Sparkplug Comic Books

Top Lists of the Decade pick Sparkplug books!

noreply@blogger.com (dylan sparkplug) — Wed, 03 Mar 2010 01:24:00 +0000

There has been a recent push for top 100 books of the last decade. Sparkplug books have made some amazing placings. It is pretty awesome and we're pretty proud to have been given the chance to publish such masterpieces.

Rob Clough's Top 100:
7. Asthma by John Hankiewicz
28. Bookhunter by Jason Shiga
42. Inkweed by Chris Wright
70. Orchid edited by Dylan Williams and Ben Catmull
95. The Hot Breath Of War by Trevor Alixopolous

and a few honorable mentions too. Take a look at his list in full here.

And then the Top 60 comics of the past decade on Only the Cinema, as chosen by Ed Howard chose Asthma by John Hanckiewicz as #6 which is pretty amazing considering the mainstreamy-ness of the list over all. Awesome news.

Dunja Jankovic Interviewed by Emily Nilsson

noreply@blogger.com (dylan sparkplug) — Thu, 25 Feb 2010 23:14:00 +0000

Department of Art seems to be about a lot of frustrations that artists face when working and trying to be productive – are you drawing from any specific moments you’ve had in your career?

I’m drawing from many specific moments in my life. It’s always a mixture of my personal experiences, anxious dreams, surrounding reality, reality anxiety, different layers of reality, multilayered anxiety etc etc.
Department of Art is mostly an exaggerated experience of the art schooling I encountered in my life. It’s about institutions trying to do something ridiculous with your art, like tame you, put you in a mold, push you to an already existing style or make you work too hard on your life drawings so you can learn what art is. Art is work, but when whipped, it tends to go dumb. It’s also about being a part of the Borg society where you have to choose to play a specific role and stick to it. It’s also about smoking bans.

Department of Art is chapter one of a bigger story that has been building itself for years already, it is very elusive and changeable and all the experience I had along the way are kind of sticking to the story making it grow. I would like every chapter to resemble the moment in which it was created, therefore I keep the story very open, otherwise it would feel like boring homework leftovers.

The media you use of the comic really vary – it looks like you use pen and ink on some parts, and collage in others for instance. What techniques did you use to complete it?

I always had this idea of doing completely different pages one after another, using different techniques to change atmosphere and make twists in narration. It’s hard and tricky at the same time, because it’s easy to slip into eclecticism and to use styles without the cause.

I’ve been using collages, drew with pen and ink, charcoal, paint with acrylics, watercolors etc etc. I might even use the photography in the future, I just like how every technique speaks the language of it’s own, or adds an accent if you will. Sometimes I over paint the page 10 times before I feel satisfied or completely destroy it in the end. It’s a more rewarding process for me, but also time exhausting. I haven’t perfected it yet, this is something new, I used to be very conservative in drawing comics.

There’s a soundtrack to go with your comic – is it widely available or was that just for the live reading? Who, if anyone, collaborated with you on the soundtrack?

The soundtrack was made by my friend and collaborator Cody Brant with whom I briefly played drums in his band called Flaspar. It’s his sound collage; he did a great job creating a 3rd dimension for my comic, which is something I always wanted to add to them. The idea actually comes from my Serbian friends Kosmoplovci who have been combining music with comics long before I did. You should check it out: http://www.kosmoplovci.net/studiostrip/indexx.html

Multimedia is something I’m really into. It’s about collaging and layering all these different voices, it almost feels like creating some sort of living entity, it’s very multi-dimensional, juicy.

Doing it is really good for looking at your own work from a different angle because you’re constantly jumping out of the comfort zones and questioning your way of seeing things. It’s a little masochistic game of making things more uncomfortable in order to open your third eye hahaha.

So I hand painted about 50 CDs to put at the back of the comics (Dylan provided the CDs and sleeves), and it was an enjoyable process, I fetishize the idea of making mass production out of original pieces. Like making zines with every cover silk-screened or stenciled, which I did for my Ego’s and the first version of Department of Art.

What comics have you done besides Department of Art?

I did a bunch of short comics (7-10 pgs long) and many of them are self-published in Ego’s. Some of them I did a while ago, but I still wanted to put them out. I still make a shorter comic from time to time, it’s a more poetic form and very flexible in its shortness. It’s easier to experiment with, visually and in narrative.

I’ve been working on abstract haiku comics collages for 2 yrs already. I should put them out soon but they are not ready yet. They are still shy. It’s a completely different work and working process from anything I did before.

