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...
Read moreMichael DeForge The Boy In Question
Michael DeForge has delivered a brand new full-length comic from Space Face Books called The Boy In Question and it is in our shop now. Enjoy.
Read moreOur Summer Intern covers Scott Pilgrim’s Sex Bob-Omb
Or Beck’s, as the case pretty much is… Maggie is helping us out with something mysterious known as spreadsheets, or something like that. It’s all very timey-wimey strange stuff… data base is possibly the new thing after dubstep. No idea. We hope she sorts it out for us...
Read morePatrick Kyle New Comics
New Comics by Partick Kyle. Massive Risograph glory. Oh, just go get that.
Read moreAlternative Comics Announces Additional 2013 Print and Digital Releases
Erik T. Johnson’s Outliers #1 and Sam Henderson’s Magic Whistle #0 Added to Alternative Comics‘ 2013 schedule. Debuting on ComiXology, and also available direct from the publisher, on June 19, is the free digital-only full-length comic Magic Whistle #0 by Sam Henderson. This newly...
Read moreJen Sorensen Wins Reuben Award for Editorial Cartoons
Jen ‘Slowpoke’ Sorensen has won the prestigious 2013 Reuben Award for Editorial Cartoons – presented every year since 1954 by the National Cartoonists Society. Big congratulations to her from everyone at Wow Cool and Alternative Comics. Alternative published Jen’s first...
Read moreMemorial 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...
Read moreJuxtapoz #149 Beastie Boys: A Visual History + Tribute to MCA
I think that’s pretty self-explanatory. You need this. Go get it now from the Wow Cool shop.
Read moreKarl 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...
Read moreDash 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...
Read more33.3 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...
Read moreAlternative 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...
Read moreWow 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...
Read moreJonny Negron’s Adapt New from Floating World
In the shop now is the first giant sized issue of Adapt by Jonny Negron, published by Floating World. Hopefully there will be many more.
Read moreSteven Cerio Draws
Steven Cerio draws. A video. Enjoy.
Read moreJason Martin Power Animal Systems – The Gershwin Hotel – New York, NY – 05/16/13
New Alan Moore & Other TopShelf Titles In The Shop
Just added to the Wow Cool shop are five of the most recent releases from TopShelf Productions: Alan Moores’s Unearthling, Nemo: Heart of Ice and The From Hell Companion; and, Jess Fink’s We Can Fix It and the fifth volume of James Kochalka’s Johnny Boo: Does Something!
Read moreGuy 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...
Read moreGeoGuessr Ruined My Life and cost me my marriage and my kids
OK… That’s not really true. But this thing is a major potential time-suck of unusual proportion. Well… size of the earth proportion… or, the bit of it that Google Street View has gotten to… or the portion that developer Anton Wallein has deemed fit to drop you in...
Read moreGabrielle Drake in JG Ballard’s Crash 1971
Moving together through an elaborately signaled landscape. See Previous.
Read moreKrebstar – 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...
Read moreMAGIC IF : Final E.S.P. Live Taping – Museum of Arts and Design – New York, NY – 05/11/13
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...
Read moreBil 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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