This weekend Portland Oregon will play host to a myriad of comic geeks. Oh how I wish I were there. I love comic-cons and I love Portland, this is win, win. Sparkplug comics has not only announced that they will be attending this festival, but they will also be premiering 3 books while there. So for all of you comic fans stuck at work and wishing they were soaking up the cloudy haze of Oregon, here is a pre-preview of the 3 titles.
Department of Art by Dunja Jankovic
Do you know the world you live in? Hmm? Are you sure?
Are you sure sure? How about, you’d like to know the world you live in but the truth scares you. Yes, you’re scared, I can sense you’re trembling. You almost spilled your coffee. Actually you did, all over your self and now you’re burned heavily and should go to hospital but you’re all alone in the house and have no friends to call for help so you just sit there, burned and sad.
Read this comic and be afraid with me. We can share the same emotions
Reich #6 by Elijah Brubaker
Reich is a biographical account of psychoanalyst and sex researcher Dr. Wilhelm Reich, a protégé of Freud. He courted scandal throughout Europe where he became known mostly for his controversial and radical ideas. Reich claimed to discover a palpable sexual energy, which he called “Orgone.”
“Cartoonist and illustrator, Elijah Brubaker has really started to get critics attention with his current comic book project Reich, from Sparkplug Comics: a fictionalized account of the notorious life of psychoanalyst Wilheilm Reich, who was persecuted throughout his professional life for his theories on human sexuality. Through a long time fascination and exhaustive research, Brubaker has crafted an absorbing portrait of a tortured and ambitious man, and he hasn’t even gotten to the part about aliens yet!”
David Paggi at Wizard Universe
Bird Hurdler by Andrice Arp, Theo Ellsworth, Faryl Dalrymple, Zack Soto, Lisa Rosalie Eisenberg and Julia Gfrörer
(this is a free book Co-Published by Sparkplug, Teenage Dinosaur and Tugboat Press)
Last year, free comic produced by Tugboat Press, Teenage Dinosaur, and Spark Plug was called Nerd Burgler.
This year, the same three-odd publishers have again banded together to create Bird Hurdler. Shudder to think what next year’s free comic might be entitled…