Also, I just got into redoing old classic comics (I did a page out of a Fantastic Four comic for an exhibition, 100 pour 100, in Angoulême). Again, it’s all about egoistical needs to layer my work on top of someone else’s art, the more famous artist, the better. It creates interesting blend of feelings: power, acute self-satisfaction, shame, forbidden pleasure - everybody should try it!

What musical projects are you involved in? Have you done any other projects combining music and visual art?

I have done that in the past with my band Invisible Ghost Luigi where we would tour together with the Komikaze exhibitions and would try to create some kind of happening. Again, it’s about multimedia intersecting.

The latest musical project was playing drums with Flaspar last year. Drums affect the work of my comics and vice-versa, it’s all about the rhythm. I didn’t play drums 4 years before that so this was an intense experience. We went on a tour with only 2 booked concerts in L.A. but I managed to see Las Vegas from the perspective of autochthon people. That was precious.

It’s always a collaboration in some sense, for example when I’m listening to music while drawing, I know exactly what I want to listen to when I’m going to be drawing a dark labyrinth hallways with sticky walls, or a fight with gigantic sardine in a bathtub. So it’s kind of like picking up a soundtrack to my drawing process.

Could you talk about Croatia and how you developed as an artist growing up there? What places have you been to since leaving home?

I grew up on an island in a really small town and for 18 yrs everybody knew who I was and what I do. It is irritating to grow up in such an environment. Maybe that’s why I felt the constant need to move around to places where nobody knows who I am so I can rebuild my self, every time a little bit different.

I started drawing comics very early. My grandfather was collecting my work since I was 2 so I have all this comics with vampires, zombies and squirrels. It’s so precious and I always like to look at those because it explains a lot...
When I was 18 I left the island to go to Zagreb to study on the Fine Art Academy - that’s where my antagonism toward institutionalized art started. Fine Art Academy in Croatia is very classical and despises comics like a lower form of art (I was in painting department). After 2 yrs of drawing naked bodies with charcoal I was so lost I even stopped doing comics, I tried to paint, thinking that’s something I have to do, because THAT’S real art. They confused me. It was a common knowledge that Renaissance produced ultimately and universally superior art and teachers were untouchable gods. A student is never right and students’ art is always inferior.

After 3-4 years (the average time of studying is much longer then here, and I was flunked also) me and a couple of my friends were taken under the wing of a great professor Zlatko Keser. For most of the people he was a cookoo who doesn’t know how to play social games, but he’s a complete genius and such a channel of creative energy. With a little help from him and after leaving school, I managed to get back on track. Goddamn Art Academy, the killer of creativity.

But in Zagreb I also became a part of Komikaze, an awesome comic collective who has been publishing authors from all around Europe and World, mostly on the web, but on paper as well. It is a very inspiring collective and with them I traveled around Europe, did some crazy workshops and tours (as I mentioned before) and through them I managed to encounter a bunch of excellent artist and people. I heavily recommend checking out: www.komikaze.hr. Also we made the exhibition of Komikaze in Floating World this January so Portlanders can see it.

And then in 2007 I enrolled in the School of Visual Arts in New York. That school and my American experience is a different story all together. On SVA we were taught how to market ourselves, where to place ourselves in the “art industry” and how to network to get recognition. It’s a very pragmatic, US kind of angle on art, totally different from what I’ve been taught before. It’s all about how to succeed and in that message there is a strong underlying tone of potential catastrophe if you fail. That school offered me some great things, especially in the form of professors like Gary Panter, David Sandlin and many others. But art education must not be so goddamn expensive. Art is not some extremely useful craft to know and that’s why they must be all about marketing, I guess. If you become successful, then the school is good. But success is not a measurement of quality.

This may all sound like a bitter talk, but honestly, I’m just observing all the methods and perspectives of art education that have been given to me.

I got sick and tired of N.Y.’s constant competitiveness so I moved to Portland with a help from my friend Lisa Mangum, without whom it would all be much harder. She helped me and my boyfriend Zoran start a new life in some other town in the U.S. And now I’m here, going back to Croatia for a couple of months every year, maintaining 2 parallel lives.

What is your family like, did they support your decision to be an artist?

My family has always been very supportive in my intentions to become “an artist”. Since I knew what I wanted to be from the start, I guess it was easy for my father and mother to let it be. They supported me the whole time and they still do, even though I didn’t become a famous artist like they expected hahaha. Bummer!

