Sparkplug at LA Zine Fest!
Hey LA! Sparkplug will have a table at LA Zine Fest this Sunday, March 6! It’s at the Majestic Downtown at 650 S. Spring St from 11am-6pm and is free to attend! We’ll be at booth 165. We hope to see you there!
Read moreDrive Like Jehu 2-27-2016 The Ritz San Jose, CA
Drive Like Jehu played in San Jose. I took some distorto-loud video of most of the encore. Enjoy.
Read moreShirts on sale!
Hey friends! Lots of Sparkplug t-shirts just went on sale in the shop. Featuring illustrations by Dylan Williams, Renee French, and more! Check ’em out here!
Read moreSparkplug Highlight: Ce/Ze
Ce/Ze, Suzette Smith’s dreamy take on science fiction/fantasy, follows two 7th graders who share a psychic link. Amelia Smith and Honey Czarny discover that they share fragmented memories of their past lives in another universe as powerful beings...
Read moreThe Future of Sparkplug
Hello friends, It is with mixed feelings that I must announce that I will be shutting down Sparkplug this year. I appreciate the opportunities that running Sparkplug has given me and the wonderful people it has introduced me to. I know...
Read moreSparkplug Highlight: Bird Girl and Fox Girl
This minicomic follows the threads of Bird Girl and Fox Girl’s lives after the dissolution of their friendship. Bird Girl moves from the desert to the city, where she works as a secretary, eventually saving up enough money for surgery to look...
Read moreAlvin is gone
I lost a one-time bandmate the other day and comics lost one of its greatest champions. I’m still confused and shocked by the news. I rarely had the opportunity to just talk casually to Alvin Buenaventura away from something else going on...
Read moreTwo or Three Things I Know About Her
Five Frames from Jean Luc Godard’s 1967 film presented on tumblr in sequence. http://gritboy.tumblr.com/post/139220584708/two-or-three-things-i-know-about-her-jean-luc
Read moreReich review!
Daniel Elkin and Jason Sacks wrote an excellent review of Reich for Comics Bulletin. Read it here!
Read moreThe Pop Group – We Are All Prostitutes
Lost for many years… the official video for The Pop Group’s We Are All Prostitutes has been discovered and re-released
Read moreSparkplug Highlight: The Anthropologists
Wren and Miriam, two anthropology majors studying abroad in Australia, are selected for a trip to the Kimberley Desert to study aboriginal culture. While Miriam is overly enthusiastic and gung ho about the trip and meeting aboriginal people, Wren...
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