Sparkplug at APE!

Sparkplug will be at APE in San Francisco this weekend! Please stop by to say hi, buy books and chat with our artists! APE takes place at the Concourse Exhibition Center on Saturday, October 1st and Sunday October 2nd.

Also, Tom Neely, Landry Walker and others will be participating in the panel "Remembering Dylan Williams" on Sunday at 12:45. Please join us in celebrating Dylan's life and work.
Here is the panel description:
12:45 Remembering Dylan Williams—The indie comics world lost one of our own on September 10 when Dylan Williams passed away. Dylan was a tireless champion of creators with unique visions, and promoted their work through his career, starting with the mini-comics coop Puppy Toss and a stint behind the counter at Comic Relief. He is best known as the publisher of Sparkplug Comic Books. Artists, publishers, and friends who were touched by Dylan's influence -- including Tom Devlin, Todd Martinez, Tom Neely, Virginia Paine, Landry Walker, and others -- join together to remember Dylan and his passion for comics in this special tribute panel. Please attend and share your memories.

Thanks for your continued patience.

Hello friends of Sparkplug,

I am just writing to check in, and thank everyone who has ordered something for their continued patience. Sparkplug has always been a small company - I have been Dylan's only employee for the last year. I have a lot of help right now, but things are still going slowly with order processing. I'm waiting on many titles to be restocked in order to ship several dozen orders. Again, if you have any questions about your order, please contact me (virginia (at) sparkplugcomicbooks (dot) com) and I will do my best to help.

I'd also like to confirm that there WILL be a Sparkplug table at APE, the Minneapolis Indie Expo and Brooklyn Comics and Graphics Fest. We look forward to seeing you there!

Thanks again for your continued support of Sparkplug and Dylan.

-Virginia

Dylan

I have been having a lot of trouble articulating what I've been feeling the last couple days, but I'm going to try. Many, many people have written beautiful things about Dylan's passing. I urge you to read their loving tributes; everyone's perspective is slightly different, but all agree that there wasn't a kinder, more passionate soul than Dylan.

I don't know what to say about him. I feel like I didn't know him as well as I could have, even though I was his student and his employee. He means a lot to the comics community, as does Sparkplug. I'm going to miss talking to him about feminism, veganism and queer issues. I'm going to miss listening to late 90s emo with him. I'm going to miss him disrupting my work so we could talk, because he cared more about talking to me than he did about squeezing every last bit of work out of me. I'm going to miss him apologizing when I complained about being tired, and apologizing about everything else.

I was so, so grateful when he gave me this job. I hope he knew how thankful I am, and how honored I am to be his employee and friend.

I think that's all I have to say for now. My heart goes out to everyone who loved Dylan. Please let me know if you need anything.


I do feel like I should mention to folks who have ordered things from us that I am doing my best to get us back on track, but filling orders is going rather slowly. I've got some people coming to help this week and I'm going to try to get a lot done this week. Thank you for your continued patience. If you have any questions about your order, please contact me: virginia (at) sparkplugcomicbooks (dot) com

We are welcoming new orders as well, if you don't mind the wait. I'm not sure what the costs are looking like for Emily, but I think this is a good way to contribute.

Thank you everyone for supporting Dylan and Sparkplug.

Sparkplug at SPX!

Tom Neely will be covering his own I Will Destroy You table as well as Sparkplug's this weekend at SPX. Please stop and say hi if you are there! He'll have have plenty of copies of our Ignatz-nominated books!

Repost: An Additional Thank You, and a Note

I'm reposting this, because I wanted to say thank you to everyone again, and also to say, if you have any questions about your order and its status, please feel free to contact me: virginia (at) sparkplugcomicbooks (dot) com.

Thanks again. I appreciate your patience!

An Additional Thank You, and a Note

Hey All, Virginia here.

First of all, thank you everyone for your support! I'm so gratified at the response and obviously Dylan appreciates it enormously. Y'all are wonderful.

Second, a little note about your orders.
Again, thank you SO much! It's amazing to see so much support. I've been plugging away at orders as fast as I can, but we have been running out of stock of several books. They have been ordered, but it may add a little delay to some orders while we wait for the books to come in. I want to thank you so much for your patience and understanding as we work our way through your orders! <3

SF Zine Fest!

Sparkplug will be tabling (thanks to the wonderful Annie Murphy) at SF Zine Fest tomorrow and Sunday. Please stop by if you are in the Bay Area and check out our books!

An Additional Thank You, and a Note

Hey All, Virginia here.

First of all, thank you everyone for your support! I'm so gratified at the response and obviously Dylan appreciates it enormously. Y'all are wonderful.

Second, a little note about your orders.
Again, thank you SO much! It's amazing to see so much support. I've been plugging away at orders as fast as I can, but we have been running out of stock of several books. They have been ordered, but it may add a little delay to some orders while we wait for the books to come in. I want to thank you so much for your patience and understanding as we work our way through your orders! <3

Thank you so much.

I figure I should check in and let people know I'm doing okay. I've got more treatments ahead but I'm doing well. And me and Sparkplug owe a giant thank you for all the help everyone has given us during me being conked out. I'm a lot less worried about the way things will go now.
Dylan