Hello everyone, Steven Cerio here. I had a few things to mention. 1. The new site www.stevencerio.com is coming along. Only a few things up right now. It’ll have all of the modern amenities modern computer people have come to expect, including a blog (I have hundreds of posts prepared) and...
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Old Wow Cool friend Ion (aka Infinity) and AVOID launch the Babel Code show this Friday, May 21 from 6 to 9 pm at Mighty Tanaka Studio in D.U.M.B.O. The show runs through Jun 11th, 2010. More about the show on Brooklyn Street Art Thought provoking Street Artists AVOID pi & infinity team up...
Read moreRina Ayuyang has put up her convention report for the Toronto Comics Arts Festival. She went, representing Sparkplug in all her awesomeness. Check it out:rinadoodle.blogspot.com/2010/05/hot-times-in-cold-places.html
Read moreCall Out FOR TABLING MATERIALS FOR Anarchist/ANTI-AUTHORITARIAN People of Colour for Montreal Anarchist Bookfair 2010! Anarchist/ANTI-AUTHORITARIAN People of Colour (APOC) Montreal is seeking MATERIALS for our table at the Montreal Anarchist Bookfair taking place May 29-30, 2010. Over the years...
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We weren’t kidding about this year of the sound art business. Former Brown Cuts Neighbors bass thumper Seth Cluett is the subject of an interview on WNET’s Inside Thirteen today. Seth will be presenting Three Forms of Forgetting at Roulette in New York City this Sunday, May 16. It...
Read moreHere is a recap of Rina Ayuyang’s most recent tour to promote Whirlwind Wonderland:rinadoodle.blogspot.com/2010/05/whirlwinding-into-pittsburgh-pa.html
Read moreThe world has surely gone mad this week, as it appears that people suddenly care about things like sound art and field recordings. It must be Spring. Following is a roundup of the last few days sudden massive interest in sound. To set the mood, please enjoy this clip of Suzanne Ciani on 3-2-1...
Read moreTom Neely just got interviewed at Decibel magazine:decibelmagazine.com/Content.aspx?ncid=370297About his Igloo Tornado and comics/metal.
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Simon Gane previews some full-color art on his blog from his forthcoming adaptation of F.Scott Fitzgerald’s “A Luckless Santa Claus”, part of Christmas Classics: Graphic Classics vol. 19. This special edition of Graphics Classics also features Rick Geary and Hunt Emerson (a...
Read moreJoin Scott Smallwood and Stephan Moore (AKA EVIDENCE) to eat, drink, and make merry as we explore the Atlantic Yards one last time. Part elegy, part revenge fantasy, and part rock opera, A QUESTION OF DOMAIN is a roving art adventure in celebration and lamentation of Brooklyn’s Atlantic...
Read moreHello, just a quick note or two about this site as it continues to grow and heave. UPDATED: The Wow Cool Shop is all the way live! More images and samples to be added soon. We currently have 70 different items available – Books, CDs, T-shirts, Vinyl Records and much more. A section has...
Read moreRina Ayuyang will be representing Sparkplug Comic Books at this year’s TCAF in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. She will be signing copies of her debut graphic novel Whirlwind Wonderland, co-published by Sparkplug and Tugboat Press. She’ll also have new minicomics and all the latest Sparkplug releases...
Read moreThe Fall: The Wonderful and Frightening World of Mark E. Smith is a marvelous BBC documentary from a few years back that I was pointed to by Richard Metzger. It is available to see on YouTube in nine parts. The first part is above. Around when nickname: Rebel started up, me and Mike used to
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Get it now at a special low price. Release – Tuesday, June 8, 2010.
Read moreThe quote below is from CBGXtra.com CBG is the Comic Buyer’s Guide, a comic book industry watch dog for something like 30 or 40 years, I think. It was the voice that retailers listened to when I worked in a comic store in 1989-94 or whatever it was. I am really interested in the Black
Read moreHaunted Happenings PDX, a horror focused website just put up a great interview with Julia Gfrörer about her work and Flesh and Bone. Read it now here:www.hauntedhappeningspdx.com
Read moreor, I swear, I shall close every last one of these tabs, continued. CD Baby Interviews Dave Allen (currently a music marketing genius, formerly a member of Gang of Four and Shriekback), with much coverage of Dave’s challenge to musicians to be brilliant or get out of the way. Be sure to...
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I’ve watched this documentary on EMS (Electronic Music Studios) every few months since I first discovered it. MAKE magazine blogged it a few days ago. I recently saw this awesome ad for the EMS VCS3 (below) at the excellent Issues Newsstand in Oakland, CA. Watch all three parts. Comprised...
Read moreSparkplug best buddy Tom Neely has been interviewed quite well by Molossus. Loads of new info and talk about poetry and wolves:Part1Part2 Pleasing!
Read morePortland Illustrated: Neighborhood Notes on four radical Portland cartoonists that you need to know about, including Julia Gfrörer author of Sparkplug’s new Flesh and Bone. The other three are also pretty damn great too.
Read moreShe’ll be at TCAF in Toronto for Sparkplug next Saturday and on Wednesday in Pittsburgh, PA: Cartoonist and author Rina Ayuyang will be reading selections from her graphic novel “Whirlwind Wonderland” at Pittsburgh’s Toonseum on Wednesday, May 5th at 6:00 p.m. Rina, a...
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The Wow Cool Garden has taken a lot of bloody work. Four 4’x8′ raised beds. Redwood. 128 Square Feet. 9 cubic yards of soil. Over a ton of rock for the path (scored those babies on freecycle). Man, my back hurts. Lots going on. Stay tuned.
Read moreThis Saturday (May 1st) Tugboat Press, Teenage Dinosaur and Sparkplug Comic Books are proud to present a free comic book available at comic book stores nationwide this Saturday. Six new artists to flip your lid: Sean Christensen (cover), David Wien (back cover), Nicole Georges, Jesse Reklaw, Tom...
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Old friend and occasional collaborator Michael Hotter releases his band Swamp Baby’s CD today, Tuesday, April 27, 2010, on Collar City Records. Full Color, 6 panel jacket, with original artwork by Phil Pascuzzo (again!). Get yours here. or download here:
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