My grandfather is probably the most responsible for me becoming an artist. He was supporting my creativity in every way, supplying the drawing materials, collecting and archiving my works, showing me art books... Also he was the one to teach me how to read at an early age and started buying me comics on a regular basis. He spent a lot of time with me and had built some cultural foundations in my personality. He was a professor in school but he loved to draw from nature in his spare time, clouds, sea, marine landscapes, mostly while on his sailing trips. There is some timeless serenity coming out of his drawings. Obviously, he’s a very important person in my art life and life in general. And my grandma is the only person who really likes my abstract works!

What made you decide to study at the School of Visual Art? How long were you in NY?

I wanted to get out of Croatia because, it felt stale at one point and my art stopped progressing. I needed some kind of a shock therapy. I wanted to go to France but I didn’t know French. So I chose to come to U.S., being that this is the cradle of comics.

Spent 2 and a half years in N.Y. and never really grew to like it. Now, I like the fact I lived there and that I can always come back there as if it was my own place, devour as much as I can in a couple of days and then leave again for a better place. The low quality of life really bothered me, millions of choices are not everything you need in life and. especially if you don’t have time, then those millions of choices mean nothing to you.

N.Y. is a funny place, it always has this aura of nostalgia because it’s constantly changing and even yesterday seems like something from the past.

I always wonder what brings artists to Portland – it seems like kind of an obscure place compared to other exciting cities on the West Coast. What is there here that is helping you do what you do, and what if anything does Portland lack for you?

It is totally weird. Even before I came here I had a good feeling about this place. First time I came here to visit was when Lisa organized an exhibit in Floating World Comics. So I had a whole week to digest the city. Then I came back to N.Y. and described everything to my boyfriend and in 2 months we were here.

Portland has a good quality of life. I guess it matters to me cuz I’m 30. When I was 22, I really didn’t care about that. One has a plenty of time here, there is plenty of trees, plenty of bike lanes and plenty of artist that give you a sense of community and scene belonging. You actually collaborate with people out of sheer pleasure, not out of wish to network your way to success.

Sometimes, but very veeeeeery rarely I feel like being in a story where every character has the same identity and interests. That feeling of lack of diversity is probably an after-N.Y. syndrome. I actually love it here.

And I’m not going to say anything about the rain.

How did you meet Lisa Mangum and arrange the group art show at Floating World last year?

Lisa and I met on my island, where she visited me with our mutual friend Aca 3 yrs ago. They stayed only one day but we managed to go swimming together and were trying to revive a dead fish. The next time we saw each other was in N.Y., and the next thing was a show of comics from Croatia and Serbia in Portland that Lisa organized with Jason Leivian in Floating World Comics. I was exhibiting along with a couple of my friends and awesome artists Igor Hofbauer, Aleksandar Opacic, Radovan Popovic. And the next time I saw her was when I moved with my boyfriend to Portland in the house where she lived with other friends. We don’t waste time, you know.

What are your main influences as an artist?

In a random order: 60’s and 70’s hairstyles, outsider art in every form, Constructivism, ceramics (even though I’m not making it, but I’d love to), street art and art in the woods, trashy you tube videos, photos from socialistic era, Yugo-nostalgia, thrift stores and flea markets, Kosmoplovci, Komikaze, indigenous art, masks, ritual dances, rituals in general, smoking cigarettes, quitting smoking and then starting smoking again, afghan war rugs, Indian rugs and art in general, music, green architecture, black olives, diving, diving, dying...

Dunja's website

Buy Department of Art

Rina Ayuyang inteverviewed by Austin English

noreply@blogger.com (dylan sparkplug) — Wed, 17 Feb 2010 22:26:00 +0000

Rina Ayuyang (creator of Whilwind Wonderland) answers 20 questions from Austin English at his wonderful blog!

20cartoonquestions.blogspot.com/2010/02/rina-ayuyang.html

Portland Zine Symposium: Art Call and Dates!

noreply@blogger.com (dylan sparkplug) — Wed, 17 Feb 2010 22:01:00 +0000

The 10th Annual Portland Zine Symposium will be August 28th & 29th, 2010!

In addition, this year's PZS will not be held in the Smith Ballroom, but it will instead be held at PSU's Peter W. Stott Main Gym.

We should be opening up registration in early April and we will be rolling out a new perk, early bird registration versus late registration.

