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The Windy City looms large in Lion’s Tooth’s “Chicago Boys” author event

May 5, 2022

Authors and lifelong friends Martin Billheimer and Theodore C. Van Alst Jr. write very different books, but the Windy City looms large in each of their works.Beyond having "Chicago" in its title, Billheimer...

Lion’s Tooth co-owner Cris Siqueira remembers cartoonist Richard Sala

Cris Siqueira

May 7, 2021

Richard Sala's influence is everywhere, in my opinion more so than any alternative cartoonist of his generation. There seems to be an entire new wave of artists touched by his style. Browse new graphic novel re...

Take a look inside Lion’s Tooth, which is open for appointments and limited walk-ins

Matt Wild

March 22, 2021

Four months after purchasing a storefront in Bay View—and roughly a year and a half after debuting as a subscription service—Lion's Tooth (2421 S. Kinnickinnic Ave., 414-455-3498) is finally open.Similar to...

Lion’s Tooth is opening a brick-and-mortar bookstore on Kinnickinnic Ave. in Bay View

Matt Wild

November 20, 2020

When we first talked to Shelly McClone-Carriere and Cris Siqueira in October 2019, the two Milwaukee women had just launched a small press and graphic novel subscription service called Lion's Tooth. The service...

Watch a Lion’s Tooth video tour of the MOWA comics exhibit

Cris Siqueira

September 14, 2020

Last month the Museum of Wisconsin Art launched an amazing exhibition about the history of comics in Wisconsin, with emphasis on the career of cartoonist and publisher Denis Kitchen, from his beginnings in the ...

Lion’s Tooth: How to make it to the other side of 2020 while selling books in Milwaukee

Cris Siqueira

July 30, 2020

By Cris Siqueira and Shelly McClone-Carriere of Lion's ToothIn mid-March, just days after the WHO declared COVID-19 a pandemic, we got a package in the mail filled with gorgeous handmade cards that said "Li...

Online storytimes, live drawing, and virtual studio visits to help you and your kids stay busy at home

Cris Siqueira

March 19, 2020

Our 20 Years Later series is on brief hiatus until the end of the world is over—or at least until things start looking up again. Please accept instead this brief collection of book and comics-related online hap...

Help Lion’s Tooth open a physical bookstore by subscribing today

Matt Wild

March 9, 2020

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 ...

20 Years Later: Lion’s Tooth co-owner Cris Siqueira in conversation with Eric Reynolds

Cris Siqueira

February 6, 2020

Eric Reynolds is one of the most well respected and loved figures in the world of alternative comics. He is loved by cartoonists, loved by fans, loved by booksellers, and loved by journalists like myself. When ...

20 Years Later: Lion’s Tooth co-owner Cris Siqueira in conversation with Peter Bagge

Cris Siqueira

January 9, 2020

Peter Bagge should be a household name. Sure, he's one of the most notorious underground cartoonists (you're welcome for the oxymoron), but he really should be indecently famous by now. The amazing (and tragica...

20 Years Later: Lion’s Tooth co-owner Cris Siqueira in conversation with Dame Darcy

Cris Siqueira

December 5, 2019

This is the second installment in a series of interviews with legendary cartoonists and publishers I first met in 1997. Back then I was a Brazilian journalist touring the U.S. with the not-so-subtle mission to ...

20 Years Later: Lion’s Tooth co-owner Cris Siqueira in conversation with Gilbert Hernandez and family

Cris Siqueira

October 24, 2019

In 2017, one day before getting married in Vegas (by the real Elvis, in case you're wondering), my then-future-husband Brock and I met legendary cartoonist Gilbert Hernandez, his wife Carol Kovinick Hernandez, ...

Lion’s Tooth debuts alt-comics subscription service, looks ahead to brick-and-mortar future

Matt Wild

October 17, 2019

Milwaukee has a long and storied history with alternative comic books. Local artists like Jim Mitchell and Denis Kitchen were influential figures in the underground comix boom of the 1960s and '70s. Events like...

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