Psycho Nurse! Photo Outtake 1

Psycho Nurse! Photo Outtake 1

First in a series of outtakes from the photo sessions for the Psycho Nurse! Calendar. Nurse Anna in extra-deceased zombie mode ringing in the yuletide cheer. More of these will be appearing in the coming weeks, as well as appearing on the Psycho Donuts Facebook page.

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New in the Store!

Fresh in the Store today: Carrie McNinch’s You Don’t Get There From Here #16, Vanessa Davis’ Kitchen Conniption and my very own The Warehouse on Poplar. Also check out the revamped pages for Mats?!’s Asiaddict, Ted May’s It Lives #1 and Trevor Alixopulos’ Mine...

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Sparkplug Comic Books will be at APE this weekend. Saturday and Sunday October 16th & 17th. There will be a group of us:  Julia Wertz, David King, Virginia Paine, Tim Goodyear, Rina Ayuyang, Tim Root, Sophie Yanow, Renee French and Chris Cilla will be in attendance at the table or...

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Sparkplug on Poopsheet!

A gang of Sparkplug books just got reviewed at Poopsheet, a great site! Chris Cilla’s The Heavy Hand: http://poopsheetfoundation.com/forums/reviews/115-the-heavy-hand-by-chris-cilla-review-by-justin-giampaoli Elijah Brubaker’s Reich #7...

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Silicon Valley Ghost Campus: Moffett Towers

Silicon Valley Ghost Campus: Moffett Towers

For the latest in Wow Cool’s occasional series of holiday weekend posts on obscure travel destinations, I present the very Ballardian Moffett Towers. Located adjacent to Moffett Field in Sunnyvale, California, Moffet Towers has become the poster child of the Silicon Valley’s...

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Gay Genius is on Kick Starter

Annie Murphy’s visionary anthology Gay Genius is up on Kickstarter. Sparkplug will be co-publishing the book so please take a look and think about helping to cover the other half. The book looks amazing: http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/2030444721/gay-genius-comics-anthology

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David King Media Blitz

The illustrious Comics Reporter has launched a great review of David Kings newest masterpiece: Lemon Styles. Check it out here: http://www.comicsreporter.com/index.php/index/cr_review_lemon_styles/ and there is a sexy Facebook page for David’s Comics as well...

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Stickers – Stuck Up Piece Of Crap

Seems I’m a few days late on this, but, just got word from Ian AKA Infinity, who contributed to one of the more stunning pages of the Psycho Nurse! Calendar, that he has a couple stickers reproduced in this book, and that there will be a reception celebrating its release: STICKERS: From...

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I Wrote A Thing

I set out to write a simple, optimistic, pushy, promo hype-even, cover letter for this calendar we just did (seen at left). Instead I ended up pouring my heart out (lies and half-truths mostly) about the history of this here Wow Cool (and that there, as the case may be). You might find it useful...

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Disgusting Room Preview

Hey Sparkplug faithfull! I posted some preview images of the book I just finished, The Disgusting Room, over on my blog. Check it out here: http://windycornermag-austin.blogspot.com/2010/10/disgusting-room-preview.html Enjoy. Austin

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Disgusting Room Preview

Hey Sparkplug faithfull! I posted some preview images of the book I just finished, The Disgusting Room, over on my blog. Check it out here:http://windycornermag-austin.blogspot.com/2010/10/disgusting-room-preview.html Enjoy. Austin

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Ruskoff on small publishers!

Tom Neely sent me this link. The article made me love Douglas Rushkoff and I don’t even know anything about the guy: http://www.arthurmag.com/2010/09/29/rushkoff-why-i-left-my-publisher-in-order-to-publish-a-book/ Anyone read the book? Is it good?

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