Greenlight This: INFRA

It’s been too long since we’ve mentioned any video games or deep topography related items here, so, via Rock, Paper Shotgun, we urge you to check out this very interesting game in development that you can help support right now by green lighting it on Steam. Infra is a first-person...

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Memorial Music Monday

It seems fitting somehow to present some recent sounds from members of Brown Cuts Neighbors on Memorial Day, since one of our main members – James Kopta – has been gone from us for over a decade. The work lives on, however, and many of our videos will be presented by Jason Martin as...

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Karl Stevens’ Failure Available Now

Karl Stevens’ Failure Available Now

The new book from the acclaimed author of Guilty, Whatever, and Los Angeles Times Book Prize finalist The Lodger, Failure collects Karl Stevens’ beautifully rendered humorous comic strips from the Phoenix, Boston’s recently deceased alternative weekly. His slice of life vignettes and...

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Dash Shaw Three New Stories

Dash Shaw Three New Stories

Contrary to popular belief, Fantagraphics Books does occasionally issue a floppy comic book every now and then. We’re not sure how far and wide this one is being spread, but it would be very nice to see this sort of book from comics’ foremost formalist Dash Shaw come out on a fairly...

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33.3 Joy Division – Les Bains Douches Dec 1979

Ian Curtis, the lead singer of Joy Division, died by his own hand some 33 years and 3 days ago. The recording above (from 18th December 1979: Les Bains Douches, Paris), which I’d never encountered before this evening, sounds – to my audio engineer and former DJ ears – to be...

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Alternative Comics @ TCAF 2013

Alternative Comics @ TCAF 2013

Special guest report from Laura Susong on the 2013 Toronto Comics Arts Festival (TCAF). Alternative Comics found itself in a serious last-minute crunch when artist Karl Stevens fell ill and could not attend the show. Like the kick-ass stormtrooper she is, Laura stepped up to the plate and made...

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Wow Cool Comics Order reviews by comicKkrakK

I was looking for links related to Jonny Negron, when I stumbled upon these two unexpected gems. Our customer comicKkrakK has reviewed at great length and depth his experiences with ordering comics from Wow Cool. He seems pleased. Thanks Mr. comicKkrakK! He has many videos up, including a review...

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Guy Debord Was My Landlord

“The art of the future will be the creation of situations or nothing”. Go watch “On the Passage of a few People through a Rather Brief Moment in Time: The Situationist International 1956-1972” Hopefully the audio will be less dodgy for you than it is for me. Enjoy it for...

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Krebstar – Barbara Bain EP released Today

Barbara Bain by Krebstar Available for a mere dollar on Bandcamp today are the fragments that remain in all their noisy glory of the abandoned second CD release (There had been 3 cassettes and several compilation appearances) of my mid-90’s band Krebstar. “Barbara Bain” was a...

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Alternative Comics @ Toronto Comic Arts Festival

Alternative Comics @ Toronto Comic Arts Festival

Wow Cool’s noble office-mates Alternative Comics have pushed forth three new comic books on an unsuspecting world that are debuting this weekend up in the worlds most polite city, Toronto, Ontario, Canada at TCAF – The Toronto Comic Arts Festival. Creators Elaine M. Will (Look...

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Bil Keane’s Family-Style Circus at PF Chang’s

Bil Keane’s Family-Style Circus at PF Chang’s

In PF Chang’s restaurants around the land there exists something like this… A former pay telephone alcove, with a shelf and an empty phone jack, guarded not by terracotta warriors, but by enlarged Family Circus cartoons by Bil Keane. PF Chang’s opened its first restaurant in...

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