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Silver Sprocket’s Reveals its Spring 2022 Releases

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For the Spring 2022 publishing season, Silver Sprocket’s most ambitious slate yet of 15 new titles includes an Eisner Award-winning new edition from Ben Passmore, original gems from indie comic superstars like Benji Nate and Ben Snakepit, and collections of massively popular Twitter-comic sensations like Little Tunny and Alec Robbins.

A Self Defense Study Guide for Trans Women and Gender Non-Conforming / Nonbinary AMAB Folks by TransFighters Oakland

A Self-Defense Study Guide for Trans Women and Gender Non-Conforming / Nonbinary AMAB Folks offers strategies based in lived experience, ranging from using body language and creating safety in numbers, to training Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu moves. The zine includes chapters on how to handle people who have legal or financial power over you, cis women gropers, and menfolk bullies, along with instruction on how to back each other up as a group and how to pause a makeout. Trans women, AMAB nonbinary, and AMAB gender-nonconforming people need self-defense that reflects the specific kinds of threats we get. This study guide is one resource for expanding your toolkit to keep on living in this world.

40 Full-color pages; 5” x 5”; ISBN: 978-1-945509-75-9; SRP: $5.00; Release date: 2/1/2022

A Self Defense Study Guide for Trans Women and Gender Non-Conforming / Nonbinary AMAB Folks by TransFighters Oakland

Sports Is Hell by Ben Passmore

Some wars are for religion and some are for political belief, but this one is for football.

After her city wins the Super Bowl for the first time, Tea is separated from her friend during a riot and joins a small clique fighting its way through armed groups of football fanatics to meet a star receiver that just might end the civil war or become the city’s new oppressive leader.

Winner of the 2021 Eisner Award for Best Single Issue, Sports Is Hell by Ben Passmore is back in print with Silver Sprocket after the shuttering of previous publisher Koyama Press.

60 Partial-color pages; 8.5” x 11”; Softcover ISBN: 978-1-945509-67-4; SRP: $15.00; Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-945509-55-1; SRP: $24.99; Release date: 1/12/2022

Sports Is Hell by Ben Passmore

Good Boy Magazine #2

Good Boy Magazine is back, chock full of the finest, highest quality comics around! This issue: an interview with Gerard Way, plus over 100 brand new, full-color pages from superstar artists like Benji Nate, Michael Sweater, Alex Krokus, Ashley Robin Franklin, and more. Read comics or go to hell.

136 Full-color pages; 7” x 10”; ISBN: 978-1-945509-81-0; SRP: $9.99; Release date: 1/19/2022

Good Boy Magazine #2

Everything Sucks #1 by Michael Sweater

Noah and Calla are high, hungry, and should probably go outside. Unfortunately, the outside sucks. You can’t even get a burger without the whole place almost burning down!

Michael Sweater combines 90s animation nostalgia, sitcom antics, and a seasoning of stoner comedy in this new series. Includes stickers and a double-sided poster!

32 Full-color pages; 6.625” x 10.187”; ISBN 978-1-945509-86-5; SRP: $5.99; Release date: 1/26/22

Everything Sucks #1 by Michael Sweater

Puke Banter by James the Stanton

Someone whose name rhymes with “Pink Panther” has puked at the bus stop, and no one is going to clean it up. Thankfully, nature finds a way. A Gnartoons mini-comic by James the Stanton, presented in brilliant neon!

24 Neon-color pages; 4.25” x 5.5”; ISBN: 978-1-945509-87-2; SRP: $4.99; Release date: 2/9/2022

Puke Banter by James the Stanton

One Hundred Columns for Razorcake by Ben Snakepit: The Complete Comics 2003-2020

All of Ben Snakepit’s comics for Razorcake magazine, collected into one definitive volume! Spanning from 2003 until 2020, Snakepit covers the essentials of DIY punk life, from show reviews and scene reports, to the basics of touring on the cheap and making friends on the road, to falling in love and eating pizza he found face-down on the street. Offered with retrospective footnotes from the artist, this collection shows the growth and change of one punk’s perspective.

112 B&W pages; 6” x 9”; ISBN: 978-1-945509-79-7; SRP: $11.99; Release date: 2/16/2022

One Hundred Columns for Razorcake by Ben Snakepit: The Complete Comics 2003-2020

Hell Phone, Book One by Benji Nate

Sissy and Lola are best friends, next-door neighbors, and now… murder solvers? When Sissy picks up a lost flip-phone and follows the instructions from the stranger on the other line, she and Lola are flung into an investigation of a grisly crime. With each new phone call, the girls are dug deeper into a conspiracy that threatens their lives—and possibly their friendship. But with no way to escape the dreaded calls, the only way out is to unravel the mystery.

