Greetings Ghouls!! 👻 Sprocket’s Halloween Highlights are here! 🎃 At Sprocket HQ, it’s Halloween all year long, but now that it's October 1st it’s time to go all out. 😈 All month long we’ll be spotlighting some of our favorite creepy, kooky, eerie, and queer-y titles to get you in the spirit.📚

Sneak peek part 2 of ELECTRIC COWBOY by ansel kite (anselkite.com) !! 🔥 We return with more questions than answers, and you’ll just have to read the rest yourself to find out. 🤫. 💥 Pre-order now to score your copy, plus a FREE sticker! #silversprocket #comicscommunity #indiecomics #electriccowboy

Belle & Sebastian are back on tour!! 😆 And it got us thinking of Mitch Clem, creator of NOTHING NICE TO SAY, MY STUPID LIFE, TURNSTILE COMIX, and the AS YOU WERE anthologies which were what first pulled us into publishing comics! 💥

✨WITCH HAZEL WEDNESDAY ✨ 🌏 WITCH HAZEL:VARIETY HOUR by Colton Fox @coltonthefox.bsky.social & Beige Blum @icedtaho.bsky.social is out making magic from all over the world!! Huge thanks to everyone who’s been sharing their photos, making reviews, tagging us, and showing off this beautiful book. 📚

GASP! Another peek at ELECTRIC COWBOY by ansel kite @anselkite!! 👀🤯 Featuring a little scene with Caroline, and someone new?🫢 This is just the beginning, and we can’t wait to show you more. Stay tuned for part 2 next week!✨ Pre-order now and get your hands on the FREE bonus sticker!💥

Check out our new window display!! 🖼️ Exhibit A: Skeleton with Good Taste Arranged by Josh PM Frees A mixed-media installation of comics, and cultural treasures. Appreciated by the discerning few… soon to be beloved by the masses. ✨🐐 Currently in the right-hand window of Sprocket HQ, San Francisco😎

🧱✨SPX 2025 Wrap Up! Huge thanks to everyone who stopped by, Josh PM Frees, Raven & Asphen from Fantom Comics, Paige Hender, and Sarah Duyer loved meeting you all 💖 Highlights: Paige reading THE CONFESSIONAL 📖🔥, the “Vampires & Power Exchange” panel 🧛✨, & Leo Fox’s BOY ISLAND winning the Ignatz! 🎉

Archie Bongiovanni’s @babywrist.bsky.social SWEATGASM is out today!!! 🎉 📸 These beautiful people were just test subjects, your turn next😏🔥Due to international shipping chaos🫠mail-orders arrive a week late. Thanks for your patience, and bonus “Pee on a Friend” are stickers included in your order! ✨

I know this is supposed to be something else but all I could think of when I saw that first card is how pee is great for Portuguese manowar stings and it's not uncommon to see guys peeing on their friend who got stung at the beach Friends pee on friends jellyfish stings

ELECTRIC COWBOY stickers are here!⚡ Ansel Kite’s surreal sci-fi comic about love and memory comes with a limited edition sticker, free with every direct pre-order!! 🌟 Meet the machine behind the sticker in these sneak peek panels! 👀 Grab your copy + this limited edition sticker while supplies last 🚀

BOY ISLAND by Leo Fox won the 2025 Ignatz Award for Outstanding Story at SPX! 🧱 Huge congratulations to Leo Fox and all the brilliant artists who won this year, and a shoutout to all the incredible nominees whose work keeps pushing comics forward. 💖📚

🚨 EVERYTHING SUCKS: KINGS OF NOTHING by @michaelsweater.bsky.social has a lovely excerpt on the Publisher’s Weekly website!🚨 This punk-fueled and hilarious comic follows everyone’s favorite misfits with zero ambition and maximum chaos.🤘 Check out the full 10 PAGE EXCERPT at pw-ne.ws/1003df 😎

