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Silver Sprocket

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

Overview
Silver Sprocket is an anti-professional art crew, comic and zine publisher, record label, and "all-around raging dumpster fire." 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." Silver Sprocket is known for publishing comics about punk culture, mental illness, queer lives, and people of color. In 2021, Ari Yarwood was hired as Silver Sprocket's first managing editor. In early 2025, financial burdens became unmanagable, leading to the somewhat sudden layoff of three employees as well as friction on social media. == Musicians ==
Musicians
The following musicians have released albums under the Silver Sprocket label: • Andrew Jackson JihadAshtrayBig D and the Kids TableBlackbird RaumBlatzBobby Joe Ebola and the Children MacNuggitsFilthLarry and His FlaskPainThe PhenomenautsThe PillowfightsRiver City RebelsShang-A-LangVic Ruggiero Additionally, the label has released the following compilation albums: • Rude Remix Revolution (2009) == Cartoonists ==
Cartoonists
• Eddy Atoms • Caroline CashMitch Clem • Benji Nate • Ben Passmore (Your Black Friend, 2018) • Liz Suburbia • Sam Szabo • Jenn Woodall == References ==
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