Sun Worship 8 – BUOY Gallery – Kittery, ME – 03/19/11
Brian Gibson of Lighting Bolt gets Up Close and Personal
This video is almost a year old but is new to me (and hopefully to you too). It’s been sitting in my browser tabs for a month, so it is long past time time to finally watch and share. Brian Gibson is the sonic bass monster in Lightning Bolt (Who are on tour in April!)
Read morePapercutter #15 & Mel Stringer
We got the new Papercutter in! Issue #15 is for sale in the store now and includes three excellent stories by Jonas Madden-Connor, Melinda Boyce, MK Reed and Drew Weing. And we also added Goodness, by Australian artist Mel Stringer. If you haven’t seen her stuff before, you should check it...
Read moreNorthlanders 38 Out Today
Get down to your local comic book shop today to get the latest issue of Brian Wood’s Northlanders. It is part 2 of The Siege of Paris, illustrated by Simon Gane. Cover art by Massimo Carnevale. “The Siege Of Paris” continues as foot soldier Mads documents the brutality of the...
Read moreNew in the Store Today! Tessa Brunton and Jason Overby
I know it’s now the weekend for y’all, but we here at Sparkplug are still adding stuff to the store! Today we have minis by two very different autobio artists: Tessa Brunton’s dense, funny In the Tall Grass #3 and #4 and Jason Overby’s sparse, deconstructed Obligatory...
Read moreJason Martin Band in Brooklyn – TBA – 03/09/11
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Creative License: The Law and Culture of Digital Sampling
Just announced on Tuesday by The Future of Music Coalition is the release through Duke University Press of the long-in-the-works book “Creative License: The Law and Culture of Digital Sampling“. The book seems to be a bit the textbook companion to the 2009 film Copyright Criminals...
Read moreJosé Alaniz talk in Portland at the IPRC.
Hello, Portland Comics People! This upcoming Saturday, Dr. Jose Alaniz is coming to the IPRC to give a presentation about comics in Russia as part of the IPRC’s class in World Comics. Dr. Alaniz is a professor of Slavic languages and literature at the University of Washington in...
Read moreGuerrilla Mischief 101 w/ Mike Bonanno of the Yes Men
When it comes to mischief-making with a porpoise, the Yes Men have no equal! Mike Bonanno is bringing never-before-seen footage and behind-the-scenes insights from the latest Yes Men hijinks to launch the Spring 2011 season at Troy, New York’s Sanctuary for Independent Media… and...
Read moreComics Comics Takes Over TCJ.com & Arthur Magazine Closes
Fantagraphics Books’ long running magazine of comics news, criticism and whatnot, The Comics Journal, officially handed over the curation of it’s interwebs iteration TCJ.com to the motley band at Comics Comics. Re-launched on Sunday, March 6th, 2011, with a brand new look and an...
Read moreDigital Dead End: Fighting for Social Justice in the Information Age
Out now from the fab and kinky people at MIT press is this tome from our old and dear friend Virginia Eubanks. Digital Dead End is described as: “The idea that technology will pave the road to prosperity has been promoted through boom and bust. Today we are told that broadband access...
Read moreObjects of Memory by Seth Cluett at Swarm in Oakland
Oakland, California-based Swarm Gallery welcomes Ohio-based sound artist and former Brown Cuts Neighbors bassist, Seth Cluett, for his installation in their project space, on view from March 5 – April 10, 2011. This installation is part three of the year-long sound program “Building...
Read moreI Cover the Waterfront South Bay Punks
As of this Wednesday, I have officially rejoined the ranks of Maximum RockNRoll‘s crew of shitworkers. Yes, that is the official job title. I was a zine reviewer, shitworker and occasional illustrator for MRR in the middle 1990’s. I earned some notoriety for the occasional...
Read moreAUSTIN STAPLE THIS WEEKEND
Virginia Paine, Chris Cilla, Tim Goodyear and I are all going to Austin, Texas this weekend (March 5th and 6th, 2011) for our own chainsaw massacre. It will be amazing. Also exhibiting at the show will be Top Shelf Productions, Melinda Tracy Boyce, Aaron Whitaker, James O’Barr and...
Read moreNew in the store today: Papercutter #10-14!
I’ve just added Papercutter #10-14 to the shop. If you’re unfamiliar, Papercutter is an anthology put out by Portland’s own Tugboat Press that showcases underrated but awesome artists. Each issue contains three stories and is only four bucks! Papercutter #14 – Dave Roche...
Read moreGo Check Out: Instrument A Day 2011
Returning for a fourth installment is the Instrument A Day all during February on MoonMilk.com. This years installment features some of the most and least (but to good effect) ambitious projects yet. Moonmilk comes to us from sound artist (and Brooklyn neighbor) Ranjit Bhatnagar. The project is...
Read moreLacey Bryant’s Dreamscape Opens Friday in San Jose
You are invited to view DREAMSCAPE: New Paintings by Lacey Bryant Opening reception: February 25th 7-10pm Art, food & music! The Usuals 1020 The Alameda, San Jose, CA 95126 USA Lacey was, of course, one of the star artists of the Psycho Nurse! 2011 Calendar from Wow Cool.
Read moreSnock ‘N Roll: Adventures With Michael Hurley
Snock ‘N Roll: Adventures With Michael Hurley (Complete Documentary Short) from Marc Israel on Vimeo. Phenomenal World Cinema presents you with a 25 minute documentary about legendary folksinger Michael Hurley, based on chance encounters with him this past summer. Hurley’s music has...
Read moreJason Martin Under Water
Under Water (2/22/11) by Jason Martin recorded on the laptop mic at 630 on 2/22/11, a solo version of a song on my upcoming LP release, not yet titled… A great many things lie hidden beneath the Great Sacandaga Lake.
Read moreDunja Jankovic Art Party at Floating World in two Thursdays!
Dunja Jankovic at Floating WOrld Thursday March 3rd 6-10pm. To celebrate the release of Habitat. More details to come.
Read moreSwipe File – Paul Rand gets Jacked
There used to be a great feature in the magazine The Comics Journal called the swipe file, where a classic piece of comic art was held up next to a more recent piece that usually resembled it a bit too much to be mere coincidence. The best know modern version is, of course, the You
Read moreGrickle: The World of Graham Annable
I’m pretty new to the works of cartoonist/animator Graham Annable; and, I came to it from a very strange direction. I’d had some peripheral knowledge of his comics work from Alternative Press in his Grickle comics and the Hickee anthology, but had never had occasion to connect...
Read moreDesperate Acts – Performance Into Art – Macy Art Gallery – Teachers College Columbia University – New York, NY – 02/18/11
