Silver Sprocket

Mitch Clem Amanda Kirk Liz Suburbia Ben Passmore Michael Sweater 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] 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.

"[4] Silver Sprocket is known for publishing comics about punk culture, mental illness, queer lives, and people of color.