Intergalactico is the creative/multidisciplinary studio founded by designer, artist and illustrator, Chris Capuozzo; and the website received its official launch today. You may know his stuff from his work with Funny Garbage or the last Paper Rodeo, or even some moldy old issues of Wow...
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Longtime Wow Cool affiliated act (stay tuned for more on that) Evidence, has dropped a new disk on us. Receiver is a CD-length composition in thirteen parts that was collaboratively created in multiple phases. Musical sounds and textures intended for radio broadcast were composed over the course...
Read moreAre you ready? DO YOU THINK YOU CAN HANDLE IT!!?? Well, do you? OK, then, try me. Take the plunge. Take the test!
Read moreThis is a pretty cool little chat with and about Adam Yauch’s various attempts at running a small business. Not just handling his business by running it and milking it. Shannon O’Leary passed this on to me.http://www.nytimes.com/2008/09/09/movies/09yauc.html?pagewanted=1&_r=1
Read moreIt is simply amazing to get to hear Anke F. talk about her arthttp://nigelbeale.com/?p=904Also more new (to me) pictures by her here:http://steinroetter.de/ENGartistsFeuchtenberger.htmAnd her site, of course:http://www.feuchtenbergerowa.de/(thanks Renee)
Read moreWhoa. Trevor Alixopulos is interviewed on Ink Studs. I am assuming it is awesome, but I haven’t listened to it yet. I’m doing that right next. (the guy with Trevor in the photo is the one and only Eric Nebel).
Read moreZoo District #7 – Adventures in Excitement is a 28 page black and white digest with color covers by Marc Arsenault (that’s me) collecting various comics and drawings spanning several years. A few strips appeared previously in Brian Ralph’s Monster, Paper Rodeo, Roarin’...
Read morewelcome to the Dahl House by ken Dahlas read by austin english I read ken dahls new book on my lunch break…I work at forbidden planet in new york city and can literally pick ANY comic to read at lunch. ANY single comic…I could have read the new scorchy smith collection or the new al...
Read moreI’ve been reading an amazing series that ran in Maximum R&R two years ago. It is basically just a series of interviews with people who run small businesses in and around punk rock and roll. There are a ton of different opinions and a lot of insight. I recommend this series for anyone...
Read moreLast weekend Minty Lewis and Damien Jay got married! Minty and Damien’s comics are both available in the Sparkplug Comic Books Store and both are good pals of the Sparkplug familia. The wedding was a total blast! At the end of the night, pretty much everyone looked like this: Isn’t...
Read moreSo, I just put up a bunch of David King’s comics on the Sparkplug Store (the tab on the side there). Go take a look. Supplies are limited and you’ll want to get them all, for real.
Read moreIn October Sparkplug will be at both the SPX comics fest AND the Richmond Zine Fest in Richmond, VA. I’ll write more about it but mark the dates on your calendars:RZF: Saturday October 11thSPX: Saturday & Sunday October 4th and 5thBe there!
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Much amazing Banksy art is up in New Orleans and gaining worldwide attention, just as a total evacuation of the city has been ordered to escape Huricane Gustav… flickr pool boingboing post banksy.co.uk And in the planning for RNC MPLS: “A senior McCain source said Saturday that...
Read moreCome and submerge your retina in Mats!?&Jeff Roysdon’s latest opticalcompositions entitled: Horror Vacuuim!www.matstuff.blogspot.com
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I’ve known Jack Tu for a few years now and have watched in awe as he tore up the U.S. martial arts competition circuit and then went to China to even greater success. Recently he was named Jackie Chan’s first ever disciple. A few days ago he made an appearance in America to...
Read moreA friend of mine told me about this “mission statement” by Robert Kirkman. It is totally fascinating. I don’t think I ever fully understand what those guys who go to Marvel/DC superheroes from doing their own stuff but this helps a little. It is actually kind of sad but if you...
Read moreThe wonderfully talented Katie Skelly was just interviewed on Sequart by Rob Clough. She gives lots of insight to her work and history as well as saying some nice things about Sparkplug. http://www.sequart.org/columns/?column=2213
Read moreThis is the handout from the Small Press Comics/Zine Publishing panel workshop that I ran with Greg Means, and Aron Nels Steinke at the Portland Zine Symposium. How and why run small press / comic book publishing businesses, including the basics of printing, publishing, and distribution. Dylan...
Read moreI’m at a terminal bar in MSP – The Minneapolis/St. Paul Airport, a few stools down from me is a woman who has an astounding resemblance to Catherine Tate. And her personality is like one of Tate’s characters from her old show, but American. It’s kind of amazing, she has...
Read moreTom Spurgeon reviews Jeff Levine’s Stumblers over at The Comics Reporter.
Read moreThe surprise hit of SDCC for me was the sale of my Moby Dick giclée prints. I only had 10 of them, and sold out in a couple of hours. Well, I’ve got 20 left and then they are gone. They are now available to order through the i will destroy you store for $250
Read moreA obvious place to start. Ian Mackaye on business from Salon.com: Does it take a shrewd entrepreneur to maintain a record label? No. I was talking to a business guy once, an accountant, and he said, “They should invite you to come speak at Harvard Business School.” And I said...
Read moreI was putting off posting in hopes of having a time for the workshop Greg Means (Tugboat Press), Aron Steinke and I would be giving but it is getting close to the show so. Here is the info. Sparkplug Comic Books and Teenage Dinosaur will tabling at the Portland Zine Symposium this weekend. Well...
Read moreMollie Goldstrom and I went to visit one of our favorite artists, Joseph Hart, in his greenpoint studio. Joseph will be doing the back cover for Windy Corner #3…anyway, here are photos I took of some of the work he showed us that he was working on. Oh and here is his...
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