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Read moreCooking Wine
So, in addition to MK and Nate’s reviews we are going to start a new feature on the Sparkplug Blog: The Book Report. Juliacks and Shannon O’Leary are going to hand-write up old fashioned style book reports on notable independent comic...
Read morenickname: Rebel Listen To Me 2008 finalist on Dandelion Radio
Genius DJ Mark Whitby has placed my band nickname: Rebel in the list of the final 10 nominees in his “Listen To Me 2008“. Tune in to his show on Dandelion Radio to hear who came out on top. Be sure to also check out the nine other...
Read moreMini Comics Reviews by Nate Doyle and MK Reed!
Our pals MK Reed and Nate Doyle have agreed to put their high falutin’ comics know-how to the test and are going to start reviewing Sparkplug distributed mini comics on a fairly regular basis. If you don’t know anything about Nate or...
Read moreNew Book by Floating World
FLOATING WORLD COMICS PRESENTS: DECEMBER 1ST THURSDAY: ‘THE CATERER’ COMIC BOOK RELEASE PARTY & ERASERHEAD PRESS PRESENTS: BIZARRO 30 years after the spectacular collapse of Pearl Comics, a celebration of the cause of that collapse –...
Read moreYou can't tell me some things weren't better back then…
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Read moreThis is simply the best ad ever: I can’t stop thinking about bowling
I am so in awe of this. I just stare at it and marvel at it’s brilliance. The card I got with this classic promo on it is for Strike… down the road from me about 2 miles in Cupertino, but apparently it is part of the same bowling...
Read morefognozzle Live at Godwaffle Noise Pancakes
Documentation of the latest performance from my old band without me… fognozzle. 15 blissful minutes of noisy goodness. I slept in that day.
Read morethree really great documentaries
So, I’ve been a bit crazy for the documentaries lately, three of them are particularly related to small publishing and independent books. The first is Paperback Dreams, a movie about Cody’s and Keppler’s...
Read moreDan Clowes documentary
Okay, so I’m sure this is old but I’d never seen this Dan Clowes documentary done by some Dutch people. It is really good. Thanks to Jim for the link.
Read moreLet’s clear a few things up before we get started…
Sampling is Illegal. Mailing copies of things to yourself does not give them copyright protection. Squarepusher knows more than you do. OK? Once we are all caught up, then we can move on.
Read moreComics Claptrip: The Sell-Out Episode
There is a brand new web-isode of Comics Claptrap up right now. This time the duo of our own modern day Lewis and Martin (Rina Ayuyang and Thien Pham) interview the ONE and ONLY JIM RUGG. I’m pretty excited and listening to it right...
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