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NEWAVE! Got Boinged

There is a nice little writeup of the NEWAVE! Minicomics book by the esteemed Mark Frauenfelder on today’s edition of BoingBoing. Go read that thang. NEWAVE! is now in stock and ready to ship from Amazon. UPDATE: Some photos from the release party at the Fantagraphics Bookstore/Gallery. [...]

Art of Zines Show at Anno Domini Announced

Get on down to the glorious DTSJ (that’s Down Town San Jose, folks) for the South First Friday art walk this coming February 5th; and, do not fail to stop in at Anno Domini for their Art of Zines show. Wow Cool will be at a table there hawking our wares, too. All the details [...] [...]

Video preview of NEWAVE! The Underground Minicomics of the '80s Book

More previews and info on Fantagraphics site. Pre-order yours today! Newave!: The Underground Mini Comix of the 1980s on Amazon. [...]

Your New Coffee Table Friend no. 2: Mariscal Drawing Life

I have been an avid fan of Javier Mariscal’s art since first encountering his Garriris comics in Raw Magazine at the age of 12. When I got to visit Barcelona for the first time, apart from the buildings of Guadi and the museums of Picasso, Dalí and Miró, I was most excited to see what [...] [...]

Al Columbia's Pim & Francie New from Fantagraphics

As Orson Welles and Terry Gilliam have film adaptations of Don Quixote as their great incomplete masterworks; Al Columbia has Pim And Francie. A work over 15 years in the making, and never now likely to be ‘finished’, the pieces of it have been assembled as Pim & Francie: The Golden Bear Days (Fantagraphics Books, [...] [...]

Torgo targets the Sydney Opera House

.flickr-photo { border: solid 2px #000000; } .flickr-yourcomment { } .flickr-frame { text-align: left; padding: 3px; } .flickr-caption { font-size: 0.8em; margin-top: 0px; } Iron Man?, originally uploaded by mifblip. Found this great version of Torgo’s severed head on flickr pretty much randomly. It’s next to either Don Van Vliet (Captain Beefheart) or one of the Thompsons from Tintin. More [...] [...]

Holy Crap! Sam Henderson has a New Blog!!!

Go Flipping read this joint! You may have to scroll down a bit to fully engage with the wrongness, but it is the worth it. [...]

Mark Sunshine Relaunches Armored Baby Site

The multi-talented Mark Sunshine has finally re-launched his mighty Armored Baby site. The ten-year-old online art showcase has gone through many incarnations and this one has opted for a clean and concise one-window approach with connections to the whole host of web 2.0 services. There is much to click on and every little note, [...] [...]

Track Attack – New Simon Gane illustrated book

The latest book in the popular Gym Shorts series by Betty Hicks is illustrated by Mr. Simon Gane. It’s a bit of a departure from what we’re used to, but it’s all classic Simon. Go get Track Attack on Amazon. Simon has been teasing drawings from the book for the last few weeks on his [...] [...]

Go Look: Simon Gane resumes art blog

We don’t really need much of an excuse to post pictures of Serge Gainsbourg, but this is a pretty good one. Simon Gane, artist of Paris (SLG) and Vinyl Underground (Vertigo) and creator of Arnie has resumed updating his drawing blog. It is, as always, wonderful stuff. Go Look! [...]

APE 2008 – Wet and miserable, but fun!

I wish I’d taken the time to find out who this is, but I was on the way out the door when I took the shot. Unfortunately my visit to APE this year will be forever colored by the dreary drive to it–which included some most certainly dead people in a very grisly road accident that [...] [...]

Get us out from under, Wonder Woman

Simon Gane has contributed a large drawing of the Amazon Princess to the Wonder Woman Day III benefit auction. There’s a lot of great art from different comic artists with their own visions of what fighting for your rights in satin tights is all about. I thought Wendy Pini’s was particularly striking. The event is [...] [...]

The Stupid Pages 25 – Yoga Class by Sam Henderson

Special Guest Stupid Page by Sam Henderson. Culled from the vast Wow Cool archives, this gag may be 20 years old or more. You should be aware that Sam has the eleventh issue of his series The Magic Whistle: Body Armor for Your Dignity from Alternative Comics available now-online or at your local comic book [...] [...]

New Wow Cool Marc Arsenault Book Out Now!

Zoo District #7 – Adventures in Excitement is a 28 page black and white digest with color covers by Marc Arsenault (that’s me) collecting various comics and drawings spanning several years. A few strips appeared previously in Brian Ralph’s Monster, Paper Rodeo, Roarin’ Rick (Veitch)’s Rare Bit Fiends and Tuna Casserole. The rest are previously [...] [...]

My latest Novella

Is on view at Comics Comics. Make of it what you will… [...]

Criswell Predicts – Comics on iTunes

OK, I’m not Criswell (although my grandmother was an actual psychic) But I have a strong sense (hell, a tingling of a spider sense) that in the near future we will see comic book downloads on Apple’s iTunes. I have a strong feeling that DC Comics will be in the initial offering. You heard it [...] [...]

Heroes Con 2008 – photos are up

Joshua Baker blows away the Fro’s Squire Strat riffage with some mean air guitar action. 28 more shots are up on flickr now. [...]

Two t-shirt debuts at HeroesCon and more!

Yup, we will have new shirts from Marc Arsenault and Simon Gane at HeroesCon this weekend. But, just to recap, first, there will also be: Ian Lynam’s Parallel Strokes, Marc Arsenault’s new Book “Adventures in Excitement”, new CDs from Offset Needle Radius and nickname: Rebel, lots of books by Simon Gane and Steven Cerio. So [...] [...]

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Adventures in Excitement – new book by Marc Arsenault is ready for Heroes Con

It’s done! 28 pages of fun. (or 32 in the special edition, which also comes with a tape and other goodies). Go to Heroes Con next weekend to get yours! [...]

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