To help promote our Fall Books Kickstarter, we’ll be putting up the first three pages of Reich #12 this week. Please check them out and take a moment to get into the story. Then consider contributing or sharing! This book...
Read moreSparkplug Highlight: Keep Fresh by Zejian Shen
Keep Fresh by Zeijan Shen is one of many comics we brought in recently! This minicomic definitely keeps fresh itself – the inking is beautiful with dark halftones. Most of the text is in Chinese with English translations at the bottom...
Read moreReich #12 pg 2 – a sneak peek in conjuction with our Kickstarter!
To help promote our Fall Books Kickstarter, we’ll be putting up the first three pages of Reich #12 this week. Please check them out and take a moment to get into the story. Then consider contributing or sharing! This book...
Read moreSparkplug at SPX!
Are you stoked for SPX? We’re stoked for SPX! We’ll have a small but excellent selection of books at the expo this weekend. I(Virginia) won’t be there, but Ignatz-nominated artist Yumi Sakugawa will be covering...
Read moreReich #12 pg 1 – a sneak peek in conjuction with our Kickstarter!
To help promote our Fall Books Kickstarter, we’ll be putting up the first three pages of Reich #12 this week. Please check them out and take a moment to get into the story. Then consider contributing or sharing! This book...
Read moreKickstart This: Sparkplug Fall Books
Sparkplug Books needs your help to publish their next two books: Reich #12 by Elijah Brubaker and Vortex by William Cardini. That’s all you should need to know. Go on, get to it. Get over to Kickstarter and give Sparkplug lots of money!
Read moreGo Read: Capitol Contingency 90s D.C. Music History
Capitol Contingency: Post-Punk, Indie Rock, and Noise Pop in Washington, D.C., 1991-1999 by Brandon Gentry is the sort of book about the D.C. indie scene(s) I’ve long wanted to read. My needs were pretty simple on this, something along the...
Read moreSparkplug Highlight: Danny Dutch by David King
An experimental comic featuring four-panel strips on each page, Danny Dutch is an existential run through the minds of a few sad saps. I really have no clue what the heck David King is talking about, because I don’t have the same foolhardy...
Read moreThe Kickstarter for our fall books has launched!
Our Kickstarter is live! We’re raising funds for our next two books, Reich #12 and Vortex. Please check out the description and our awesome rewards! We really need your help to make these next two books, so please donate...
Read moreLA Times interviews Elijah Brubaker!
David L. Ulin of the LA Times interviewed Reich creator Elijah Brubaker this week! “Once I got it into my head to do a biography, Reich was right there, waiting for me. As I read his work more closely, and read everything I could find about...
Read moreSparkplug Highlights: Matter Summer Special by Philip Barrett
Matter Summer Special by Philip Barrett is a casual trip through a few different dimensions. Two goofball stoners, Whitey White and Sean Brown, find themselves running dry in the herb department. After speculating on government conspiracy...
Read moreKickstart This: CBGB Punk Photos by GODLIS 1976-1979 The BOOK
David Godlis very generously provided his 1977 portrait of Ramones designer Arturo Vega for the print and digital memorials in Maximum RocknRoll that I produced with John Holmstrom last year. I am very grateful for that and would like you to take...
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