Underground comic book legend S. Clay Wilson (Zap, Checkered Demon) suffered a severe brain injury back in November on his way home from the APE ahow. He’s making progress towards a recovery, but he needs much expensive therapy. Tomorrow, Sunday...
Read moreSparkplug will be moving to 6340 SE Foster Road in Portland. It is an office space that also has a storefront, where Tim Goodyear and I will be opening a t-shirt, book (no comics) and dvd store called “The Bad Apple” soon. The space...
Read moreAt the Loft in Sacramento, California. Some visitors here may have seen GHC at Albany, New York’s Loft… a venue much missed. More on this later…
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Christmas Day in the UK must be something special. There, like nowhere else, it seems to revolve around the day’s television programming. This year is truly something special, for along with the Queens address, Eastenders, Strictly Come...
Read moreShannon just sent me this awesomely scary article from Salon. I haven’t read it all yet. It is interesting that panic is sort of affecting a lot of people. More later.http://www.salon.com/books/feature/2008/12/23/publishing/index.html
Read moreElijah Brubaker’s Reich made it onto the Forbidden Planet (the English one) blog, on Dan Goldman’s best of the year! Wonderful news as Elijah is right now wrapping up work on #6.
Read morePoints to keep in mind. As I try to do! (and often fail, I might add!) By Alex Toth Eliminate the Superfluous, the unnecessary. Be lazy! Edit your art continuously, at every stage. Save work! Focus on the remaining (important) picture elements...
Read moreFrom Rob Clough: This is a note to let everyone know that since the sequart.com website is down due to server issues, I decided to temporarily move my High-Low column to this url: http://highlowcomics.blogspot.com/ I apologize for any...
Read moreVenus in Blue Jeans, Venus in Furs /All the Ancient Kings- Julia Gfrorer: These two I picked up because the covers looked gorgeous, and then I got home and opened them up and the insides were not as enchanting. Venus has a few pages that show off...
Read moreA must read interview with Chris Cilla on Top Drawer, by Luke P.http://10drawerquestions.blogspot.com/2008/12/chris-cilla.htmlChris is one of my favorite comic artists.
Read morehttp://comixclaptrap.blogspot.com/Wow, the Claptrap is rolling along. There have been a couple great episodes. And a lot of interesting commentary. In spite of the fact that Thien Pham is now trying to get in my pants like Daniel Meade from Ugly...
Read moreHey, so I’m part of a GREAT show that is currently up at the Pony Club Gallery in Portland, OR. There are some amazing artists in the show including a lot of Sparkplug published ones and people we distribute. Please go take a look at the...
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