160 Full-color pages; 5.875” x 8.25”; ISBN: 978-1-945509-82-7; SRP: $14.99; Release date: 3/9/2022

Hell Phone, Book One by Benji Nate

Gnartoons by James the Stanton

The long-awaited collection of James the Stanton’s beloved Gnartoons comics is here! Drink a 40 with a skateboarding dog, light a cop car on fire with a herd of friendly forest critters, and eat a pizza brunch with a bunch of radical dinosaurs. Stanton’s trademark trippy humor wriggles and shines its way through each lushly illustrated comic vignette, now lovingly presented in a deluxe hardcover.

272 Full-color pages; 6” x 9”; ISBN: 978-1-945509-41-4; SRP: $29.99; Release date: 3/23/2022

Gnartoons by James the Stanton

Puppy Knight: Den of Deception by Michael Sweater and Josue Cruz

There’s no knight braver than Sparky Muttson! (Except maybe his enthusiastic and very cute apprentice, Pugsly.) They’re ready for their first adventure together, and while this quest might not turn out exactly how they expected, Sparky and Pugsly have the chops to make it through—no bones about it!

All Ages; 48 Full-color pages; 7.3” x 11”; ISBN: 978-1-945509-83-4; SRP: $12.99; Release date: 4/13/2022

Puppy Knight: Den of Deception by Michael Sweater and Josue Cruz

ish by Adam de Souza

An evocative and contemplative collection of short comics from cartoonist Adam de Souza, ish explores the complicated nature of grief through a series of loosely connected vignettes. Each brief glimpse brings another layer to the nuances of healing—from the deep muck of despair to unexpected joys—all told with care and thoughtfulness that shows through the page.

56 Full-color pages; 8” x 10”; ISBN: 978-1-945509-88-9; SRP: $14.99; Release date: 4/27/2022

ish by Adam de Souza

Mr. Boop by Alec Robbins

The beloved webcomic collected in its entirety for the first time in a beautiful deluxe edition!

Author Alec Robbins is deeply in love with his wife, 1930s cartoon superstar Betty Boop. And wouldn’t you know it, she loves him back! It’s the perfect marriage, and nothing will ever go wrong. They’ll be happy together forever and nothing will ever come between them—not other famous cartoon characters, not intellectual property law, and certainly not Alec’s own towering insecurities. Basically, they’re just both really happy together and everything’s good and nice and that’s the end of it. No more questions. Don’t even bother reading this comic.

Absurdist humor, a middle finger to corporate IP, and a sweetly romantic heart blend together into one of the most inventive comics of the Twitter age.

384 B&W pages; 8” x 8”; ISBN: 978-1-945509-80-3; SRP: $39.99; Release date: 5/25/2022

Mr. Boop by Alec Robbins

Little Tunny’s Snail Diaries by Grace Gogarty

Snail Diaries collects the very best of the hit weekly diary comics by Grace Gogarty, aka Little Tunny! Lovingly drawn on scraps of paper and broken laptops, Little Tunny documents the highs and lows of living with pets, working customer service, and simply trying to exist as a person in modern society. Hilarious, sweet, and sometimes entirely too real for a comic starring a snail.

160 Full-color pages; 6.5 x 6.5″; ISBN: 978-1-945509-84-1; SRP: $24.99; Release date: 6/15/2022

Little Tunny’s Snail Diaries by Grace Gogarty

Paradox of Getting Better by Raven Clemens

In three vignettes, a young adult deals with different stages of their life, trauma, and mental illness. As their identity transforms, so does their perspective. An intense, incisive look at what it takes to keep surviving.

88 B&W pages; 7” x 9”; ISBN: 978-1-945509-89-6; SRP: tbd; Release date: 6/21/2022

Paradox of Getting Better by Raven Clemens

Cicatrix by Elle

A powerful study in introspection, inheritance, and the manifestation of hypochondria by a talented indie cartoonist. Beautifully illustrated and poignantly told, the author investigates the guilt they carry as a young Filipino person born into a family that benefited from the Marcos regime, and how that materializes within the physical body.

48 Full-color pages; 8” x 11″; ISBN: 978-1-945509-86-5; SRP: tbd; Release date: 7/6/22

Cicatrix by Elle

Let’s Get Burgers by ash s.

This is a comic about a cat named Knife and a dog named Cheddar who are best friends, love burgers, hate capitalism, and are just trying their best, okay? That’s pretty much it. Collects the entire hit webcomic!

208 Full-color pages; 6” x 6”; ISBN: 978-1-945509-90-2; SRP: tbd; Release date: 7/20/22

Let’s Get Burgers by ash s.

Small Press Expo Announces Rebecca Sugar, Kat Fajardo, Ben Passmore, Jason Lutes, Benji Nate, Carolyn Nowak, Carol Tyler, and Nate Powell

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Small Press Expo proudly announces more Special Guests for SPX 2018. The festival takes place on Saturday and Sunday, September 15-16, at the Bethesda North Marriott Hotel & Conference Center and will have over 650 creators, 280 exhibitor tables and 22 programming slots to introduce attendees to the amazing world of independent and small press comics. Additional Special Guests will be announced shortly.