✨WITCH HAZEL WEDNESDAY ✨ Today is all about NOOT!!! 💖 Meet Hazel’s pet Noot: cute, weird, and ready for trouble. 😎 Catch more Noot antics, and plenty of witchy chaos, in Witch Hazel: Variety Hour by Colton Fox @coltonthefox.bsky.social & Beige Blum @icedtaho.bsky.social!! Get your copy today! 📚

✨A special SWEATGASM sticker just dropped! ✨ SWEATGASM by Archie Bongiovanni’s @babywrist spicy new card game now has an equally spicy sticker! And the best part? This sticker is FREE with your pre-order of SWEATGASM from the Sprocket online shop! 😏🔥 Snag your copy today! 💥

💖 We will be at SPX on Sept 13 + 14, at table W68-71 with Paige Hender! 💖 🔥 Debut copies of SWEATGASM by Archie Bongiovanni and ELECTRIC COWBOY by ansel kite will be available at our table! 📚 Check out some of our favorite people at SPX too! 🗳️ Don’t forget to vote for the Ignatz Awards!!

💫ELECTRIC COWBOY by ansel kite 💫 A surreal, emotional sci-fi story of androids, memory, and love. Your next favorite comic releases 8/15/25! 💥 Official cover has arrived with sneak peeks of the interiors with the flo-pink glow. 👀 ⚡⚡Pre-order now to get an exclusive foil sticker.⚡⚡

🌟SWEATGASM by Archie Bongiovanni @babywrist.bsky.social in the wild at People's Pride and Autonomous Zine Fest!! 🌟 SWEATGASM is all about getting you and your party laughing, blushing, and closer together. 💦🔥 Make sure to follow Archie and pre-order your copy now to lock it in before release! 🎇

✨WITCH HAZEL WEDNESDAY ✨ 🧙💫 Here to break some rules and maybe swipe a snack from your local soulless grocery chain. (fictionally, of course…👀) 📚 Check out Colton Fox & Beige Blum’s self published Witch Hazel comics and our brand new Witch Hazel: Variety Hour! Available now!

✨ Big shoutout to @sydhey.bsky.social Syd Madia’s HERO CAVE, which received a glowing review from the Comics Beat!🔥 We’re so stoked everyone is enjoying it as much as we are!! 💖 Now’s the time to get your copy of HERO CAVE! 💀📚

💥Ben Passmore's @benpassmore.bsky.social brand-new book with Pantheon Books ARMS TO HOLD YOU UP: A HISTORY OF BLACK RESISTANCE, drops 10/7/2025! Follow Ben for event updates and ways to support his work! 💖 Don’t sleep on the incredible collection of Ben’s work we’ve got at Silver Sprocket too!! 📖🔥

🌾✨Our very own Jenn Woodall @funeralbeat.bsky.social is a special guest at the Prairie Comics Festival!! ✨ For more details: prairiecomics.com We’ve got a whole collection of Jenn's amazing creations available through our shop! 💖 Go meet Jenn, snag some faves, and celebrate indie comics!! 👀💎

⚡ELECTRIC COWBOY by ansel kite (anselkite.com) launches into the cosmos 10/15/2025!⚡ 💫 Set against the backdrop of a surreal desert planet, this intimate sci-fi story explores the limits of identity, memory, and love. 💫 ✨ Pre-order now to get a FREE foil sticker! ✨

🐺✨CRY WOLF GIRL by Ariel Slamet Ries @arielries.bsky.social is officially out in the world today!! 🎉📚 Snag your copy online, at your favorite comic shop, or straight from our store, and tag us with your copy! 👀 #silversprocket #smallpresscomics #crywolfgirl #graphicnovel #comicscommunity

ACID NUN creator Corinne Halbert's short horror film “Murder in the Park”, co-written+directed by Rives Elliot, is showing at SCUMDANCE Film Festival in San Fran at The Lost Church on Sept 27th! 🌙🍿 🎥 Trailer: youtu.be/n9XPz8vpA0Q?... Corinne will be at SPX, PCX, and NYCC! 📚

💞 We’re hosting TWO events at Silver Sprocket HQ for San Francisco Zine Fest! 🗓️Sat, Aug 23 @ 6 - 7:30pm Thinking Captions Zine Reading 🗓️ Sun, Aug 31 @ 7 - 9:30pm SFZF After Party! 🥳 For more info go to sfzinefest.org or www.silversprocket.net/events/in-st...

