Our friends at Bitch Magazine have written a great review of our latest book Nurse Nurse, as well as Julia Gfrörer’s latest, Too Dark To See. Please give it a read!
Read moreCAKE needs your help!
Chicago Alternative Comics Expo is running an IndieGoGo campaign to cover some unexpected expenses. It’s the first year of this expo and we at Sparkplug are really looking forward to it. Please consider donating; they have some...
Read moreMickey Z to The Universe
Hello world. I’m glad to report that we have not one, but two new releases from Mickey Z. Not just the latest issue of R.A.V. – Number six – but also a short horror tale called Sagari. All of it hand produced with the miraculous...
Read moreNew Magazines – Juxtapoz 137, Hi-Fructose 23 + Crap Hound Six
Juxtapox #137 – Brian Chippendale, Wayne White and Killian Eng? Seriously? Best Juxtapoz this year! Hi-Fructose 23 – Junko Mizuno cover and feature! Craphound 6: Death, telephones and scissors! Share and enjoy!
Read moreNew Books in the Store!
We’ve got a couple new books in the store for you today: Zebediah Part 1 by IPRC Comics Certificate Program student Asher Craw, Two Eyes of the Beautiful by Ryan Cecil Smith, Nightlife 12:02 by Tom Lechner and a beautiful print of a Stellar...
Read moreRat Hex is New and Other News
Brand new in the shop is the second book release from Space Face Books, an anthology digest by the name of Rat Hex featuring brand new art and comics by Robert Beatty, Clint Colburn, Michael DeForge, Jesse McManus and Matt Lock. Sorry it’s...
Read moreTardi Tuesday – Au bonheur des ogres
From a 2008 printing of Daniel Pennac’s 1985 novel Au bonheur des ogres (released in English as The Scapegoat). The first installment in La Saga Malaussène. Click to massivfy
Read moreNew Books in the Shop: Nurse Nurse and Brad Trip
We’ve got our two latest publishing efforts in the store now! Nurse Nurse, a sci-fi epic by Katie Skelly and Brad Trip, an anthology of Portland Artists we put together with three other small press publishers for Free Comic Book...
Read moreNew in the Shop – Domino Books. Sugar Booger. Nurse Nurse.
Free Comic Book Day? Alternative Free Comic Book Day lasts all month! Brad Trip is always intense! In the meanwhile we have several exciting new titles to offer you. First up are the first three offerings from Austin English’s Domino Books...
Read moreMaking Movies: Steven Cerio – Schweinfurth Art Center at Auburn Public Theater – Auburn, NY – 05/03/12
Have A Brad Trip on Alternative Free Comic Book Day
Celebrate an alternative Free Comic Book Day this Saturday. No Diamond, no superheroes, no Warners, no Disney… Enjoy a weekend where the member of the Avengers who looks good in a leather catsuit is working with John Steed; and all you need...
Read moreSteven Cerio’s Magnificent Pigtail Shadow Debuts
Steven Cerio‘s film “The Magnificent Pigtail Shadow” – narrated by Kristin Hersh – will have its screen debut at the MAKING MOVIES 2012 FILM AND VIDEO SERIES curated by Terry Cuddy and organized by the Schweinfurth...
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