Silver Sprocket signs with PGW/Ingram for Distribution, Expands Publishing Team, Announces Slate of 2026 Cartoonists, Launches Membership Campaign, and Co-Presents the San Francisco Queer Comics Festival: Pride In Panels
Illustration by Hyena Hell
This has been a winter of hard fortification and new alliances.
New Distribution:
We are delighted to announce that Silver Sprocket’s comics and graphic novels will now be distributed to the book trade by Publishers Group West/Ingram, a local Bay Area team we found to be refreshingly warm and indie-savvy, with reach into all the weirdest bookstores, libraries, and random places that sell zines for some reason. And they happen to have the fewest tangles with gigantic megacorps, which is… nice.
Silver Sprocket remains fully independent, and is still distributed to comic shops through Lunar and Universal, alongside all of our existing direct, indirect, indie, anarchistic channels, etcetera.
Membership Drive:
We are now one month in and halfway to our goal with our new membership drive for the Silver Sprocket physical space with just over 200 friends contributing monthly to maintain a sustainable indie-comics focused storefront and resource space at 1018 Valencia St, San Francisco, CA. The first batch of membership cards are about to get printed and will be ready for your hand-drawn portraits next month along with member pins and stickers. Until then, check out our calendar of upcoming events and fresh new indie comics every week at the shop.
Consider joining up if you haven’t already, as we unlock more resources and opportunities to strengthen and enable the local DIY indie comics community. We love all the local cartoonists already using our scanners and staplers (come in and ask about our zine making resources!) and let’s get that Risograph printer!
San Francisco Queer Comics Fest: Pride In Panels
We’re helping organize Pride In Panels: The San Francisco Queer Comics Fest on Feb 15th, 2026, with the SF Public Library and over 100 exhibitors, workshops, panels, and happenings around town. All activities are 100% free for all attendees and participants
More information: prideinpanels.org
Silver Sprocket will be exhibiting at numerous comics festivals in 2026 including:
- Pride In Panels in San Francisco, CA: Feb 15
- ComicsPro in Glendale, CA: Feb 19-21
- Montreal Comic Arts Festival: May 14-17
- Toronto Comic Arts Festival: June 6-7
- American Library Association Conference in Chicago: June 25-29
- San Diego ComicCon: July 22-26
- Small Press Expo in Bethesda, MD: Sept 13-14
We’re also thrilled to BAA about two new members of the Silver Sprocket publishing team:
Sebastian Ramos: Hola! Sebastian Ramos, here in the Bay Area! I’m thrilled to be joining Lina and the team at Silver Sprocket after being a longtime fan of their work. I have a background in libraries and the arts, and began my career in publishing a decade ago at Image Comics, where I served as the Book Market and Library Sales Manager. In my spare time, I crochet, read, and take absurdly long walks.
Lina De La Cruz: Hello! I’m currently based in Chicago, and have been working with Silver Sprocket since 2021 as part of Full Bleed Rights in foreign licensing. I’m now working with Sprocket in the publishing department alongside Sebastian.
Sebastian and Lina will be working alongside Josh and Sol holding down the Sprocket storefront in the sunny San Francisco, CA Mission District, under the tutelage of founder and publisher Avi Ehrlich.
2026 is just getting started
We couldn’t be more proud to have you here with us.
With gratitude,
The Silver Sprocket Team
Illustration by Travis Rommereim
