox Girl.
Read moreThe inaugural title in the Sparkplug Minis series, Hungry Summer follows several characters’ interactions with Baba Yaga, a supernatural figure with roots in Slavic folklore. An ambiguous, witch-like character, Baba Yaga resides deep in the woods and has the ability to bless and curse in equal...
Read moreGreg Hunter did a great, thorough review of Ce/Ze for The Comics Journal. Read the full review here!
Read more“There’s just something awesome about seeing something, physically holding it, being able to sit with an image. That somebody can sit and look at it and interpret it anyway they want to. I think that’s pretty powerful.” Our friends at Bitch Magazine have interviewed...
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It’s been a year long wait since the last issue of Sam Henderson’s Magic Whistle. You pick up the latest edition at your local comic book shop. It’s the same basic size. It costs a dollar more. There are many more pages and artists in it then last time… but something is...
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Cyber 2 Days Sale at Wow Cool Alternative Comics Every order from Wow Cool.com completed from Noon Monday, November 30th through Midnight Tuesday evening, December 1st pacific time will be discounted 20%. Discount is applied when you add items to your cart. Dozens of already discounted items...
Read more“This is hard art. Unrelenting and necessary.” Daniel Elkin has written a wonderful review of Ebin Lee’s A Wretch Like Me, which debuted last month. Check out the full review here.
Read moreWe’ll be doing a pop up shop this weekend in Portland. Screaming Sky Gallery is a lovely little collectible toy shop and local art gallery and we’re honored to be hosted by them! Please stop by to check out the shop and pick up some books! The pop up is this Sunday...
Read moreSparkplug will be at Short Run this weekend! It’s on Saturday, October 31st (spooky!) from 11am-6pm at Fisher Pavilion at the Seattle Center. We’ll have kid-friendly postcard packs for trick-or-treaters and plenty of books, including the debut of our next book, A Wretch Like Me by...
Read moreWe’re so proud to tell you that Whit Taylor’s The Anthropologists was included in the 2015 Best American Comics notables list. If you haven’t checked out this excellent autobiographical examination of race and self, you can find it here in our webstore! There are so many...
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