I’ve just added Papercutter #16 to the store! It has stories by Joey Alison Sayers, Liz Prince and Alexis Frederick-Frost, so it is as fantastic as you might imagine. And we’ve added a mini-comic by Portland artist Sean Christensen called Dream Grant. Set in his Church of Awesome...
Read morenickname: Rebel Vs. Pete Von Petrin – Luna’s Cafe & Juice Bar – Sacramento, CA – 06/17/11
nickname: Rebel Vs. Pete Von Petrin tonight in Sacramento
nickname: Rebel – Marc, Mike and Nick – take on Mr. Pete Von Petrin in a battle to the death at a special Norcal Noisefest event at Luna’s Cafe in Sacramento. All the show details are here. Pre-game huddle will be held at 6pm at Sacto’s Hoppy Brewing Company, where Ed...
Read moreCOMICS ON THE RISE
Box Brown is starting a publishing house specifically to publish short, cheap, stapled ALTERNATIVE comics a la Drawn and Quarterly in the 90’s. It’s called Retrofit and they’ll be publishing a new monthly comic for 17 straight months! To kick off funding they are...
Read moreTom Neely releases New Graphic Novel
“An assaultive, erotic riot of sex and combat and horror and sheer image-making power. There’s great beauty in The Wolf’s blackness.” – Sean T. Collins, critic (The Comics Journal, Robot 6) The Wolf is a new graphic novel by Los Angeles-based painter-cartoonist Tom Neely. The book tells a simple...
Read morePossessed by the Rise of Magik: Chris Cilla’s Heavy Hand reviewed on The Comics Journal
Over at the Comics Journal they have a thorough and thoughtful review of Chris Cilla’s the Heavy Hand, in which Rob Clough compares Chris to a turntablist: “Cilla finds every kind of storytelling convention totally interchangeable and mixes them with the elegance of a DJ or a...
Read moreIf you are able…
It’s getting down to the last couple days of our friend’s Kickstarter campaign! She is raising funds for another season of her excellent radio show Destination DIY. The rewards are awesome, of course, and if you donate $20 right now, you can get a grab bag of Sparkplug Comics in...
Read moreHabitat #2 on Bookgasm
Dunja Jankovic’s Habitat #2 got reviewed yesterday on Bookgasm. Check it out!
Read moreRadio Free Blissville Redux
Just posted a couple days ago is this version of the short film Radio Free Blissville. The soundtrack features a brief, but significant contribution by nickname: Rebel. I have not seen this version before and am guessing it is, if not the definitive version, then, possibly, the final one...
Read moreDC Comics ReBoot by Simon Gane
Like most sane people, I would prefer to see the upcoming reboot, renumbering, digital same-timeness from the DC Comics division of Warner’s Military-Industrial Entertainment Complex designed by the more capable level heads available from the ranks of their core of Vertigo and Wildstorm...
Read moreCALMS Cassette Release Show – El Rio – San Francisco, CA – 06/01/11
Books, Books, Books!
So, here we are, at long last, with the sequel to the “Lost Awesome Book Cover Designs” post. Unlike that previous posting, I can thoroughly endorse these ten covers as being very awesome. I’ve been collecting these in the last several months. You will quickly noticed that...
Read moreToo Dark To See, Blammo 7 and More!
A bunch of new, awesome things in the store today. First is Julia Gfrörer’s newest, Too Dark To See. It’s seriously good and pretty disturbing; her artwork is spectacular as always. Next up is the latest installment of Katie Skelly’s retro space adventure, Nurse Nurse #7. What...
Read moreDevin Gary & Ross: “4 Corners”
Mr. Ross Goldstein, a key component of Jason Martin‘s post-Brown Cuts Neighbors band Evolution Revolution has been active lately as a member of Devin, Gary & Ross. Devin being Devin Flynn and Gary being Gary Panter. Their new EP was just profiled over on Altered Zones. Check that, and...
Read moreNew Offset Needle Radius Release on YDLMIER
Josh Baker’s Offset Needle Radius has just released a cassette on the YDLMIER label. “Sounds on this release improvised using prepared bicycle wheels, microcassette and effects. A surprising variety of sounds and textures here to set you off balance and on the road without...
Read moreBuy Simon Gane Original Art
For the first time ever, Simon Gane is selling original art online. And it is at very nice prices. It’s mostly pages from his graphic Novel with Andi Watson – Paris – and a couple of T-Shirts.
Read morePreorder the Doris Encyclopedia
Cindy Crabb has just sent us a communique to announce that she is funding part of the printing on the latest collection of her popular Doris zine with a Kickstarter project. Her first collection Doris: An Anthology 1991-2001 is still available. The Encyclopedia of Doris is due the end of July...
Read moreThis Saturday in Olympia Washington
This Saturday, in the sleepy town of Olympia, WA there will be an amazing collection of artists that rarely all end up at such a good show. Check out their exhibitor list: http://olympiacomicsfestival.org/?page_id=386 We’ll be at the Expo part of the Olympia Comics Fest and all around...
Read moreEdie Fake interviewed!
A great interview with the inimitable Edie Fake: http://therumpus.net/2011/05/the-rumpus-interview-with-edie-fake/ Edie did the cover and a story in the new Gay Genius. And, if you don’t already have it, you should check out Gaylord Phoenix by Secret Acres
Read moreTCAF and comic conventions.
The Toronto Comic Arts Festival Last month I wrote a short piece about my thoughts on the MoCCA festival, the Stumptown Comics Festival and other shows. In it I mentioned how much I’ve liked the Toronto Comic Art Festival, TCAF. And last week was this year’s TCAF. I went...
Read moreHabitat #2 reviewed by the one and only Rob Clough at TCJ
An incredible review of Dunja Jankovic’s Habitat #2 over at the Comics Journal. As usual Clough has insight rare among today’s comic reviewers. http://www.tcj.com/reviews/habitat-2/
Read moreYDLMIER V – Tape Release Show – Flandrew Floft – Boston, MA – 05/13/11
Offset Needle Radius Release Show Friday
Who YDLMIER V – Tape Release Show When Friday, May 13, 2011 8:00pm – All Ages Where Flandrew Floft (map) email for directions – Zerfallt [at] gmail [dot] com Boston, MA, USA Other Info Release show for new cassettes on the Ydlmier label. The new 47 minute “Spoke...
Read moreProfanity Hill Update is full of comics you’ll want to order.
Jason T. Miles brings you a giant update of new books at Profanity Hill distribution. You’ll like them, I know: PROFANITY HILL new titles SACRED AND PROFANE by Justin Green $5 MR. CELLER’S ATTIC by Noel Freibert $6 DEEP SEED by Max Clotfelter & Tim...
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