Bookstore and art space
in Bay View, Milwaukee

Zines, prints, small press
Books and comics for kids and adults

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OPEN EVERY. SINGLE. DAY.
Mon-Wed 11-5 | Thu-Fri 11-6 | Sat 10-6 | Sun 10-5
Open late for events and most Thursdays for Book Club

Shop the Lion's Tooth store on Bookshop.org or our online selection
"Look up the term 'Milwaukee gem' in a dictionary and you’ll find an impeccably illustrated picture of Lion's Tooth."
Matt Wild, Milwaukee Record

2025 Book Clubs: Comix, Nonfiction, Music and Wine
Always on Thursdays | 6-8PM
​All free and open to the public

Join us in our 2025 Book Clubs 💥🎶🍷
Come hang out at the shop one Thursday a month for each Book Club, always 6-8PM, all free and open to the public. No registration necessary, just show up!

Dandelion Comics Residency
Presented by Lion’s Tooth in partnership with BearBear and MILK Comic Fest
Mentorship by Quinn Blackshere and Hannah Hallman

The Dandelion Comics Residency is a juried program for cartoonists based on the Greater Milwaukee area. Our goal is to support the local comics community while promoting work produced here to well-respected professionals active in the industry today.
Applications for the 2026 cycle of the Dandelion Comics Residency are now closed.
The 2026 Artist-in-Residence will be announced on December 8, 2025

Friday November 7, 2025 | 5:30PM
2025 Dandelion Comics Residency Official Release Party
Live Comics Reading by our 2025 Artist-In-Residence Moritz Junker

​Come support 2025 Lion's Tooth artist-in-residence Moritz Junker as he releases the comic produced during this year's Dandelion Residency. This will be a live comics reading (with sound effects!). Free and open to the public.
Click for e-gift cards and we also have physical gift cards at the store. Both may be redeemed online or at the shop in Bay View

LION'S TOOTH COMICS SCHOOL
Summer sessions for kids and teens (ages 8-17)

Lion's Tooth Comics School is a fundraising effort to keep our bookstore afloat and help fund comics-related programming. 2025 sessions are done but you can get the anthologies produced by Milwaukee kids and teens this summer, available in our online store.
We have bumper stickers!!! Extremely cute too, if we may say so.
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When you buy Lion’s Tooth swag you are contributing to our continuous fundraising effort to keep our mission-driven shop open and enhance our programming and community-building. Every little bit counts, get some cool stuff now!

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