Ce/Ze, the fourth book in the Sparkplug Minis Series, is Suzette Smith’s dreamlike take on Sci-Fi/Fantasy. Amelia Smith and Honey Czarny are 7th grade girls who discover that they share fragmented memories of another world in which they were...
Read moreSparkplug Highlight: Dumb by Georgia Webber
The Dumb series is Georgia Webber’s multi-disciplinary exploration of what it means to live without a voice after sustaining a vocal chord injury that required her to speak less than thirty minutes a day for months. Each issue addresses an aspect...
Read moreFree Comic Book Day at Wow Cool Alternative Comics
The Wow Cool® Alternative Comics store in Cupertino is having it’s second annual Free Comic Book Day event from 10am-7pm on Saturday, May 2nd. There will be tons of free comics for kids and adults, arts and crafts activities for kids, a...
Read moreLinework NW this weekend!
Sparkplug will be at Linework NW here in Portland this Sunday! Linework is free and open to the public – doors open at noon. We’ll be debuting our newest book, Ce/Ze by Suzette Smith. I (Virginia) will also be part of a...
Read moreSparkplug Highlight: Wicked Chicken Queen by Sam Alden
Wicked Chicken Queen is a story of birth and death, loneliness and loss, told in two parts. An isolated island community discovers an egg that hatches into an enormous chicken. The society flourishes under the chicken queen’s rule, but is...
Read moreATTN Retailers! Free Comic Book Day solicit for 2015
Sparkplug, Teenage Dinosaur, Snakebomb and Floating World join forces again to bring you their 2015 Free Comic Book Anthology – FREE STOOGES. Eight Portland artists present new masterpieces guaranteed to take your face on a wild trip. These...
Read moreSparkplug Highlight: Bird Girl and Fox Girl by Yumi Sakugawa
This 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...
Read moreOur next book, Ce/Ze by Suzette Smith, will debut at Linework NW this month!
Sparkplug at RIPE!
Sparkplug is going to be in Providence for RIPExpo on March 28-29! I’ll have a good selection of our books, plus new minis of The WHYs, my webcomic. I’ll also be on a panel about small press publishing on Sunday the...
Read moreSparkplug Highlights: #FOODPORN by Meghan Turbitt
#FOODPORN details Meghan’s sexual obsession with anyone and everyone who makes or serves her food or drinks. A repulsive pizza chef is transformed through the act of food preparation into a sexy pizza-delivering god. Meghan eats tacos off of the...
Read moreKickstart This: CHAINMAIL BIKINI: The Anthology of Women Gamers
Chainmail Bikini is an anthology of comics by and about female gamers! 40 cartoonists have contributed 200+ pages of all new stories about the games they’re passionate about—from video games to table-top role-playing to collectible card...
Read moreMaximum Rocknroll 383 the Comics and Art Special
It’s time for Maximum Rocknroll #383, April 2015, the Comics and Art special issue, guest coordinated by famed MRR columnist Monsieur Alex Simon. Featuring a cover by everyone’s favorite Mexican miscreant, Abraham Diaz, we threw over the written...
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