About

Brand new bookstore in Milwaukee
Small press and graphic novels
Pickup only | Café coming soon

Lion's Tooth is a new bookstore in the beautiful Bay View neighborhood in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. We are open now for pickup only, but will include a small café/bar when the end of the world is over. You can read more about our newly-found location here.

Since January 2020 we've been running a subscription program that includes new releases and work by featured artists. This (other) great article on the Milwaukee Record has more information about this.

Our goal is to provide Milwaukee with a cultural hub and gathering place for both children and adults. Join our community by subscribing to our monthly care packages and shopping in our online store. Follow us on Instagram, Twitter and Facebook.

Shelly McClone-Carriere is one of the founders of the Riverwest Co-op. She was a board member from 2002-2012, manager from 2001-2018 and bookkeeper since 2003. In 2018 Shelly joined Highland Community School, where she is currently the School Café coordinator, working with middle schoolers to develop skills that include planning the menu, budgeting and preparing meals for students, teachers and family members. Shelly's passion for books and community is at the heart of what Lion's Tooth stands for.

Cris Siqueira is a Brazilian-born American citizen with deep Milwaukee roots. In the 1990s and early 2000s she worked as a journalist writing about alternative comics and owned a bookstore specialized in graphic novels in São Paulo. In 1997 Cris interviewed over 20 of the most important American cartoonists and published an award-winning compilation that introduced their work to Brazilian readers. For the last few years she has been revisiting her favorite artists – you can read these interviews here.

The name Lion's Tooth is a reference to dandelions, those stubborn masters of survival (from the French dent-de-lion). We want the books and art we love to thrive and multiply like they do. The dandelion regenerates even when you cut off the yellow flower, just like bookstores, which have survived the "retail apocalypse" brought by Beelzebezos and continue to spread love across the land.