💋 SWEATGASM by Archie Bongiovanni @babywrist drops 9/17/2025! 🥵A sultry, queer, truth-or-dare adult card game perfect for two players or a group of friends! 220 wildly playful cards, cheeky pleasures, and zero shame. Co-published by Silver Sprocket and Plus One Exp @plusoneexp. 🔥 Pre-order now! 🔥

✨PUTTY PYGMALION by Lonnie Garcia @sixgills is a finalist in the 37th Annual Lambda Literary Awards @lambdaliterary for LGBTQ+ Comics! 🌈✨ The Lammys celebrate the best in LGBTQ+ literature, and we’re honored to see Lonnie’s unforgettable book among them. Congrats, Lonnie!!! 🏆💖

I had a morbidly good time writing a review of Syd Madia's Hero Cave, a dark fantasy comic recently published by @silversprocket.net. Hero Cave is a smart and relatable comedy about monsters, the daily grind, and the subversive pleasures of becoming ungovernable. 💀 www.comicsbeat.com/graphic-nove...

🥇SUNFLOWERS by Keezy Young @keezyyoung has been honored with the Graphic Medicine Award for Best Short-Form Comic! 🏆 We couldn’t be prouder of Keezy’s work, and excited for their new upcoming book HELLO SUNSHINE with Little Brown Ink releasing 9/23! 🌞 Mark your calendars and check it out!

“The blood of these whores is killing me” 😩🩸 Paige Hender @paigudoodle gives us another amazing recreation, this time of Blood for Dracula, 🧛 and a drop-dead gorgeous sticker sheet to sink our teeth into.🕯️ Paige will also be a special guest at SPX this year, so make sure to drop by and say hi!! 👋

New Comic SUPERCRUSH!!! that I'm going to write as a little side project. I'll be posting it here on this thread as I work on it. About an android catboy who fucks and murders. CW for NSFW and Violence

did you know that to celebrate the beautiful reprinting of CRY WOLF GIRL that I made two exclusive riso prints??? here's one of them--final art vs. final print. I love how ethereal the colours turned out in the riso. preorder cry wolf girl here: store.silversprocket.net/products/cry...

🔪 BRING ME THE HEAD OF SUSAN LOMOND by Connor B (@cnr_b) 🔪 🎓A queer enemies-to-something-more story about high school rivalry and repeated assassination attempts. This book is a must-read! 🎥 Check out Connor’s rad interview with Comix Experience for their Book of the Month event, still on YouTube!

✨WITCH HAZEL WEDNESDAY✨ FOWL PLAY 🕊️ This week, we’re dropping: 🐦A full-page comic from Witch Hazel Variety Hour 🔥 A peek at PRE-ORDER BONUS POSTER 🌟 And a look at the foil cover in all its splendor! Witch Hazel Variety Hour hits shelves in just 2 weeks! Created by @coltonthefox & @icedtaho

🐺 CRY WOLF GIRL by Ariel Slamet Ries @arielries is coming 8/27 🐾 🌙 To celebrate, we have EXCLUSIVE riso prints available in the shop and online! ✨ The artwork, like everything else in the book, is absolutely stunning.This is one print you won’t want to miss. Grab one while they last! ✨

LOUD & SMART & IN COLOR by Alex Krokus @alexkrokus has new vinyl stickers of our favorite pages!! 💥 Grab them now in-store or online! ✨ Also, a special shout-out to Alex’s upcoming book, TALKING TO MY FATHER’S GHOST, coming out 8/5 through Chronicle Books @chroniclebooks! 👻🖤

