This Tuesday (August 3rd) at Floating World Comics we’ll be celebrating the IPRC comics program. Floating World and the IPRC will be showing Steel, Artists & Models and Hooked on Comix 2 (a short film). All comix related, really great...
Read moreBlaise Larmee has started Gaze Books
One of my favorite cartoonists at the moment has started a publishing company which will also be carrying work by other people and putting stuff on their website, including pages like the one above from Austin English’s sketchbook. Really...
Read moreNurse Nurse review!
This great review of Nurse Nurse points out exactly why you should be reading Katie Skelly’s wonderful series: http://www.bros-czap.com/kevinczap/2010/07/colonists-be-safe/ and here is Katie’s site: http://www.calicocomics.com/...
Read moreDark Rain by Mat Johnson and Simon Gane
The long awaited new Vertigo graphic novel Dark Rain by Mat Johnson (Incognegro) illustrated by Simon Gane has been announced for an August 24 release in bookstores and from Amazon and August 18th in Comic Book stores. Cover by Nessim Higson Dark...
Read morePower Animals “Field of Dreams” Prospect Park
Our contribution… July 24, 2010. Prospect Park. Brooklyn, New York. JasonMartinWebsite.com
Read moreYou Don’t Get There From Here
I’ve spent most of my first month at Sparkplug scanning and creating pages for Carrie McNinch’s wonderful autobio comic/zine You Don’t Get There From Here. It hasn’t been easy; being prone to depression myself...
Read moreDeath by Shooting
Comic Con is Dead, Long Live Comic Con Photo by David King
Read moreCallahan died this week.
A bit of sad news: John Callahan dead at 59 http://www.oregonlive.com/portland/index.ssf/2010/07/portland_cartoonist_john_calla_1.html
Read moreWhirlwind Wonderland in Giant Robot!
Rina Ayuyang’s Whirlwind Wonderland got a great review in the new Giant Robot (#66). Here it is: Whirlwind Wonderland This compilation of work by Rina Ayuyang is a testament to the fact that honestand transparent storytelling about one’s...
Read moreWindy Corner #2 reviewed at Poopsheet!
At the Poopsheet site Matt Reints has done a really thorough review of Austin English’s Windy Corner #2. Loads of info! http://www.poopsheetfoundation.com/profiles/blogs/windy-corner-magazine-2-edited
Read moreBrian Allen McCall at TCJ
This is a great blog post about a comic artist that has done some great and rarely seen work, Brian Allen McCall. A giant thank you to Marc Sobel for doing this piece...
Read moreBrown Cuts Neighbors – Sleigh Bells in Schenectady
Posted in 3 parts to the YouTube by a fan, is this holiday classic. A shorter edit of it was created for, and I believe can still be viewed, in the collection of Buffalo, New York’s Squeaky Wheel. This episode is a bit of a slow starter...
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