Yes, we are a day late. Friday, October 11 (or possibly Sunday, the thirteenth, or maybe some other day… we acknowledge the eleventh) was John Peel Day. Digging around this week, nearly nine years after John Peel passed, a number of things...
Read moreSupport This: DICE: Durham Indie Comics Expo
DICE is the Durham Indie Comics Expo, a comics art festival in Durham, North Carolina. The show will feature lectures, panels, signings, minicomics and more! DICE is running an IndieGoGo campaign to raise at least $3,000 to fund this otherwise...
Read moreSparkplug Highlights: Watching Days Become Years #1, by Jeff LeVine
Be warned: the first issue of Watching Days Become Years will sneak up on you, make you feel like you’re understood and in good company, and then, at the last possible minute, punch you right in the gut. Knowing that, do you still want...
Read moreSupport This: Persimmon Cup Collection by Nick Bertozzi
“120-page full-color graphic novel of the first book of my webcomic Persimmon Cup. Sci-fi in scope, Bertozzi-ish in execution.” The great Nick Bertozzi has turned to self-publishing and Kickstarter for the print edition of his popular...
Read moreThe Wow Cool Shop Grows Deep And Wide
Sorry that headline kinda sucks. Wow Cool has recently acquired the stock of legendary retailer Independent Comics and we are getting all those many fine and seldom seen alt comics titles into the shop as fast as we can. We also have picked up...
Read moreSparkplug Highlights: Neptune, by Aron Nels Steinke
Aron Nels Steinke possesses a rare talent: he has the ability to create stories that will appeal to children and adults in equal measure. This talent is exercised magnificently in his first graphic novel, Neptune. Co-published by Sparkplug Books...
Read moreNew In The Shop Tom Hart’s RL Chapter Three
RL #3 – The third chapter of Tom Hart’s chronicle of his daughter Rosalie Lightning’s far too brief life – a work in progress – is now available in this very limited risograph printed and hand assembled comic made by...
Read moreSparkplug Highlights: I’m Not Afraid to Love (Gridlords Anthology)
Did you know that Gridlords is happening this Saturday, the 28th, at The Waypost? And did you know that several talented comics folks in attendance will be debuting work from the new Gridlords anthology, Other Worlds?! We’re...
Read moreSparkplug Highlights: Reich #10, by Elijah Brubaker
I don’t know about you, but I love graphic biographies, illustrated journalism, and historical comics. From the highly detailed, moving work of Joe Sacco to Kate Beaton’s hilarious history gags to the recent and highly acclaimed...
Read moreThe Golem of Gabirol in Maximum Rocknroll!
Olga Volozova’s The Golem of Gabirol got a great review in the September issue of Maximum Rocknroll (#364) from Mariam Bastani! Check it out: “This is a comic rendition of 11th century Moorish Spain-based poet, scholar, kabbalist Ibn...
Read moreSparkplug Highlights: Goodbye Turtle and An Unfilled Circle, by Yumi Sakugawa
I don’t think there’s a word in the English language for the feeling of simultaneously being sad and being happy that you’re sad, because your sadness means that there is beauty in the world, even in small...
Read moreSF Zine Fest pics on Facebook now!
We had a great time tabling at San Francisco Zine Fest over the weekend of Aug 31 to Sept 1. Thanks everyone who stopped to say hi, buy stuff, or just to take a look. Go to our Facebook page to see more fun photos of the event.
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