Just arrived from SHQ – The Secret headquarters – is this brand new collection of the long out-ouf-print mini comics. That special time between the end of high school and the beginning of college… depicted by Michael DeForge...
Read moreViktoriya Yermolyeva Tickles The Ivories (In Black)
As pointed out by my bandmate in Fognozzle and Girls of Slender Means (and former partner in Wow Cool), Mr. Pete Von Petrin, the brilliant piano renditions transcribed and performed by Vika Yermolyeva have had too much play in viral reblogs from...
Read moreSparkplug Highlights: Zebadiah, by Asher Z. Craw
It’s actually a little difficult to express in words how wonderful and affecting Asher’s Zebadiah is. It’s not just the art, though it is breathtaking. Asher’s artistic style recalls rough-but-intricate woodblock...
Read moreWarriors Come Out and Play
In the fear that you might miss this, I just want to point you to the latest post from the very popular BLDGBLOG that features a previously unpublished interview with the late Sol Yurick, the screenwriter of the enormously influential film The...
Read moreSparkplug Highlights: Reich #1 and #2, by Elijah Brubaker
We hope that you’ve had a chance to see our awesome presale for Reich #11, which is the penultimate issue in Elijah Brubaker’s comic biography of Wilhelm Reich. However, if you’re just now coming to the series, you should...
Read moreThe Radiophonic Workshop Reunion on BBC 6Music
The seemingly comprehensive coverage here a few weeks ago on the legacy of the BBC Radiophonic Workshop was woefully incomplete… because the story is still being told. Original BBC Radiophonic Workshop composers Dick Mills, Paddy Kingsland...
Read moreSea Sounds of the Golden Eternity by Steven Cerio
Steven Cerio has launched a Vimeo page with a few shorts including this homage to Jack Kerouac shot in California’s Big Sur region. Cease-Hounds uv thuh Gold-Tin Eat-Turn-It-Tea (Sea Sounds of the Golden Eternity) by Steven Cerio from...
Read moreNew In the Store: Vantage!
Everyone, listen up, and listen like crazy: we have a new Eroyn Franklin book in the store! Vantage is an incredible addition to both her creative oeuvre and your personal comics collection. This fold-out book documents The Long Walk, a...
Read moreReich #11 Preorders and a Year End Announcement
Sugar Booger Thanksgiving Special
Hello… What’s this? Thanksgiving was last week! That may well be, but Kevin Scalzo’s Sugar Booger #1 didn’t get here until now! But, wait, you say, I thought that came out like ten years ago. Nope this is the new 32 page...
Read moreSupport SAW The Sequential Artists Workshop in 2014
Tom Hart has put all the call. SAW, The Sequential Artists Workshop, needs your support in 2014. All is explained in the video above. Get over to indiegogo and help them out. The rewards are truly...
Read moreNew in the Store: Other Worlds!
Portland’s comics performance collective, Gridlords, has seen fit to grace us with a second anthology, and it’s bigger, slicker, and weirder than we could have hoped for! Other Worlds explores the myriad other dimensions, other...
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