New in the Wow Cool shop September 27 – Saga 47, Royal City, Slasher, Oasis, My Little Pony, Baby Sitters Club, Pashmina, Over the Garden Wall, Graveyard Shakes and much more.
Read moreBrown Cuts Neighbors – My Favorite Show
New digitization. Same crappiness. But glorifully so.
Read moreDerf and Bruce Simon & Mark Badger from the Jack Kirby Museum at APE 2017 on the AltComics podcast
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Read moreSomething Good To Read on a Sunday
Just one item this week. Busy at the Alternative Press Expo in San Jose. This is a must-read comic: “The EPA Used to Be Uncontroversial, Now It’s Being Gutted” by Reid Psaltis on The Nib
Read moreAltComics Podcast Steve Lafler Live at APE 2017 in San Jose
Straight out of San Jose from MACLA as part of APE 2017 – The Alternative Press Expo – SPOTLIGHT ON STEVE LAFLER– Marc Arsenault hosts a free-wheeling discussion with Steve Lafler talking about his long history in the comics business, his time in Mexico and his series with...
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Art There is now a BoJack HorseApp Music VCV Open-source (as in FREE) virtual Eurorack DAW for Mac, Windows or Linux with source code and a manual, even. (via Disquiet) Video It’s Elevator: Source the motion picture. Inside Radiohead’s “Lift” Video: Director Oscar Hudson on Planting Easter...
Read moreThe Stupid Pages 42: You Will Never Stop Me
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Shannon Wheeler on the AltComics Podcast
At long last, the debut episode is here. AltComics talks to Too Much Coffee Man creator Shannon Wheeler about his new book Sh*T My President Says and what it takes to become a New Yorker Cartoonist. The soundtrack music is by Zoltar’s Fortune. alt.comics.shannonwheeler Download MP3...
Read moreWow Cool Has New Signs in Cupertino
Indie comics just got a whole lot easier to find in Silicon Valley. The Wow Cool Alternative Comics shop in Cupertino has some excellent new signs featuring art by Emmy Award winning Adventure Time artist Andy Ristaino. We are at 21607B Stevens Creek Blvd., Cupertino, CA 95014, in the same...
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Art San Diego Comic-Con is giving away a special 60 page PDF edition of the Jack Kirby section of their 2017 Souvenir book. Ghost World and Eightball creator Daniel Clowes has a new website. Fantagraphics Books is publishing a collection of Benjamin Marra‘s Night Business at the end of the...
Read moreThe Exploding Briefcase Weeps in Silence
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Read moreNew Books at Wow Cool August 30 2017
A buncha old stuff and a buncha new stuff landed at Wow Cool this week. We also just had the Kirby Centenary celebration a few days ago. Only a small fraction of those books are in the online shop. Visit us in Cupertino to grab most of those books from the 60s ’til just this
Read morealtcomics podcast trailer
Here it is! Enjoy the trailer. Hopefully all will go well and the debut full episode will go out on Tuesday, August 29th as planned. Subscribe:
Read moreJack Kirby at 100
Jack Kirby was born in New York City August 28, 1917 Without his work it’s doubtful Wow Cool would have taken the form it has. Photo credit unknown. Found on Jack’s grandson’s Twitter account. Jeremy Kirby also maintains JackKirbyComics.com.
Read moreSomething Good To Read on a Sunday
We made it to the second installment of the Sunday reads. I can now claim this is a regular feature along with New Books in the Shop on Wednesdays and the always irregular The Stupid Pages. If all goes well we should have the first full altcomics podcast on Tuesday August 29 with guest Shannon...
Read moreJack Kirby 100 @ Wow Cool
Every day at Wow Cool Alternative Comics in Cupertino is a celebration of the life and work of Jack Kirby, but for three days in August, 2017 we commemorate the centennial of this great artist’s birth. Jack ‘King’ Kirby was born 100 years ago. He did more to influence American...
Read moreNew Books at Wow Cool August 23 2017
New books in the shop this week include, but are not limited to: Art Sex Music by Cosey Fanni Tutti Black Hammer #12 by Jeff Lemire & David Rubin Edge of Venomverse #5 by Clay Chapman & James Stokoe Fantasy Sports vol. 3: The Green King by Sam Bosma Generation Gone #2 by Ales Kot
Read moreSomething Good to Read on a Sunday
Welcome to the new weekend reading column. We’re still re-arranging the deckchairs for the re-launch of the Wow Cool blog and launch of the altcomics podcast. Hopefully things will be more regular soon. The title of this feature takes its name from The Clash song The Leader… which...
Read moreNew Books at Wow Cool August 16 2017
New in the shop this week: Alexander Hamilton: The Graphic History of an American Founding Father by Jonathan Hennessey & Justin Greenwood Border Worlds by Don Simpson Calexit #1 2nd Printing Cannabis Works 2 by Tatsuyuki Tanaka Cave Carson has a Cybernetic Eye #11 Crafty Cat and the Crafty...
Read moreIntroducing Wow Cool’s alt.comics Podcast
What mad forces compel comic artists to chain themselves to drawing tables day and night? The new altcomics podcast tracks down cartoonists from all ends of the funny book business—graphic novels, comic strips, gag cartoons, web comics—and tries to find out what makes them tick. Your host is...
Read moreNew Comics at Wow Cool August 9, 2017
New in the shop this week: A Castle in England by Jamie Rhodes The Customer is Always Wrong by Mimi Pond The End of the F**king World Hardcover by Charles Forsman Heavy Metal #287 Killian Eng cover by Grant Morrison & co I Hear the Sunspot by Yuki Fumino Juxtapoz #200 Kill or Be Killed
Read moreMaybe The Clash Were The Only Band That Mattered
This old TV clip is incredible. It’s clear that Mick Jones was the man with the plan. But it was these four people that made the magic.
Read moreThe Stupid Pages 40: Nothing On TV Today
Was not easy to squeeze in the “a drawing every day” thing today. Had more insane plans for this NYT from a few days ago. The Sharpie is always magic. Well, maybe less so this time out. Don’t expect much for Sunday either.
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