It’s just become a blanket in the baby section at Target. Or, for the truly hardcore, TGI Friday’s has the Pink Punk Cosmo on it’s cocktail menu. Slightly more mystifying is this t-shirt that is part of Shaun White’s...
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Holiday Cartoon Mindwarp Part 1: The Clangers
A little over a year ago, Oliver Postgate passed on at age 83. He left an astounding legacy, in just a few short series, that have had a lasting impact on generations of children. Despite only ever making thirteen episodes of Bagpuss, it remains...
Read moreDavid King website is ALL NEW
David has revamped the Reliable comics website, it looks BE-OOOTIFUL:www.reliablecomics.com “I made a lot of changes to Reliable Comics to make it more of a blog/e-comics deal. For the next month or so there’ll be daily postings of...
Read moreNurse Nurse at Arthur!
Sparkplug favorite Katie Skelly got a big write up for the new issue of Nurse Nurse and the series at Arthur:www.arthurmag.comand here is here website, a must:calico-comics.livejournal.com
Read moreThe Power of Nightmares
I know it’s no A Christmas Story, and I’m a little late noticing that this documentary by Adam Curtis is available on Archive.org. But this has been my Christmas Eve viewing. I’ve been assaulted this year with endless idiocy...
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Multiplying Toys, originally uploaded by Marc Arsenault – Wow Cool. May your toys multiply and prosper.
Read moreNo Pigeonholes Wow Cool Special
Don Campau and John Hayden at KKUP 91.5 FM I was invited to be a special guest on Don Campau‘s excellent No Pigeonholes show at KKUP 91.5 FM’s new studios in San Jose on Sunday, December 13th, 2009. We breezed through 20 years of the...
Read moreHappy Winter Solstice from the Kissing Pigs
Design FAIL: Beatles Collection at Restoration Hardware
Unadvertised special feature: two-inch thick Styrofoam block (pictured below) As you may have heard, the complete catalog of the Beatles recordings have recently become available in a brilliantly remastered digital version. You can acquire these...
Read moreWinter Solstice Sun Worship Event – BUOY Gallery – Kittery, ME – 12/20/09
A = A
The only trouble with Steve Ditko is how much amazing stuff he’s done in the past thirty years. Where to start? I just added four new books to the Sparkplug web store. All by Steve Ditko: Mr. A 160 Page Package Ditko Package Avenging World...
Read moreThe Most Rare Artifact of the 21st Century
Is a porno comic. Yes, Brandon Graham’s 56 page smut comic from 2003 Perverts of the Unknown is that most rarest and sought after of things. Impossible to find in a reasonable condition for less than One Thousand US Dollars! As the sole...
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