In other news, you still have a month to try and make your original art THE art work to represent the 2010 Portland Zine Symposium. Just send us your "Zine Arcade!" inspired art! Check out our submissions call for this year: http://groups.google.com/group/portlandzinesymposium/web/2010-poster-art-call---pzs

Comics reading group in Portland!

noreply@blogger.com (dylan sparkplug) — Mon, 08 Feb 2010 19:48:00 +0000

The inimitable John Isaacson will be leading a comics reading group at the IPRC starting this weekend. I'm really looking forward to this:

February 21, 2010 from 7:00 pm to 8:16 pm

Have you been a fan of comics for years? Have you never really read comics? Do you enjoy reading and discussing art and literature? If so, this is the group for you! We will be splitting the hour-long group in to two parts: in the first half we will read and discuss short cartoons and comics, this first half is open for drop-in—no pre-reading necessary! In the second half, the group will discuss pre-assigned comics and discuss them. The group will meet regularly every other Sunday from 7-8:15, it is free and open to the public.

An IPRC Documentary!

noreply@blogger.com (dylan sparkplug) — Mon, 08 Feb 2010 18:39:00 +0000

This is a great short documentary on one of my favorite joints in Portland. The Independent Publishing Resource Center:

It'll put a smile on yer face.

Newsprint!

noreply@blogger.com (dylan sparkplug) — Mon, 08 Feb 2010 13:48:00 +0000

A really cool ad for Traditional Comics, one of my favorite companies:

New Empire Born!

noreply@blogger.com (dylan sparkplug) — Mon, 08 Feb 2010 03:49:00 +0000

John Porcellino (creator of the longest running best comic ever: King Cat) has started distributing all the best comix by other people. Seriously cool stuff by Noah Van Sciver, Jason Martin and more. Since John basically started the idea of distro-ing minis to people (spit-and-a-half) it is only fitting that he do such an awesome thing again. Order lots and lots of everything, including King Cat!

www.king-cat.net

Profanity Hill is live!

noreply@blogger.com (dylan sparkplug) — Thu, 04 Feb 2010 14:38:00 +0000

Running a small online distro of mini comics makes me really really really appreciate a well run small online distro of comics. The inimitable Jason T. Miles (creator of Dead Ringer, available from La Mano) just started an amazing Seattle Comix and Zine distro called Profanity Hill.

I placed an order and the books came right away, with such care. Profanity Hill specializes in art created by citizens of the Emerald City to the North (Seattle) but there is such a variety that I had a hard time just picking a few books. Most of Miles' own minis are also availble on the site too.

Please take a look and order a bunch. I feel like our only way around crappy big comic monopolies squeezing out any personality in comix is to support people offering such a variety. Try new stuff and learn about other local scenes. Let me know if you need any recommendations. Profanity Hill 4ever!

profanityhill.blogspot.com

Rob Clough reviews Big Plans 4

2d46aron@vfs.com (Aron Nels Steinke) — Thu, 21 Jan 2010 16:03:00 +0000

Yesterday Rob CLough posted this review of Big Plans 4 at The Comics Journal. This is one of the more interesting reviews I've read about my work.

San Jose Comics Fest this week end.

noreply@blogger.com (dylan sparkplug) — Wed, 13 Jan 2010 19:14:00 +0000

Slave Labour is hosting a show in San Jose this weeked. And being the nice folks they are they've made some room for Sparkplug. I'm going to go along with old friend Landry Walker. Susie Cagle and Eric Searleman (one of my favorite alternative cartoonists from the early 90s) will be there as well as a host of other cartoonists.

http://www.sjcomicsfest.com/

Saturday January 16th

Admission is FREE

Hours: 12-5:00 PM

Location:
SLG Art Boutiki & Gallery
577 S. Market Street
San Jose, CA 95113
408-971-8929

Sacramento Indy Comix Show THIS WEEKEND!

noreply@blogger.com (dylan sparkplug) — Tue, 05 Jan 2010 18:27:00 +0000

What are you doing this Saturday and Sunday? You should be going to Indy Euphoria in Sacramento California. We may even have a brand new Sparkplug book to premiere at the show!
Here is the info:

THE SCOTTISH RITE CENTER
6151 H Street - Across from Sac State University

SATURDAY
10AM - 7PM

SUNDAY
10AM - 6PM
Admission:

ONE DAY PASS
$6.00

WEEKEND
$10.00

Sparkplug will be there as will Sparkplug friends Rina Ayuyang, Tom Neely, Jesse Reklaw, Damien Jay, Andrice Arp, Josh Frankel, Minty Lewis, Jason Martin, Jed Alexander and the Family Style crew. And then some jokers like Nate Powell and Jim Woodring. Well worth a trip to Sacramento. See you there.

www.sacramentocomics.com/indy

Inkstuds interview

2d46aron@vfs.com (Aron Nels Steinke) — Fri, 01 Jan 2010 04:09:00 +0000

Hey people, I just did an interview with Robin McConnell and his Inkstuds radio program. You can listen to it here.

