Since the fall of 2019, Milwaukee has been lucky enough to be home to Lion’s Tooth, a small press subscription service that aims to spread the good word of books and graphic novels to adults, young adults, and kids alike. The brainchild of Shelly McClone-Carriere and Cris Siqueira, Lion’s Tooth is built around a simple premise: sign up for an adults or kids subscription (there are three age groups for kids), and receive a monthly care package featuring a new release book or graphic novel, something special from a featured graphic artist, a mini-zine, and other random goodies. We’re subscribers ourselves. It’s great!
Lion’s Tooth has been organizing terrific monthly pop-up book clubs at Sugar Maple (the next one is set for March 21), but McClone and Siqueira have plans for something bigger. Enter an Indiegogo campaign to raise funds for a future physical storefront.
“We are planning a bookstore café with a busy event calendar including story time, book clubs, art exhibits and music shows,” reads the Indiegogo campaign. “Lion’s Tooth will be a magical space for people of all ages. We want to become your favorite place!”
How can you help make this goal become a reality? By signing up for a subscription, of course. “The financial goal of this campaign is roughly the equivalent of 100 six-month adults subscriptions, including taxes and shipping,” reads the Indiegogo campaign. So sign up now! Subscriptions range from a $25 single kids care package to a $320 one-year adults subscription.
Read our October 2019 article about Lion’s Tooth HERE. Read Siqueira’s excellent “20 Years Later” columns—in which she catches up with cartoonists and publishers she first interviewed roughly 20 years ago—HERE.
Lion’s Tooth Indiegogo from Cris Siqueira on Vimeo.