The New Wow Cool Shop Is Officially Open

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Wow Cool has relaunched it’s comics, zines and music mail order shop. All the fun is at: http://wowcool.com/. There are still at least a hundred books in stock that have not yet been posted to the store, but will be very soon. That includes all the in-print issues of Zap, Weirdo and Hi-Fructose; a couple dozen [...] [...]

By Marc Arsenault | October 1st, 2011 | Leave a comment
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Categories: Funny Books, music, Upcoming Blasts, Wow Cool

Record Store Day 2010 is GO!

Somewhere in the world, Record Store Day has already begun as I write this. I’ve still got about a dozen hours until it gets going here. Pitchfork has a very fine guide to the event(s). Bob Gamber of Monterey’s Vinyl Revolution, A Truly Unique Record Store Providing The Monterey Bay Area with High Quality Collectible [...] [...]

By Marc Arsenault | April 17th, 2010 | Leave a comment
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Categories: music, Upcoming Blasts, Why We Do This, Wow Cool

Target.com Quietly Drops Thousands of Indie & Small Press Products from Online Store

This page and many more like it no longer exists on Target.com

For many small and independent authors, publishers, musicians and filmmakers, Amazon Advantage has been a terrific program to get your product out to a national audience and offer it for sale. For the last few years Advantage members have had the bonus of having their products available through Target.com as well. It seems that that [...] [...]

By Marc Arsenault | August 17th, 2009 | One comment
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Categories: Hearts and Minds, Wow Cool

A Brief Video Tour of Psycho Donuts – Eat the Controversy!

The real news story about Psycho Donuts in Campbell, California that most of the media have missed is that they make unique yummy pastries and are a big supporter of local arts. Watch the above video to get the idea (Soundtrack by nickname: Rebel, of course!). A s’mores donut!? One with cracked malted milk balls [...] [...]

By Marc Arsenault | August 10th, 2009 | Leave a comment
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Categories: Hearts and Minds, Video, Wow Cool

San Francisco Comic Book Shop Experiences Good and Bad

It was long past time I found a new place to buy books when in San Francisco… My local crappy shop in Brooklyn closed up a couple years ago and I finally sucked it up to ride the F out to visit Alex at his excellent Rocketship, and now I’ve found a similar friend at my [...] [...]

By Marc Arsenault | November 25th, 2007 | 2 comments
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Categories: Funny Books, Hearts and Minds, Wow Cool

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