SPX 2018 is honored to have the following creators as Special Guests to this year’s show:

Rebecca Sugar

Rebecca Sugar is the creator of Cartoon Network’s Emmy-nominated series Steven Universe, an animated coming-of-age story told from the perspective of Steven, the “little brother” to a team of magical guardians of humanity—the Crystal Gems.

After graduating from the School of Visual Arts (SVA) with a BFA in Animation, Sugar joined Adventure Time in 2009. During her time on the iconic series as a storyboard artist and writer, Sugar garnered both Emmy nominations and an Annie Award win, as well a deep fan base following the many songs she wrote for the show.

Sugar was recently included in Variety’s Hollywood’s New Leaders 2016: The Creatives list, where she was recognized alongside other notable artists such as Damien Chazelle, Jerrod Carmichael and Donald Glover. A children’s book adaptation of the Emmy-nominated Steven Universe episode “The Answer” also written by Sugar was released on Sept. 6., 2016 where it became a New York Times bestseller.

Kat Fajardo

Kat Fajardo is an award-winning comic artist and illustrator born & raised in NYC. She is best known for her playful and colorful auto-biographical work about self acceptance and Latinx culture. She’s recently illustrated the cover for Celia C. Pérez’s The First Rule of Punk (Penguin Random House) and was featured in several anthologies. Hoping to boost Latinx narrative in comics, she’s also edited La Raza Anthology and created the grant-winning series Bandida! You can check out her artwork on this year’s SPX program cover or at her website.

Ben Passmore

Ben Passmore lives in Philly. His comics are about crime, monsters, anarchism, sexual dysfunction, police brutality, art theory, and his feels. Creator of DAYGLOAYHOLE, Goodbye, and Your Black Friend, and contributer at the Nib.

In DAYGLOAYHOLE 2 Ben is a cockroach that even is guts can’t love. Social and political commentary mixed with punk nonsense and gore drawn in vibrant florescent colors.

Jason Lutes

Jason Lutes was born in New Jersey in 1967 and grew up reading American superhero and Western comics. In the late 1970s he discovered Heavy Metal magazine and the tabletop role-playing game Dungeons & Dragons, both of which proved major influences on his creative development. Lutes graduated from the Rhode Island School of Design with a BFA in illustration, and in 1993 he began drawing a weekly comics page called Jar of Fools for Seattle’s The Stranger. Lutes lives in Vermont with his partner and two children, where he teaches comics at the Center for Cartoon Studies.

Devastatingly relevant and beautifully told, Berlin is one of the great epics of the comics medium, created over the past two decades by Jason Lutes. Berlin is an intricate look at the fall of the Weimar Republic through the eyes of its citizens, zeroing in on the street level to demonstrate the slow rise of fascism and extremism.

Benji Nate

Benji Nate is a Puerto Rico born cartoonist and high school drop out living in the States. Her works include Catboy, Lorna, Ghoulfriend, and other things.

Her most recent venture is co-editing North America’s greatest, best selling, and most popular comics periodical, Good Boy! Magazine which is debuting at this year’s SPX

Carolyn Nowak

Carolyn Nowak graduated from the University of Michigan’s School of Art and Design in 2011. She lives in Ann Arbor.

In addition to her acclaimed mini-comics, Nowak has drawn twelve issues of Lumberjanes and is preparing a Buffy the Vampire Slayer middle-grade book, New School Nightmare.

At SPX 2018, Nowak and Top Shelf Productions compile the Ignatz-winning “Radishes” and “Diana’s Electric Tongue,” along with several other stories old and new, in her full-color debut collection, Girl Town.

Carol Tyler

Carol Tyler emerged as a distinctive voice from the underground comics scene of the 1980s, with work featured in Weirdo, Wimmen’s Comix, and Twisted Sisters. Her long form works include the autobiographical Late Bloomer (2005) and Soldier’s Heart (2012), and her books have been nominated for various awards, including multiple Ignatz Awards, an Eisner Award, and the LA Times Book Prize. Tyler received the 2016 Cartoonist Studio Prize from the Slate Book Review. Her most recent book, Fab4 Mania, chronicles her teenaged obsession with The Beatles in a facsimile of her 1965 journal.

Nate Powell

Nate Powell is a New York Times best-selling graphic novelist born in Little Rock, Arkansas in 1978. He began self-publishing at age 14, and graduated from School of Visual Arts in 2000.

His work includes March, the graphic novel autobiography of congressman and civil rights icon John Lewis; You Don’t Say, Any Empire, Swallow Me Whole, The Silence of Our Friends, The Year of the Beasts, and Rick Riordan’s The Lost Hero. Powell is the first and only cartoonist ever to win the National Book Award.

His work has also received a Robert F. Kennedy Book Award, three Eisner Awards, two Ignatz Awards, two Harvey Awards, the Michael L. Printz Award, a Coretta Scott King Author Award, four YALSA Great Graphic Novels For Teens selections, the Walter Dean Myers Award, and has twice been a finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize.

Powell’s newest book is the demon-haunted Arkansas fairytale Come Again (Top Shelf Productions, 2018).