Sparkplug Comic Books has been busy this year! Here are a few of their recent releases:

Asiaddict by Mats!?
This amazing collection of illustrated travel chronicles the bizarre as well as the mundane experiences of a recent trip through Thailand, Cambodia and Laos.

Wiping off the nostalgic "Shangri-La" mystique off of contemporary monstro-"Cities" like Bangkok; it reveals a more western smearedbellished recent history...with a few "Bombs" dropped in between...

With his flair for details, Mats!? takes us on a journey, littered with landmines, through a landscape of beauty and horror, humor and disbelief.

Mine Tonight by Trevor Alixopulos

Stylish, violent, and sordid, Mine Tonight is a story of individuals with high ideals but few scruples.

Lukas is an amoral gun for hire who finds himself embroiled in the corrupt 2004 Presidential Election. Pulp noir blurs with autobiography as the lives of Lukas and Alixopulos intersect, from the heady chaos of 1990s WTO protest Seattle to the moral fog of post-9/11 New York.

Matter Summer Special by Philip Barrett

When the local wacky-backy supply runs dry and the chopped-up grilled skin-of-banana still refuses to smoke right, the world of full-time wasters Whitey White and Sean Brown becomes all hard-edged and distinct. Worse still: their sex-drives are returning! In desperation the duo respond to a small-ad cypher and soon receive the kind of imbibation capable of transporting them through an interdimensional lesion and are soon embroiled in a covert corporate struggle for monopoly of the transporting substance.

Tales to Demolish #3 by Eric Haven

Eric Haven is back with a new issue of Tales To Demolish... in eye-popping full color! Deconstructing the tawdry form of the traditional comic book, Haven builds layers of dark, dorkish humor to undermine the expectations of certain familiar genres.

Watching Days Become Years #3 by Jeff LeVine

"When I sit down at my drawing table – scratch that because I don't really have a drawing table anymore... Actually most of these comics were drawn on the fly, on the road, wherever I happened to be – sitting in a cafe, on a street corner, on the sidewalk, in a park – wherever. The goal is to capture that elusive something, possibly a little bit of the truth, through the wonderfulness of words combined with pictures i.e. comic books. At the same time the goal is to try to create something new, to find a new angle, a new approach – to challenge myself and hopefully the future reader."

Asthma by John Hankiewicz

Asthma is a collection of recent comics by John Hankiewicz. From story to story, even page to page, the book mixes a startling range of graphic and narrative styles to form a dreamlike whole.
At once perplexing and moving, disturbing and playful, Asthma explores the formal and emotional reaches of the comics medium.

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