David King website is ALL NEW

noreply@blogger.com (dylan sparkplug) — Sun, 27 Dec 2009 11:21:00 +0000

David has revamped the Reliable comics website, it looks BE-OOOTIFUL:
www.reliablecomics.com

"I made a lot of changes to Reliable Comics to make it more of a blog/e-comics deal. For the next month or so there'll be daily postings of all the past Danny Dutch comic strips (I renamed the strip to Reliable Comics' Laugh Menu because there's a dude on flickr named Danny Dutch now and his updates are screwing with my Google Alerts, and the strip's more of an ensemble thing anyhow *making a smug Hollywood face*) and I'm going to put as much of my other comics and drawing junk on there as I can get around to. So check it out and post some comments and subscribe to the RSS feed and buy comics from Sparkplug. From now on I'll only use this site to share Hulu clips and lettering samples."

Nurse Nurse at Arthur!

noreply@blogger.com (dylan sparkplug) — Sun, 27 Dec 2009 11:17:00 +0000

Sparkplug favorite Katie Skelly got a big write up for the new issue of Nurse Nurse and the series at Arthur:
www.arthurmag.com
and here is here website, a must:
calico-comics.livejournal.com

A = A

noreply@blogger.com (dylan sparkplug) — Sat, 19 Dec 2009 02:52:00 +0000

The only trouble with Steve Ditko is how much amazing stuff he's done in the past thirty years. Where to start? I just added four new books to the Sparkplug web store. All by Steve Ditko:

Mr. A
160 Page Package
Ditko Package
Avenging World

All are highly recommended. Check 'em out.
www.sparkplugcomicbooks.com

Comics as Poetry

noreply@blogger.com (tomN!) — Thu, 10 Dec 2009 18:14:00 +0000

"Like all the best poetry, what a reader gets out of comics-as-poetry is entirely dependent on how willing they are to truly engage the material and articulate the feelings it evokes."

The new and improved The Comics Journal Online has been redesigned, has a slew of new writers and bloggers, and is quickly filling up with a lot of great articles about comics.

And whaddaya know- the writer/critic Rob Clough has written a very good 3 part article on "comics-as-poetry" and he focuses on 2 of my favorite books: Asthma by John Hankiewicz and The Blot by Tom Neely.

Read Part 1 here

Part 2 focuses on Asthma

Part 3 focuses on The Blot

If you haven't read Asthma- get it now!

If you haven't read The Blot - what's wrong with you?

Mardou and you.

noreply@blogger.com (dylan sparkplug) — Wed, 09 Dec 2009 22:01:00 +0000

We just added three new books to the webstore. Mardou's Washing Maching, Manhole #2 and Manhole #3. All modern classics and some of my favorite self published comics.

www.sparkplugcomicbooks.com

Sparkplug at Brooklyn Comics Fest

noreply@blogger.com (Austin English) — Tue, 08 Dec 2009 21:48:00 +0000

Sparkplug had a blast at the Brooklyn Comics Fest! One of the most fun shows I've ever been to...

It made you feel good to be involved with comics. Sometimes it really hits you how vibrant and alive the comics community/movement is, and this was really one of those times. To be surrounded by a lot of fellow artists, all with really different artistic methods/aspirations/ideas who were all showing their comics that they worked hard on---what a great feeling. The space was so tiny and cozy that you really felt elbow to elbow with all these talented folks. And to have a hall packed with really enthusiastic READERS made you feel like all this work has a real audience, that it's really appreciated and enjoyed. Sometimes you will go to these things and the comics you sell will be met with a perplexed look. But this show, people really seemed to get it already and really wanted to meet their favorite comic creators. A bunch of people wanted to know when Jin and Jam #2 would be out! When IS it coming out, anyway?

Thanks to Gabe Fowler and Dan Nadel for setting up the event. I can't imagine it was easy. Here are some pictures of me and Nate running the booth, and the crowd.

