🎉📚 We’re thrilled to share that not one, not two, but FOUR Sprocket artists made The New York Public Library’s @nypl Top Ten Graphic Novels of 2025! 📚🎉
✨ THE CONFESSIONAL by Paige Hender @paigudoodle ✨ TALKING TO MY FATHER’S GHOST by Alex Krokus @alexkrokus ✨ BLACK ARMS TO HOLD YOU UP by Ben Passmore @daygloayhole ✨ SIMPLICITY by Mattie Lubchanski @mattielubchansky
We couldn’t be prouder of these incredible creators, each bringing bold, heartfelt, and fiercely original storytelling to the world of comics.
Massive congrats to Paige, Alex, Ben, and Mattie, and endless thanks to everyone reading, sharing, and championing indie comics! 💫
🚨Announcement! Due to tariffs and inflation (boo 👎💸), we have to raise prices on our stickers, pins, and patches starting Monday, Oct 13th:
✨ Stickers: from $3 → $3.99 ✨ Pins & patches: from $10 → $12
These next few days are your last chance to get them at the old prices. Stock up on your favs before the change kicks in! 🐐💥
Here are a handful of stickers, pins, and patches for our wonderful collection!! 🔥 What are your go-to placements? Jackets? Water bottles? Backpacks? Or do they live beautifully untouched on your desk?? 👀 Show us your favorite spots!
As always, thanks for your support and helping us keep making cool stuff. 💖
🎃 Sprocket’s Halloween Highlight Day 6: DONE WITH DEMONS by Dora Grents @doragrents 👻
What happens when the mayor of Hell ends up in a grandma’s oven? Absolute chaos… and maybe even a little heartwarming mischief. 🧁 😈
Boris, recently dethroned from Hell, finds himself living with Granny and her tiny dog, Son, where baking biscuits and prank-calling become his new daily routine. But in time, Boris will have to face a dire choice: return to claim his throne in Hell, or stay and call this new place home.
Hellish laughs guaranteed. 🔥👵🐶 Get your copy today!
And don’t miss the photos of Dora getting spooky at the end! Halloween isn’t as big in Europe, but she still makes it happen in style. 👻✨
🥐👻 Sprocket’s Halloween Highlight Day 5: BOTTOM’S UP! by Barbara Benas @illomati 🎃
Equal parts recipe blog and comic book, this surrealist tale whisks together sardonic humor, existential dread, and a pinch of gig economy camaraderie. 🧀
Meet Suzette: an over-kneaded and over-proofed pastry chef running a cooking blog and doing her best to get herself a juicy new job opportunity. Her secret weapon? ✨ Interview tiramisu ✨ a dessert so good it just might change her life. But as she scrambles across the city for the perfect ingredients, she can’t shake the creeping feeling that something is about to go very, very wrong.
A comic best served with dread. 🥀🍴 Pick up your copy of BOTTOM’S UP! today!!
We’re conjuring up some serious seasonal vibes with WITCH HAZEL: VARIETY HOUR by Colton Fox @coltonthefox & Beige Blum @icedtaho 🪄🧹your perfect midweek treat for a little magic, mischief, and mayhem!
PLUS… it’s time for our Draw This in Your Style Challenge!🎨 Show us your twist on the Witch Hazel magic and make sure to tag all of us so we can see your entries. We’ll be sharing entries on our stories as we see them throughout October. 🕷️
The winner will be revealed November 5th, so get those brushes, pencils, tablets, or whatever you’ve got, and show us your magical style!
Get your copy of WITCH HAZEL: VARIETY HOUR today!! ✨
🏆 First a BIG congrats to Lonnie for Putty Pygmalion winning the 2025 LAMBDA Literary Award @lambdaliterary for LGBTQ+ Comics! 🌈
💀 Now for Sprocket’s Halloween Highlight Day 3: PUTTY PYGMALION by Lonnie Garcia @sixgills 💔
A twisted story perfect for spooky season. 👻
Derryl, a lonely radish, decides to take love into his own hands, literally 👀, by sculpting a boyfriend out of a defunct and now illegal children`s product. But when his creation, Peter, springs to life, what starts as a dream quickly curdles into something darker. 😨
Longing turns to control, and affection to obsession, as Peter begins to question what he’s really made for, and who gets to decide. 😮
A haunting queer twist on the Pygmalion myth, brought to life through Lonnie Garcia’s lush, multimedia art. 💘 So make sure to get your copy of PUTTY PYGMALION!
Swipe all the way through to see Lonnie rocking a Halloween costume! 👻
🚨✨News from the Department of Meaningless Distinctions 🤪 Antifa has officially been labeled a “domestic terrorist organization.” 🙃🤦
Which means… now is a perfect time to brush up on the government’s latest TOTALLY REAL threat with ANTIFA SUPER SOLDIER COOKBOOK by Mattie Lubchansky @mattielubchansky 🕶️💥
🎙️ And while you’re at it, check out Mattie’s recent interview on The Final Straw Radio Podcast @thefinalstrawradio where they talk about her history, ambitions, and the role of art in organizing and living our politics in the Real World. And also her new book SIMPLICITY out from Pantheon Graphic Library. 📖 � 👉head here for the podcast: https://thefinalstrawradio.noblogs.org/post/2025/08/03/simplicity-with-mattie-lubchansky/
🔥 Last night was one for the books, and the decks! Yesterday, Archie @babywrist celebrated the release of SWEATGASM at Twin Cities Leather @twincitiesleather with a part game night/part sexy mingling and it got spicy!! 🥵♥️
Huge thanks to everyone who came out, played the cards, and made the night such a blast. And to Twin Cities Leather @twincitiesleather for hosting it!! The photos barely capture the laughter, flirting, and amazing time everyone had! 😏🎉
Couldn’t make it? Don’t worry! The decks are out in the wild now, ready to spice up your own party, date night, or wherever you’re brave enough to bust it out. 😉
🎃 Sprocket’s Halloween Highlight Day 2: THE NIGHT NEVER ENDS by Steve Thueson @steve_thueson 👻
What’s scarier than turning 30? Accidentally catching the attention of a killer cult. 😱
On the Friday before Kate’s 30th birthday, she convinces her friends to go back to her hometown to celebrate and relive their punk adolescence with one last séance in an abandoned house. But when a scream cuts through the night, their nostalgia trip turns into a bloody fight for survival. 🌑🩸
Can they find a way to get out of the suburbs alive? 🌙🔪 Pick up a copy of THE NIGHT NEVER ENDS and find out!
