The exhibitor list is now live for SPX Small Press Expo 2019. Go meet Joel Orff and Robin Enrico at A2 – the Alternative Comics table! Joel will debut his new book Twice Shy. Robin will be hawking copies of the new collection of his classic mini comic series Life of Vice. Other Alternative...
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Wow Cool house band nickname: Rebel will be returning to live performance this Sunday after too long of a break. “The Norcal Noisefest Crew bring you the loudest breakfast in the valley… SACRAMENTO AUDIO WAFFLE 57, where we find our heroes eating delicious waffles and drinking...
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Recent posts on Wow Cool Katriona Chapman’s Follow Me In – Reviewed by Rob Clough You’ve Seen Love Death And Robots, Right? Editorial comment moment here. It was OK. About three episodes were pretty memorable. Yeah, I’d totally watch another season. Celebrate [St. Patrick’s Day] With...
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Sentient dairy products, werewolf soldiers, robots gone wild, garbage monsters, cyborg bounty hunters, alien spiders and blood-thirsty demons from hell – all converge in eighteen NSFW animated stories. Presented by Tim Miller (Deadpool, Terminator: Dark Fate) & David Fincher (Fight...
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Get your green on! with our epic Apple Music playlist of Real Irish Punk Rock from Ireland (Northern and Republic of). All the classic bangers from the likes of Stiff Little Fingers, The Undertones, Virgin Prunes and many others are represented. Dig in to you corn beef and Guinness in style and...
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Sunday March 17 2019, saw the last Sunday installment of the 42-year long run of the syndicated Marvel Comics’ Amazing Spider-Man comic strip. The last daily strip was published on Saturday, March 23. Creators Alex Saviuk and ghost writer Roy Thomas make cameo appearances in the first...
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Aaron Smith’s long-running post-Stars of Rock project Scientific Maps has dropped a new LP into the world today. Warm Apparitions is comprised of 13 new songs, and it’s on Seehurst Records. All songs written, performed and recorded by Aaron Smith. Recorded onto a broken laptop in...
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Recent posts on Wow Cool Good Omens Official Trailer Released Steven Cerio’s ABC Book – A Drug Primer The Stupid Pages The Stupid Pages 47 – The Walrus Zippy The Pinhead Read the last two weeks of strips – right. now! New Books, Comics, Zines & Video New Backlist Titles
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Steven Cerio’s ABC Book – A Drug Primer first appeared some two decades ago as a slim hardcover book from the late Gates of Heck Press. It took you on a trip from A for “Angel Dust” to Z for “Zoloft”. The satiric psychedelic tome went on to win a Firecracker...
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With Armageddon just days away, the armies of Heaven and Hell are amassing and The Four Horsemen are ready to ride. Aziraphale, an angel, and Crowley, a demon, agree to join forces to find the missing Anti-Christ and to stop the war that will end everything. Based on the best-selling novel by...
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Drawn with a Palomino Blackwing 54 – The Exquisite Corpse pencil, generously donated to the cause by our friend Jim. Rejected idea sketches for this week’s cartoon along with many others, can be found on the AltComics Instagram.
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In like a lion! The big news this week is that we have added Zippy the Pinhead by Bill Griffith to the site. Read it everyday in full color. Strips are archived for two weeks. We also have many new reviews, features & new books, comics and zines. Recent posts on Wow Cool Preorder Dylan...
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It’s been a couple of months since the last installment of the ‘something good to read on a Sunday’ linkdown bonanza. We’ll see how far we can get down the accumulated backlog of goodness assembled in that interim. How far down the rabbit hole can you go? Art: A Hundred...
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I’m not actually sure what Crazy Rich Asians is, but this seemed like an obvious riff on it. I wrote down dozens of ridiculous possible hobbies for the caption including ‘Bolivian Basket Weaving’ and ‘Obscure Tartan Patterns’ before settling on these two, inspired...
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Former Brown Cuts Neighbors member Rob Goodale has release a three album set as free downloads on Bandcamp today under the name boosterbub. Rob was also a member of the Oakland groups Live Free or Die and Krebstar in the late 1990s. There is a massive quantity of recordings of me and Rob and a...
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Launched just now! A FundRazr campaign to preorder the long overdue and never before published Pickle #11 by Dylan Horrocks from Black Eye Press. We are hoping to get some copies in the Wow Cool shop when it comes out, but we fully urge you to support this awesome project directly. Now if we...
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Drawn October 2017.
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Officially out today is this freshly-remastered five song set by Steven Cerio with Marc Arsenault and Jason Martin of Brown Cuts Neighbors in the late 1990s. Recorded and mixed by Jason Martin at Und Grumm in Schenectady New York. Lyrics and cover art by Steven Cerio. Originally included as part...
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Everything in the Wow Cool shop is 20% Off from Midnight the morning of Valentine’s Day, Thursday, February 14 through Midnight the night of President’s Day, Monday, February 18, 2019 Pacific Time. Mention the sale if you visit our Cupertino store to make sure you get the...
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The title sequence for Good Omens has been revealed. Show-runner Neil Gaiman describes it as “A little bit Edward Gorey, a little bit Garden of Earthly Delights.” This unlikely duo has no time to waste. Good Omens debuts May 31 only on Amazon Prime Video. The end is nigh. Based on...
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Out today on Bandcamp (elsewhere soon) is the debut single from gritboy. Reprobate ex-radio DJ, electronic music dabbler, collector of exotic instruments and avid field recorder. gritboy is this site’s proprietor Marc Arsenault hiding behind a digital persona. Album to follow soon-ish...
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It’s February! Wow! Month will be over soon and it’s barely started. We’ve got a few new books for you to enjoy, from Umbrella Academy to the latest Narwhal & Jelly adventure. A few old gems have been polished up and added to the shop as well. Things were a little slow...
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Legend has it that there were two siblings aged four and six growing up together in a house on Balltown Road in Schenectady, New York in 1980 that acquired a magic machine that could record sounds onto strips of plastic. Their names were Jason and Colleen Martin. They took the prophecy of the...
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