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

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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