Two Inspirations

noreply@blogger.com (dylan sparkplug) — Sat, 05 Dec 2009 01:47:00 +0000

We've just added two new self published books to the Sparkplug website store: I Still Live by Annie Murphy and Estrus #7 by Mari Naomi. Great stuff, take a look:

www.sparkplugcomicbooks.com

Brooklyn Comics and Graphics Phestival!

noreply@blogger.com (dylan sparkplug) — Fri, 04 Dec 2009 04:31:00 +0000

The Brooklyn Comics and Graphics Festival is this Saturday! Go check it out if you are in the New York City area. Sparkplug will be there, run by Austin English and Nate Doyle. Maria Sputnik may be showing up at our table too.

Saturday December 5th 2009
11 AM - 7 PM

184 Metropolitan Ave
Williamsburg, Brooklyn

www.comicsandgraphicsfest.com

The great Gary Arlington

noreply@blogger.com (dylan sparkplug) — Wed, 02 Dec 2009 22:58:00 +0000

May 10, 1972 in an interview with the amazing Patrick Rosenkranz, Gary Arlington had this to say when asked "What's new?"

Artlington: "Justin Green is coming out with the world's first underground comic books that's going to sell for seven cents. It's going to be pocket-sized. It's goint to have eight pages in black and white. It's one single piece of 8 1/2" x 11" paper and it's folded and stapled. I said to myself, man, I could do this, too. Anybody can put out a little comic book for seven cents. Only costs you $20 to $25, plus your time of stapling and folding. That would be a real underground comic. I think Justin has started something that's going to really catch on. You get these young aspiring artists. First of all, son, if you want to put your own comic, we got to get a lot of money together and do a full color cover. Then you've got to compete with Crumb. You've got to be really good. It's going to cost you several hundred to go down to the printer and have the insides printed. That's discouraged a lot of people. Now there's a little seven-cent comic, everybody can come out with their own comic."

As Rosenkranz points out in a foot note: this is the birth of the mini comic. Pretty amazing. I've heard complaints about how easy it is for everybody to make comics for years. For me that cheap and easy production has always been the thing that kept me interested in comix as an art form. The idea that with 20 bucks anyone can put their art out to the world. And with the internet, obviously all you need is access to the write tools (sometimes that can cost more than 20 bucks).

Anyway, that interview is from one of the best issues of the Comics Journal ever, the Ivan Brunetti one (#264). Rosenkranz interviewed Denis Kitchen, Arlington, Jack Jackson, Don Schenker, Jay Lynch, Ron Turner and Fred Todd. Fantagraphics still has copies.

Strange Bed Fellows!

noreply@blogger.com (dylan sparkplug) — Wed, 02 Dec 2009 22:37:00 +0000

Two new books added to our online store. Big Plans #4 Aron Nels Steinke and Crime World by David King! Both equally amazing.

A Resurrected Ken Kesey

noreply@blogger.com (Steve Lafler) — Wed, 02 Dec 2009 18:31:00 +0000

The resurrected Ken Kesey is working the drive up window at Rita's Tacos, filling orders and dispensing cryptic advice.
I wouldn't usually post a link to my El Vocho comics blog here, but maybe some folks in the Portland comics community share my affection for the late, great Kesey. I thanks ya for your indulgence!

"Ya can't quit da mob!"
-Ken Kesey

1883/Crooked Teeth #5 party and fund raiser!

noreply@blogger.com (dylan sparkplug) — Mon, 30 Nov 2009 22:02:00 +0000

Please join us for a fund raiser benefiting cartoonists Mollie Goldstrom and Nate Doyle (easily two of Sparkplugs favorite people)!

Both cartoonists have major new comics in the works---Goldstrom with "1883" and Doyle with "Crooked Teeth #5."

This is a fund raiser for upstart publisher Sweetheart books to gather some start up funds to put out Mollie's work in the format and volume it deserves....and for Nate to self-publish the latest issue of his beloved comic.

And it'll also be a really fun party! Live music! Cheap drinks! Original art for sale! Supporting the local arts community! How could you miss something like this? Isn't this the reason you live in New York in the first place?? OK we will see you there right? OK cool!

Starts at 9pm on December 4th (that's right...the night before Desert Island/Picturebox's Brooklyn Comix Fest)! $5-10 suggested donation. Yeah, you can come for free but c'moonnnnnn....

take the L train to the jefferson stop. The party will be at:
538 Johnson Ave, Apt. #210

write to
austin.robertson.english@gmail.com
for more info/if you wanna help out

See you there!