Ringing in the tide of the yule a couple of the weeks early with this most glorious of outtakes (number the ninth) from the photo sessions for the Psycho Nurse! 2011 Calendar – covering thee full year of the rabbit from January 2011 through January 2012. Psycho Nurse! received a lovely...
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I seem to be a big deal. Hello to all those on the Apple Campus wondering who this smiling fellow is. Yes, the newest issue of Cupertino California’s The C – Cupertino Magazine, features yours truly, Marc Arsenault on the cover. It can be picked up at various locations around town...
Read moreThis Saturday Dec. 11th in Portland Virginia and Emily will be coordinating the Sparkplug table and selling books at the Indie Lit Roadshow REDEFINE magazine and PILOT BOOKS are teaming up to bring you an afternoon of literary readings, music, and a pop-up book shop just in time for the...
Read moreSparkplug’ll be traveling to the South to got to two shows around the Bay Area. On Saturday Dec. 11th in Berkeley, CA the East Bay Alternative Press Book Fair will be going from 10am-4pm at the Berkeley City College (2050 Center St. in Berkeley, CA). This show looks to be seriously awesome...
Read moreDec. 11th 6-9pm: Zak Sally, Jason T. Miles, Max Clottfelter, Chris Cilla and more will be at the Fantagraphics Bookstore in Seattle, Wa for the Medieval Thinkers show and 4th anniversary of the Bookstore. Mark your social calendars in indelible ink! Saturday, December 11 marks the 4th...
Read more2010 really is the year sound art broke. I predict that Susan Philipsz will be the ‘next Susan Boyle’; and her sales of Scottish folksong CDs will make that £25,000 Turner prize money look like small change. Currently her recordings are only available to listen to in the environments...
Read moreHey, I like it. Cosmogramma deserved to get nods on every Grammy they makes. You can find Flying Lotus on thee Twitter, thee MySpaceship and on his own site.
Read moreJohn Torreano Variety Hour – Tuesday December 7th, 8pm, $10 John Torreano was last seen at the Gershwin in February 2000 with his show Sex, Love, Art and Things In-Between. He is back as monologist and MC for the show on December 7, in the Large Room, starting at 8:00. He will be presenting his...
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It’s not a big secret that I am a huge fan of Nuisance. I booked them twice for shows in Western Massachusetts. Once at a spectacularly disastrous warehouse show in Florence (at the Arts & Industry building, now home to Ecstatic Peace/Father Yod, then the home to Wow Cool, Al Columbia...
Read moreScroll down to see a cool recommendation for Julia Gfrörer’s Flesh & Bone by Peter Gutierrez: http://graphicnovelreporter.com/content/gnrs-2010-favorites-best-list
Read moreSparkplug favorite Katy Ellis O’Brien has updated her site: “Rejoice! The new trumpetflower.net is here, with lots of new artwork. Most notably, “The Kilkenny Cats” is now available online in its complete form! If you missed the gallery show, you can now read the...
Read moreFrom Sparkplug comrade Jason T. Miles comes much news: please check out the following links as i think you might find them interesting the FIRST LINK is an profanity hill update and announcement for the medieval thinkers artshow i’ve been putting together with max clotfelter the...
Read moreFrom our buddy Carye: Hello friends! Just a little note to let you know about to Holiday sales I’m in the next two weekends and to announce my Red Bat Press’s hand printed 2011 Calendar Cards. Online at http://redbatpress.com/shop_calendarcards.htm . This year for me has been all...
Read moreVirginia Paine will be running the Sparkplug table at the Brooklyn Comics and Graphics Festival tomorrow, Saturday the 4th. The Brooklyn Comics and Graphics Festival is a one-day festival of cartoon and graphic art featuring artists and publishers displaying and selling publications; lectures...
Read moreDear Portland, This weekend I will be selling prints, original art, wallets, stuffed monster and animal guy magnets and more at the Splendorporium SplendorCraft Gift Sale. I’m sharing a table with Allie Tiedeman, who will be selling luxuriously scented handcrafted...
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Psycho Donuts have all the nutritional value of living human flesh that the undead need. Proof! The latest from the photo shoots for the Psycho Nurse! 2011 Psycho Donuts 13-Month Calendar out-takes. Extra Gruesome view of Zombie after...
Read moreOne of my favorite underground comix maestros (J.T. Dockery) has begun a review blog where he is talking about Chris Cilla’s The Heavy Hand and Tom Neely’s Doppleganger. This bodes well for the future of comics in America...
Read moreRenée French DRAWINGS December 7 – January 15, 2011 Reception: Tues., Dec. 7, 6-8pm ADAM BAUMGOLD GALLERY 60 East 66th ST., NY, NY 10065 (212)861-7338 ..Adam Baumgold Gallery presents an exhibition of 100 intimately scaled graphite on vellum drawings by Renée French from her new graphic...
Read more“Brooklyn-based musician and visual artist Jason Martin records on 4 track near his upstate NY home in a haunted cabin by a lake that used to be a valley of towns and Indian settlements. Some of them were his ancestors. This album crashes through deconstructed folk, gospel-tinged noise, a...
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Go get these on for yourselfness Aaron Smith – of Scientific Maps, nickname: Rebel, Stars of Rock and Evolution Revolution fame – has been mixing it up on the wheels of steel on the Bat Terrible show, Thursdays at 4pm, on WCDB 90.9FM in Albany, New York. He’s been spinning...
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If you’re looking for holiday gifts and/or you’ve been wanting to help out artist/activist Dara Greenwald (and her partner Josh MacPhee) in their financial/emotional/medical battle against cancer and expensive chemotherapy bills, now is your chance! Dara’s friends have created an incredible...
Read moreRina Ayuyang has been interviewed by Tom Spurgeon at Comics Reporter. She has a lot of great stuff to say an it is a joy to read. Take a look: http://www.comicsreporter.com/index.php/cr_sunday_interview_rina_ayuyang/
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So… you’ve read Rip It Up and Start Again, and Simon Reynolds follow-up Totally Wired, and are ass-deep in post-punk lore and legend and spend your days wandering the record stalls humming “She Is Beyond Good and Evil” by the Pop Group. And you start to wonder…...
Read moreSparkplug will be at two shows in the next couple weeks and we have a new book for you. We are premiering Habitat #2 by Dunja Jankovic, the sequel to her Department of Art. Robert Sergel, Virginia Paine and Zack Soto will be running the Sparkplug table at the Brooklyn Comics and...
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