It’s true, I just can’t stop thinking about bowling! Found in the archives, circa Feb. 1995, a portrait of yours truly by Kieron Dwyer! Complete with my beloved old DeKalb hat rendered a little differently. I ditched the hat after I...
Read moreSee-Saw – Sara Edward-Corbett: This is the most genius comic I’ve ever read to use “fartknocker” in almost every other strip. See-Saw plays out the schoolyard antics of four little kids- Chuckie, the bully; Georgie, the...
Read moreForbidden Planet NYC now carries all the Sparkplug distro items—those hard to find minis that you see at our table during SPX and MOCCA…now you can waltz into your local comic shop and buy ’em at your leisure. Forbidden Planet...
Read moreThe Hot Breath of War by Trevor Alixopulos just got a write up at Newsarama here. Take a look.
Read moreIn my declining years I have chosen to perpetually exist in a virtual Portmeirion, where no. 6 still longs for escape (but to what?), Stephen Fry is no. 2 and Siouxsie and The Banshees play Iggy Pop’s “The Passenger” on a patio...
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Underground comic book legend S. Clay Wilson (Zap, Checkered Demon) suffered a severe brain injury back in November on his way home from the APE ahow. He’s making progress towards a recovery, but he needs much expensive therapy. Tomorrow, Sunday...
Read moreSparkplug will be moving to 6340 SE Foster Road in Portland. It is an office space that also has a storefront, where Tim Goodyear and I will be opening a t-shirt, book (no comics) and dvd store called “The Bad Apple” soon. The space...
Read moreAt the Loft in Sacramento, California. Some visitors here may have seen GHC at Albany, New York’s Loft… a venue much missed. More on this later…
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Christmas Day in the UK must be something special. There, like nowhere else, it seems to revolve around the day’s television programming. This year is truly something special, for along with the Queens address, Eastenders, Strictly Come...
Read moreShannon just sent me this awesomely scary article from Salon. I haven’t read it all yet. It is interesting that panic is sort of affecting a lot of people. More later.http://www.salon.com/books/feature/2008/12/23/publishing/index.html
Read moreElijah Brubaker’s Reich made it onto the Forbidden Planet (the English one) blog, on Dan Goldman’s best of the year! Wonderful news as Elijah is right now wrapping up work on #6.
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