📚🎉 Special shout out to and throw back to PUTTY PYGMALION by Lonnie Garcia @sixgills for being named of New York Public Library’s Best 50 Graphic Novels for Adults! 🏆✨ We’re so happy to see this story getting the love it deserves. 💖 #puttypygmalion #silversprocket #nypl #indiecomics #librarypicks

🎉 Congrats to @mattielubchansky.com on the release of their new book SIMPLICITY with Pantheon! 📘 Their work is absolutely amazing and we are so happy to have published Mattie’s debut graphic novel, THE ANTIFA SUPERSOLDIER COOKBOOK! 💥 Check out all their books and show support for Mattie Lubchansky!!

✨WITCH HAZEL WEDNESDAY✨ @coltonthefox.bsky.social & @icedtaho.bsky.social breakdown how they made the hit indie comic series Witch Hazel, from self publishing to Silver Sprocket! ❤️🔥 Catch the full video on our YT! 🎦 Follow for more content every week! 🧹 Witch Hazel in stores 8/20; less than a month!

Starting in August, new releases like Cry Wolf Girl 🐺 & Witch Hazel: Variety Hour 🧙 will be available via Universal Distribution in Canada and soon the USA! 🇨🇦🇺🇸 📚We’re also working on rolling out more of our back catalog every month 💫Our books will also still be available from Lunar, SCB & Ingram!

😈 BINGO TIME AT SPROCKET HQ 😈 Stop by the Silver Sprocket shop and grab a DONE WITH DEMONS bingo card! Hunt all the demons lurking around the store and score a FREE sticker sheet by Dora Grents 🎯✨ Have fun and tag yourself with any of the demons you find! 👹 Stop by and win some rad stuff!! 💥

FOUR of our titles are nominated for big awards at SDCC! 🏆 🌟 Hourglass by @birby.bsky.social 🌟 Abortion Pill Zine by @isabellarotman.bsky.social, @marniegalloway.bsky.social & @sagecoffey.bsky.social 🌟 PeePee PooPoo #1 by @cashbrowns.bsky.social 🌟 Sunflowers by @keezyyoung.bsky.social

✨WITCH HAZEL WEDNESDAY✨ NOT ONES! A bootleg @coltonthefox.bsky.social & @icedtaho.bsky.social interview for Witch Hazel Variety Hour! 🌶️ Did they suffer? 🌶️ Did they overshare? 🌶️ Did they put zero effort into the bald cap? ✅Yes to all three. Full video on our YT!🎦 More Witch Hazel content every week!

NEW RELEASE COMING SOON💥 Hero Cave by @sydhey.bsky.social drops July 30th! 💀🦇🌀 Skeleton is stuck in the endless cycle of death and resurrection and it's starting to wear thin. After a poor performance review, the cracks and questions creep in: is there more to being dead than this? 💀🐀 Pre-order now!

San Diego Comic Con! 🎉 Visit us at booth #1718 with @michaelsweater.bsky.social and @eddybone.bsky.social! And @xjosuecruz.bsky.social for a Sunday signing! ✨ With limited advanced copies for the WORLD PREMIERE of Everything Sucks: Kings of Nothing, Hero Cave, Witch Hazel, and Cry Wolf Girl!! 🎉

What’s up SDCC 😛

😳 @cosmicmonkeycomics.bsky.social in Portland has a display of 50+ Sprocket comics 😭💖

🚨 Everything Sucks: King of Nothing by @michaelsweater.bsky.social drops JULY 23RD! 🚨 💥 5" x 7" RISO PRINTS with every pre-order - don't sleep on it! 👑💥 💀✨ Skate punks, chaotic critters, and comic lovers: this one’s for you. #silversprocket #indiecomics #risoprint

“Cry Wolf Girl” by Ariel Slamet Ries @arielries.bsky.social Returns in Deluxe Hardcover from Silver Sprocket August 27, 2025