We at Sparkplug are continuing our busy festival schedule and would love to see you at this awesome event we’re attending! This weekend, August 31st and September 1st, is the San Francisco Zine Fest. Emily Nilsson will be tabling...
Read moreWayne White at TEDxKC 2013
The great Wayne White did his thing recently at TEDxKC. You can stream the whole event online. Wayne closes the show starting after this introduction at 03:27:22 or so. Learn more about Wayne White on this site here.
Read moreSparkplug at The Projects This Weekend!
Hi everyone! Come see us this weekend at The Projects, Portland’s free festival celebrating experimental comics and narrative art forms. There will be four days of workshops, exhibitions, panels, performances, and more at various locations...
Read moreNew in the Store: Reich #10 and Eye of the Majestic Creature #3 and 5!
Have you been reading Elijah Brubaker’s thrilling biography of Wilhelm Reich, the controversial psychoanalyst, sex researcher, and protege of Freud? Have you been anxiously awaiting the next installment of Brubaker’s stark and...
Read moreMothers News Archives Online Now
Hey, folks, come dig this. The beloved Mothers News – the Paper of Record from Providence, Rhode Island – has made its archives available for free online at Archive.org. Every issue of the RI broadsheet is avaialble for download in...
Read moreSparkplug Highlights: Wuvable Oaf, by Ed Luce
We are super excited to announce that we have copies of Wuvable Oaf #0-4 back in the store! If you haven’t picked up this series yet, you no longer have any excuses — you simply must read it. Really, it has something for everyone...
Read moreSparkplug Highlights: Yeah, It Is! by Leslie Anne Mackenzie Stein
Yeah, It Is! is a beautiful little book about Mack, a teenage girl. It takes a quiet look at growing up and some of the trials and experiences that come along with it: missing friends who’ve moved away, feeling irritated with the ones...
Read moreNew in the Store: Vortex #3 and Eye of the Majestic Creature #1 and 2!
We have some awesome new additions to the store today! First up, we have issue #3 of William Cardini’s incredibly strange and visually arresting Vortex. In this issue, the Miizzzard is lost in the Vortex dreamworld, his fate unknown. What...
Read moreSparkplug at Autoptic This Sunday, August 18th!
Are you going to be in Minneapolis this Sunday? Come see us at Autoptic! It is a free, one-day festival celebrating independent culture that features comics, zines, art, and music. Special guests include Jaime Hernandez, Marc Bell, Jim Rugg...
Read moreWhat Makes A Man Start Fires?
Average and boring humans can talk about double nickels, ballot results and mersh projects until the spiel comes home… but I want to know this..
Read moreThe Outliers #1 by Erik T. Johnson Out Now
A school bus is forced off a cliff by a vehicle in pursuit of a legendary woodland giant. Secrets are revealed when it’s young passenger, a boy known for his inability to speak, commands the giant to in an unknown language. Exposed as link...
Read moreSparkplug Highlights: Orchid, edited by Ben Catmull and Dylan Williams
Do you love tales of the macabre and Gothic fiction? Do you get a thrill from being subtly horrified, eerily unsettled? Do you like amazing black-and-white art, anthologies, and juxtapositions of the work of talented modern artists and classic...
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