Hey, folks, come dig this. The beloved Mothers News – the Paper of Record from Providence, Rhode Island – has made its archives available for free online at Archive.org. Every issue of the RI broadsheet is avaialble for download in...
Read moreSparkplug Highlights: Wuvable Oaf, by Ed Luce
We are super excited to announce that we have copies of Wuvable Oaf #0-4 back in the store! If you haven’t picked up this series yet, you no longer have any excuses — you simply must read it. Really, it has something for everyone...
Read moreSparkplug Highlights: Yeah, It Is! by Leslie Anne Mackenzie Stein
Yeah, It Is! is a beautiful little book about Mack, a teenage girl. It takes a quiet look at growing up and some of the trials and experiences that come along with it: missing friends who’ve moved away, feeling irritated with the ones...
Read moreNew in the Store: Vortex #3 and Eye of the Majestic Creature #1 and 2!
We have some awesome new additions to the store today! First up, we have issue #3 of William Cardini’s incredibly strange and visually arresting Vortex. In this issue, the Miizzzard is lost in the Vortex dreamworld, his fate unknown. What...
Read moreSparkplug at Autoptic This Sunday, August 18th!
Are you going to be in Minneapolis this Sunday? Come see us at Autoptic! It is a free, one-day festival celebrating independent culture that features comics, zines, art, and music. Special guests include Jaime Hernandez, Marc Bell, Jim Rugg...
Read moreWhat Makes A Man Start Fires?
Average and boring humans can talk about double nickels, ballot results and mersh projects until the spiel comes home… but I want to know this..
Read moreThe Outliers #1 by Erik T. Johnson Out Now
A school bus is forced off a cliff by a vehicle in pursuit of a legendary woodland giant. Secrets are revealed when it’s young passenger, a boy known for his inability to speak, commands the giant to in an unknown language. Exposed as link...
Read moreSparkplug Highlights: Orchid, edited by Ben Catmull and Dylan Williams
Do you love tales of the macabre and Gothic fiction? Do you get a thrill from being subtly horrified, eerily unsettled? Do you like amazing black-and-white art, anthologies, and juxtapositions of the work of talented modern artists and classic...
Read moreHulk Hands? Simon Gane gives us Picasso Hands!
But wait! There’s more! Enjoy this gallery of recent sketches by Simon Gane. Bonus sketch: Juliet from Simon’s graphic novel Paris with Andi Watson – featuring Simon’s interpretation of Picasso’s 1946 painting La...
Read moreAl Columbia is on Instagram
UPDATE – January, 2023 Al Columbia is now active on Instagram at: https://www.instagram.com/psycopoprecords/ Orange Sunshine House and other sites are no longer available but you may be able to find their traces on Archive.org. Al Columbia...
Read moreThe Completely Useless and Incompetent Culture of MI5
As we do nearly every time Adam Curtis opens his mouth, as it were, we are posting a little something about his latest post over on his BBC blog. This one’s a real hoot and a serious time commitment. It deals with the innate idiocy of...
Read moreSparkplug Highlights: Viewotron #1, by Sam Sharpe and David Goodrich
“…the Viewotron [is] a metaphor for the creative process. We don’t know where ideas come from. They just appear like blueprints out of the ether of our brains. An artist’s job is to look at the blueprints and build the...
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