Although this here blog has been pretty quiet for a week or so, we have been far from idle at Wow Cool / Alternative Comics HQ. Most recently we have upgraded our web servers, so WowCool.com, IndyWorld.com, MagicWhistle.com and several other...
Read moreNoah Xifr’s Kickstarter campaign for his new book is mere hours from it’s end and he could use your help.
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Follow the red dot… enter new worlds. With surprisingly less fanfare than usual, Radiohead has released something new into the world. PolyFauna is a mobile and tablet app that takes audio elements from the King of Limbs sessions and visuals...
Read moreHey all! Sparkplug will be tabling at LA Zine Fest this Sunday, February 16th, at Helms Bakery in Los Angeles. For more info on the fest, click here. We’ll have our normal, awesome collection of books and zines PLUS...
Read moreA friend of a friend said that she found another of Sakugawa‘s comics to be very sad. I agree, but I think they are my favorite kind of melancholy: the kind that reminds you that, however impermanent this world is, there is a place...
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Simon Hanselmann’s full color, 64 page book Life Zone is now in our shop. Also back in stock from Space Face Books is Michael DeForge’s The Boy in Question and the Rat Hex anthology.
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As noted recently, newly added to our shop is the greatest career retrospective yet released of Quebec’s ‘Pope of Comics’ Henriette Valium. This book comes from a new publisher from the little heard from country of Macedonia...
Read moreHELLO ALL! Hope you are enjoying your winter and New Year so far! Sparkplug has a couple announcements for you. First, due to some paper mix ups, Reich #11 is taking a little longer than expected to print. It is still available to...
Read moreDave Allen and Ivor Cutler together? Yes, I need to watch this. You are saying that now. You are welcome. A BBC production from 1974. Dave Allen also hosted “Eccentrics at Play” the same year for the BBC. Dave Allen meets a man named...
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Floating World has delivered the second of their massive oversized really damn big tabloid editions of Jonny Negron’s sci-fi series Adapt, and we have them here as well as having the first issue back in stock. About a bajilion more, well...
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The mighty Inkstuds podcast and radio show has logged 500 episodes in just over eight years. The guests for this landmark episode are Frank Santoro and Brandon Graham. Go give a listen. Special guests Frank Santoro and Brandon Graham help me...
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Just arrived in our shop is Insect Bath, the new anthology of cosmic horror edited by Jason T. Miles. Includes comics by: Max Clotfelter (Henry & Glenn Forever), Alex Delaney (Rapt in Fear), Eamon Espey (Wormdye and Songs of the Abyss), Noel...
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