Hey all! Sparkplug will be tabling at LA Zine Fest this Sunday, February 16th, at Helms Bakery in Los Angeles. For more info on the fest, click here. We’ll have our normal, awesome collection of books and zines PLUS...
Read moreSparkplug Highlight: Intergalactic Telepathic Pen Pal by Yumi Sakugawa
A friend of a friend said that she found another of Sakugawa‘s comics to be very sad. I agree, but I think they are my favorite kind of melancholy: the kind that reminds you that, however impermanent this world is, there is a place...
Read moreSimon Hanselmann’s Life Zone Now In The Shop
Simon Hanselmann’s full color, 64 page book Life Zone is now in our shop. Also back in stock from Space Face Books is Michael DeForge’s The Boy in Question and the Rat Hex anthology.
Read moreHenriette Valium Great Success 1983-2013
As noted recently, newly added to our shop is the greatest career retrospective yet released of Quebec’s ‘Pope of Comics’ Henriette Valium. This book comes from a new publisher from the little heard from country of Macedonia...
Read moreBook Announcements and Convention Schedule!
HELLO ALL! Hope you are enjoying your winter and New Year so far! Sparkplug has a couple announcements for you. First, due to some paper mix ups, Reich #11 is taking a little longer than expected to print. It is still available to...
Read moreDave Allen In Search of the Great English Eccentric
Dave Allen and Ivor Cutler together? Yes, I need to watch this. You are saying that now. You are welcome. A BBC production from 1974. Dave Allen also hosted “Eccentrics at Play” the same year for the BBC. Dave Allen meets a man named...
Read moreJonny Negron’s Adapt 2 and more new in the shop
Floating World has delivered the second of their massive oversized really damn big tabloid editions of Jonny Negron’s sci-fi series Adapt, and we have them here as well as having the first issue back in stock. About a bajilion more, well...
Read moreGo listen: Inkstuds episode 500
The mighty Inkstuds podcast and radio show has logged 500 episodes in just over eight years. The guests for this landmark episode are Frank Santoro and Brandon Graham. Go give a listen. Special guests Frank Santoro and Brandon Graham help me...
Read moreHot off the Press – Insect Bath
Just arrived in our shop is Insect Bath, the new anthology of cosmic horror edited by Jason T. Miles. Includes comics by: Max Clotfelter (Henry & Glenn Forever), Alex Delaney (Rapt in Fear), Eamon Espey (Wormdye and Songs of the Abyss), Noel...
Read moreMany New And Recent Books Now In The Shop
We have added a whole slew of books to the shop in preparation for our grand opening in just a couple of weeks at the new Cupertino store. The store is already open for business from Tuesday through Saturday, noon to 6pm. Big opening party coming...
Read moreSparkplug Highlights: Gin Palace, Issue One
In this funny, sweet, and bizarre British anthology, a variety of stories and styles are presented for your reading pleasure! Gin Palace features seven different comics, all of which are pure entertainment. In Rob Jackson’s two-part...
Read moreNew in the Shop – Jesse Moynihan, Frontier and More
Many books new and old have been added to the shop this past week. We’d like to bring your attention to these. Youth in Decline’s first two issues of Frontier are now in stock: Frontier #1 by Uno Moralez and Frontier #2 by Hellen Jo...
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