Silver Sprocket Bicycle Club
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.
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Silver Sprocket Bicycle Club

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- Silver Sprocket
- Founded
- 2007.
- Headquarters
- San Francisco.
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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.
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• Name — Silver Sprocket • Status — Active • Founder — Avi Ehrlich • Country — United States • Headquarters — 1685 Haight Street San Francisco • Keypeople — Ari Yarwood • Publications — Comics, Records • Website — silversprocket.net
Overview
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." Comics critics have noted the publisher's high production values differentiates Silver Sprocket from other zine publishers. "Its political values may be DIY and anti-establishment, but its attention to production values and design sets it apart from traditional, home-made zines." Silver Sprocket is known for publishing comics about punk culture, mental illness, queer lives, and people of color. Silver Sprocket opened their first retail location in December 2017 at 1685 Haight Street, San Francisco. 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 Jihad • Ashtray • Big D and the Kids Table • Blackbird Raum • Blatz • Bobby Joe Ebola and the Children MacNuggits • Filth • Larry and His Flask • Pain • The Phenomenauts • The Pillowfights • River City Rebels • Shang-A-Lang • Vic Ruggiero Additionally, the label has released the following compilation albums: • Rude Remix Revolution (2009)
Cartoonists
Cartoonists
• Eddy Atoms • Caroline Cash • Mitch Clem • Benji Nate • Ben Passmore (Your Black Friend, 2018) • Liz Suburbia • Sam Szabo • Jenn Woodall
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The following works and productions are recorded by name or by count. Recorded as record label. Institutional cataloguing adds that silver Sprocket Bicycle Club was established or created in 2007. Situated in United States. It is also recorded that silver Sprocket Bicycle Club has its headquarters at San Francisco.
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- 1.Dueben, Alex. "I Want To See What Else We Can Get Away With": An Interview with Avi Ehrlich. The Comics Journal. 2020-03-10.
- 2.Silver Sprocket's Avi Ehrlich Talks Business of Small Press and Art Theft on Redbubble. WWAC. 2017-04-26.
- 3.Silver Sprocket.
- 4.Clough, Rob. None More Punk: The Latest From Silver Sprocket. Solrad. 2021-01-25.
- 5.Silver Sprocket Instagram.
- 6.MacDonald, Heidi. Syndicated Comics. The Beat. 2021-06-24.
- 7.Rabiroff, Zach. High debts, high rents and miscommunication: What happened to Silver Sprocket. 2025-07-01.
- 8.Ramm, Meggie. Eddy Atoms. Silver Sprocket.
- 9.Caroline Cash. Silver Sprocket.
- 10.Johnston, Rich. Good Boy Magazine #1 - Indie Comics Anthology From Silver Sprocket. Bleeding Cool News And Rumors. 2021-05-25.
- 11.Chute, Hillary. Cartoonists Who Draw in Order to Be Heard. The New York Times. 2018-07-27. 0362-4331.
- 12.Dueben, Alex. Smash Pages Q&A: Liz Suburbia. SMASH PAGES. 2019-02-28.
- 13.Sam Szabo. Silver Sprocket.
- 14.Jenn Woodall. Silver Sprocket.
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