The late-1960s documentary film of Dada by Helmut Herbst has haunted me for some time and has been an influence both in its form and for its subject. “Germany Dada” or “DADA-Manifest – DA DA – ein Alphabet des deutschen Dadaismus” or “Germany-DADA: An...
Read moreAlan Moore – the Low-Budget Biopic
Jeffrey Lewis tells you all you need to know about Alan Moore. We have just added about 40 of Alan Moore’s America’s Best Comics titles to the Wow Cool store, most at discounted prices. Go get yours.
Read moreGo Listen: Eight Hour Four Tet Mix on Rinse FM
The soundtrack for your day. On Sunday, the 6th of October 2013, Kieran Hebden, better known as Four Tet, took over the Rinse FM airwaves for a very special one-off extended 8 hour show featuring guest mixes from Caribou, Floating Points, Anthony Naples & Pearson Sound, which ran all night...
Read moreLiverpool FC – Anfield Rap
For those who did not get the full effect, and were left needing more from our last post, here is the entire Anfield rap. You will never walk alone, brother.
Read moreRight Place, Wrong Speed – John Peel Day +1
Yes, we are a day late. Friday, October 11 (or possibly Sunday, the thirteenth, or maybe some other day… we acknowledge the eleventh) was John Peel Day. Digging around this week, nearly nine years after John Peel passed, a number of things were discovered on the interwebs that are worth...
Read moreSupport This: DICE: Durham Indie Comics Expo
DICE is the Durham Indie Comics Expo, a comics art festival in Durham, North Carolina. The show will feature lectures, panels, signings, minicomics and more! DICE is running an IndieGoGo campaign to raise at least $3,000 to fund this otherwise completely free show. DICE is the Durham Indy Comics...
Read moreSupport This: Persimmon Cup Collection by Nick Bertozzi
“120-page full-color graphic novel of the first book of my webcomic Persimmon Cup. Sci-fi in scope, Bertozzi-ish in execution.” The great Nick Bertozzi has turned to self-publishing and Kickstarter for the print edition of his popular web comic Persimmon Cup. There is barely a week...
Read moreThe Wow Cool Shop Grows Deep And Wide
Sorry that headline kinda sucks. Wow Cool has recently acquired the stock of legendary retailer Independent Comics and we are getting all those many fine and seldom seen alt comics titles into the shop as fast as we can. We also have picked up the Karl Stevens illustrated Anatomy for Artists by...
Read moreNew In The Shop Tom Hart’s RL Chapter Three
RL #3 – The third chapter of Tom Hart’s chronicle of his daughter Rosalie Lightning’s far too brief life – a work in progress – is now available in this very limited risograph printed and hand assembled comic made by the artist at SAW – The Sequential Artists...
Read moreOperation Ivy – Live 4/25/1988 – The Boilermaker in St. Louis, MO
I never got to see Operation Ivy play live either. Saw them lots of other times tho… Running from cops, drinking coffee, watching Sesame Street. Lint really did cruise around El Cerrito on a lo-rider bicycle… I think that is in a rock video somewhere. Didn’t know there was...
Read moreHappiness Now in our Shop
Yes, Happiness. We can guarantee you that. It took some time, but the technology is now in place. Well, obviously that’s just a load of hooey. We can, however offer you the first three issues of the bleeding-edge New York-based comics anthology Happiness, edited by Leah Wishnia, and the...
Read moreNew in the Shop – Jason Little’s Borb
Jason Little’s brilliant Borb comic strips are now available for you to purchase in print – all 90-odd pages of it – in three long and narrow minicomics. We also have Jason’s classic Jack’s Luck Runs Out and Zero Zero 23, containing his memorable reworking of the...
Read moreCelebrate 20 Years of Alternative Comics with 20% Off All AC Titles
Alternative Comics books are on sale from now until SPX in mid-September at 20% off, in celebration of their 20th anniversary. Discounted price will appear once you add the book to your cart. Get on it now at: https://wowcool.com/Alternative-Comics/. The sale includes the latest books and...
Read moreMagic Whistle #13 by Sam Henderson is Out Now
Sam Henderson started publishing the Magic Whistle series 20 years ago, and today sees the release of the 24th issue. Yes, number 13 is the 24th one. There were 10 issues in the self published volume 1 (largely collected in Humor Can be Funny and The Magic Whistle Blows) Volume 2 has had 13...
Read moreWayne White at TEDxKC 2013
The great Wayne White did his thing recently at TEDxKC. You can stream the whole event online. Wayne closes the show starting after this introduction at 03:27:22 or so. Learn more about Wayne White on this site here.
Read moreMothers News Archives Online Now
Hey, folks, come dig this. The beloved Mothers News – the Paper of Record from Providence, Rhode Island – has made its archives available for free online at Archive.org. Every issue of the RI broadsheet is avaialble for download in whatever appropriate format you like. Included are...
Read moreWhat Makes A Man Start Fires?
Average and boring humans can talk about double nickels, ballot results and mersh projects until the spiel comes home… but I want to know this..
Read moreThe Outliers #1 by Erik T. Johnson Out Now
A school bus is forced off a cliff by a vehicle in pursuit of a legendary woodland giant. Secrets are revealed when it’s young passenger, a boy known for his inability to speak, commands the giant to in an unknown language. Exposed as link between our world and another, the boy must choose...
Read moreHulk Hands? Simon Gane gives us Picasso Hands!
But wait! There’s more! Enjoy this gallery of recent sketches by Simon Gane. Bonus sketch: Juliet from Simon’s graphic novel Paris with Andi Watson – featuring Simon’s interpretation of Picasso’s 1946 painting La Joie de Vivre. Simon has a new book on the way with a...
Read moreAl Columbia is on Instagram
UPDATE – January, 2023 Al Columbia is now active on Instagram at: https://www.instagram.com/psycopoprecords/ Orange Sunshine House and other sites are no longer available but you may be able to find their traces on Archive.org. Al Columbia on Wow Cool
Read moreThe Completely Useless and Incompetent Culture of MI5
As we do nearly every time Adam Curtis opens his mouth, as it were, we are posting a little something about his latest post over on his BBC blog. This one’s a real hoot and a serious time commitment. It deals with the innate idiocy of having a state-funded domestic counterintelligence...
Read moreSam Henderson Talks About Comics on Phones
Sam Henderson has a few things to tell you about this reading comics on your phone business. Visit MagicWhistle.com Sam Henderson on Wow Cool
Read moreSteven Cerio Draws
Visit StevenCerio.com Visit Wow Cool’s shop for Cerio comic, music, prints and more.
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