We have had a seriously busy couple weeks, not least of all because of our big event last week with March artist and Come Again author Nate Powell. He left us a few signed editions of his books. If you are interested in grabbing one, stop by the...
Read moreEvery Person Is A Story: Mimi Pond’s The Customer Is Always Wrong – Review
Mimi Pond’s follow-up to her 2014 book Over Easy, The Customer Is Always Wrong, takes the best parts of the first book and amplifies them. The story of Pond’s stand-in character Madge, an inspiring artist working as a waitress at the...
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Art Matt Seneca dives into Barry Windsor-Smith’s Weapon X—the ultra violent re-imagining of Marvel’s Logan/Wolverine’s ‘origin’ story—at the Comics Journal. The Black Panther Party wasn’t just happening in...
Read more2018 Harvey Award Nominees Announced
Winners will be announced at the 30th Anniversary Celebration on October 5th during ReedPOP’s New York Comic Con NEW YORK, NY – August XX, 2018 – The Harvey Awards today revealed the nominees and new categories debuting at the 30th anniversary...
Read moreWow Cool Round-Up: New Books and Comics August 8, 2018
Check out some of this week’s content and browse our new books! We are super happy to welcome new regular book reviewer Rob Clough to Wow Cool. He’s starting out this week with Mimi Pond’s double shot of diner fare in Over Easy...
Read moreStories That Need To Be Written: Mimi Pond’s Over Easy – Review
Reading Mimi Pond’s book Over Easy (Drawn & Quarterly), one gets the sense that this is a book that had to be written. As a professional writer and cartoonist for over thirty years (The Simpsons, Pee Wee’s Playhouse and Designing...
Read moreSomething Good to Read on a Sunday for August 5th
The summer is just zooming by. How is it August already? The 2019 calendars are in the stores. Next year’s IKEA catalog is in the mailbox. People are firming up Halloween plans. It’s a Sunday. Take a breather with some hot link...
Read moreSoFA South First Fridays Art Walk August 3rd 2018
Team Wow Cool made the trip to DTSJ – Downtown San Jose, specifically to SoFA (South of First Area. What? Really, that’s what it stands for?) for the South First Fridays Art Walk last night. The event skipped July, so this was sort of...
Read moreWow Cool Round-Up: New Books and Comics — August 3, 2018
Check out some of this week’s content and browse our new books! This week’s headlines: Tom Hart is creating and teaching comics on Patreon Something Good To Read On A Sunday for July 29th Nate Powell talk and signing for Come Again...
Read moreSomething Good To Read On A Sunday for July 29th
Art: Take a Trip to the Museum With Cartoonists John Porcellino & Gabrielle Bell. Check out zco.mx, a curated not-for-profit comic-sharing website for self-publishing cartoonists and their readers. The site brings cartoonists together to...
Read moreWow Cool Round-Up: New Books and Comics — July 28, 2018
Check out some of this week’s content and browse our new books! This week’s headlines: Tom Hart is creating and teaching comics on Patreon Something Good To Read On A Sunday for July 22nd — Hungry Ghosts Nate Powell talk and signing...
Read moreTom Hart is creating and teaching comics on Patreon
Hey everyone, I’m on Patreon! Support my 17+ years mentoring new cartoonists! Spells, sketches and secret sauces in the patron-only feed. I work tirelessly to create an advanced comics pedagogy along with serious mentorship to support comic...
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