It’s Official! Fantagraphics Bookstore & Gallery in Seattle, Washington will be hosting a release party for this massive brick of a book on January 30, 2010. The event marks the debut of their new Spectacular Saturday series. The show will feature original art and graphics by underground mini comix pioneers Jaimie Alder, Jim Blanchard, Wayne [...] [...]
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Newave! is a 892 page monster collection of 80's minicomix. Art by Marc Arsenault, Sam Henderson, Ion, Wayno and scores of others. Available Right Now!
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By Marc Arsenault | January 19th, 2010 |
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Categories: Funny Books, Upcoming Blasts, Wow Cool More previews and info on Fantagraphics site. Pre-order yours today! Newave!: The Underground Mini Comix of the 1980s on Amazon. [...] By Marc Arsenault | January 12th, 2010 |
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Categories: Funny Books, Upcoming Blasts, Wow Cool Is a porno comic. Yes, Brandon Graham’s 56 page smut comic from 2003 Perverts of the Unknown is that most rarest and sought after of things. Impossible to find in a reasonable condition for less than One Thousand US Dollars! As the sole reviewer on Amazon attests (in box, below), it is not the most [...] [...] By Marc Arsenault | December 17th, 2009 |
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Categories: Funny Books, Hearts and Minds, Wow Cool 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, [...] [...] By Marc Arsenault | October 22nd, 2009 |
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Categories: Funny Books, Upcoming Blasts, Wow Cool, music 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. [...] Underground comic book legend S. Clay Wilson (Zap, Checkered Demon) suffered a severe brain injury back in November on his way home from the APE ahow. He’s making progress towards a recovery, but he needs much expensive therapy. Tomorrow, Sunday, a benefit show will be held at the Hemlock Tavern in San Francisco. Sunday 11 January [...] [...] By Marc Arsenault | January 11th, 2009 |
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Categories: Upcoming Blasts, Wow Cool, music 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 [...] [...] By Marc Arsenault | November 2nd, 2008 |
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Categories: Funny Books, Wow Cool, flickr Intergalactico is the creative/multidisciplinary studio founded by designer, artist and illustrator, Chris Capuozzo; and the website received its official launch today. You may know his stuff from his work with Funny Garbage or the last Paper Rodeo, or even some moldy old issues of Wow Cool’s Tuna Casserole anthology. Anyway. He’s a great artist [...] [...] By Marc Arsenault | September 15th, 2008 |
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Categories: Funny Books, Upcoming Blasts, Wow Cool 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 [...] [...] 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 [...] [...] By Marc Arsenault | June 18th, 2008 |
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Categories: Funny Books, Upcoming Blasts, Wow Cool 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! [...] By Marc Arsenault | June 15th, 2008 |
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Categories: Funny Books, Upcoming Blasts, Wow Cool See some choice Simon Gane art on Arthur Conan Doyle story in the Graphic Classics Free Comic Book Day special, available Friday, May 3rd, 2008 at finer comic book shops everywhere. Simon previews his story here. Read a review of it on Newsarama, where they say that “Simon Gane has a wonderfully busy, angular style [...] [...] Wow Cool will be at the Heroes Convention in Charlotte, North Carolina, June 20-22, 2008. There will be a few new debuts, lots of stuff by Simon Gane, Steve Cerio and myself, music, comics, shirts, etc. I’m hoping to spend most of my time drawing sketches of 70s Marvel monsters for the kids (or, failing [...] [...] By Marc Arsenault | March 18th, 2008 |
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Categories: Funny Books, Upcoming Blasts, Wow Cool by Jason Martin 1991 [...] By Jason Martin | January 25th, 2008 |
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Categories: The Stupid Pages, Wow Cool Wow Cool was launched 20 years ago this month by Sam Henderson, Tom Hart and Marc Arsenault in New York. Tonight, a few of those characters and more are gathering in Carroll Gardens/Cobble Hill, Brooklyn, New York for a memorial pub crawl. If you are in the neighborhood, stop by Alex Cox’s excellent Rocketship shop [...] [...] It seems that Wow Cool has been around long enough now (20 years this coming January) that it has attained some sort of historical signifigance, or at least our old friend Rick Bradford of the Poopsheet Foundation thinks so. I guess I need to get it in gear to get him much more art and [...] [...] |
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