Silver Sprocket Explained

Silver Sprocket
Status:Active
Founded:2007
Founder:Avi Ehrlich
Country:United States
Headquarters:San Francisco
Keypeople:Avi Ehrlich
Mitch Clem
Amanda Kirk
Liz Suburbia
Ben Passmore
Michael Sweater
Benji Nate
Publications:Comics
Website:silversprocket.net

Silver Sprocket is a San Francisco-based indie comics publisher and independent record label, founded in 2007 by Avi Ehrlich of Springman Records.[1] In addition to publishing records and comics, Silver Sprocket also supports a range of independent musicians and other community-based initiatives.[2]

Overview

Silver Sprocket is an anti-professional art crew, comic and zine publisher, record label, and "all-around raging dumpster fire."[3] Ehrlich told The Comics Journal that the community-based model of the company is founded in anarchist politics: "It’s very shaped by anarchist world views and specifically the Bay Area punk rock scene which was a very hippieish community of mutual aid and helping each other out and not waiting for permission from some corporation to exist." Comics critics have noted the publisher's high production values differentiates Silver Sprocket from other zine publishers. "Its political values may be DIY and anti-establishment, but its attention to production values and design sets it apart from traditional, home-made zines."[4] Silver Sprocket is known for publishing comics about punk culture, mental illness, queer lives, and people of color.

Silver Sprocket opened their first retail location in December 2017 at 1685 Haight St, San Francisco.[5] In 2021, Ari Yarwood was hired as Silver Sprocket's first managing editor.[6]

Musicians

The following musicians have released albums under the Silver Sprocket label:

Additionally, the label has released the following compilation albums:

Cartoonists

External links

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Alex . Dueben . 2020-03-10 . "I Want To See What Else We Can Get Away With": An Interview with Avi Ehrlich . 2022-03-01 . The Comics Journal . en-US.
  2. Web site: 2017-04-26 . Silver Sprocket's Avi Ehrlich Talks Business of Small Press and Art Theft on Redbubble . 2022-03-01 . WWAC . en-US.
  3. Web site: Silver Sprocket. 21 July 2018.
  4. Web site: Clough . Rob . 2021-01-25 . None More Punk: The Latest From Silver Sprocket . 2022-03-01 . Solrad . en-US.
  5. Web site: Silver Sprocket Instagram. https://ghostarchive.org/iarchive/s/instagram/BcN-AoPh3Eu . 2021-12-26 . registration. 2 December 2017.
  6. Web site: MacDonald . Heidi . 2021-06-24 . Syndicated Comics . 2022-03-01 . The Beat . en-US.
  7. News: Chute . Hillary . 2018-07-27 . Cartoonists Who Draw in Order to Be Heard . en-US . The New York Times . 2022-03-01 . 0362-4331.
  8. Web site: Johnston . Rich . 2021-05-25 . Good Boy Magazine #1 - Indie Comics Anthology From Silver Sprocket . 2022-03-01 . Bleeding Cool News And Rumors . en.
  9. Web site: Dueben . Alex . 2019-02-28 . Smash Pages Q&A: Liz Suburbia . 2022-03-12 . SMASH PAGES . en-US.
  10. Web site: Ramm . Meggie . Eddy Atoms . 2022-09-27 . Silver Sprocket . en-US.
  11. Web site: Jenn Woodall . 2022-11-09 . Silver Sprocket . en-US.
  12. Web site: Caroline Cash . 2022-11-09 . Silver Sprocket . en-US.
  13. Web site: Sam Szabo . 2024-02-10 . Silver Sprocket . en-US.

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