On the 22nd of October, 2011 Iain Sinclair and Alan Moore staged “An English Journey Re-imagined” at the Barbican in London. They were joined by musicians Susan Stenger and F. M. Einheit and artist Graham Dolphin. The English Journey they were re-imaginining was that of JB Priestley...
Read moreJason Martin’s Power Animal Systems Joins Lady Gaga’s Born This Way Ball
Our own Jason Martin and his Power Animal Systems will be teaming up with fellow Brown Cuts Neighbors co-founder Lady Starlight to open for Lady Gaga on eight East Coast dates on this leg of the Born This Way Ball Tour. Jason will also be staging two Power Animals performances at AS220 in...
Read moreSteven Cerio on Earth’s Mightiest Bastards Part 2
Steven Cerio is the special guest (Still! Again, even!) in part two of two on the latest installment of the popular comics and related business podcast Earth’s Mightiest Bastards. Steven talks about his art for The Residents and combining his visual and musical work as a filmmaker. His...
Read more“Making Comics and Living With The Consequences” – The Sequential Artists Workshop Testimonials
My former studio mate at the School of Visual Arts, co-founder of Wow Cool – back in 1988, and Chieftain (as he likes to be called) at Alternative Comics, Tom Hart is just barely a year in as the director of the Sequential Artists Workshop (SAW) in Gainesville, Florida, and, as these...
Read morePatrick Kyle Delivers the Black Mass
Patrick Kyle has invaded the shop recently. Not least of all as one of the three progenitors of Basketball Comic (with Mickey Z and Michael DeForge) and a regular of Canadian megablast Wowee Zonk. He has also been dropping his main title, Black Mass, in mini-comic form for some time. Now, that...
Read moreGo Listen: Steven Cerio on Earth’s Mightiest Bastards
Steven Cerio is the special guest in part one of two on the latest installment of the popular comics and related business podcast Earth’s Mightiest Bastards. He talks up his various projects for Wow Cool and his upcoming book for our suite-mates at Alternative Comics. This is much more...
Read moreMagic Whistle January 2013
Yes. Oh yes. Print editions of the Magic Whistle are available here. Number 13 is coming this summer.
Read moreNew Books From Koyama, Mickey Z & Drippy Bone
Eat More Bikes!!!! In case you are not yet tuned in – Nathan Bulmer’s Eat More Bikes is a required daily web visit. In the meanwhile he has dropped a proper print comic through Koyama – a little more sophisticated – with tones and things – and we have that joint...
Read moreArthur Magazine Is Back!
The beloved Arthur Magazine has returned after a four year hiatus. And it’s big! Like, the size newspapers were in the thirties, big (yeah, we missed those days too, it’s freaking huge)! And what better way to return than wrapped up in gorgeous art by our old pal Rick Veitch? Arthur...
Read moreNew Books In The Shop – Spina, Soto and More
Lots of new books have been added to the shop while we have had holidays and such. Not least of which is Sam Spina’s Frantastic Four (above). Also new to these shores is Zack Soto’s remixed and expanded Secret Voice (below), Series ZZZZZ and Other Stories by Michael McMillan, Negron...
Read moreWayne White – Beauty Is Embarrassing
Watch On a Mission to Bring Humor into Fine Art on PBS. See more from Independent Lens. This is on my local PBS station right now. It should be on yours at various times throughout the week. I used to trade minicomics with the great Wayne White back in the 1980s (his are true classics).
Read moreLove Without Sound – The Death of Recorded Music
This has been an interesting new year… hell, an interesting week – for me, certainly – but also for the music industry. It’s possible some other things and people were affected by various other events as well. You know… maybe. Let’s see… Wow Cool turned...
Read moreWay Out Variety Show – The Gershwin Hotel – New York, NY – 01/15/13
Reg Everbest Goes to The Magic Store
“Miss Tracie, Prepare the standard ‘rich and famous’contract for Steve Gerber.” It starts when we’re kids… a show-off at school. Makin’ faces at friends. You’re a clown and a fool. After the biggest freakin’ massive blow up year of astounding...
Read moreWow Cool @25 CNN’s Boom or Bust 1994
Wow Cool was paid a visit by CNN in mid-1994 for a feature on the venomous werewolves of Generation X and their sinister plan to devour the sad old hippies and their filth. It was called Boom or Bust? and originally aired on Sunday, August 14, 1994. Baby Boomer Culture withering under the wave...
Read moreWow Cool @25 Tuna Casserole 7 Foldout 1989
I spent a little while today digging through the archives trying to find something cool to post from our rich history… didn’t find too much exciting… So, in the spirit of this self-congratulatory project, I picked one of my own – the foldout poster from Tuna Casserole #7...
Read moreWow Cool @25 The Reviews Are In 1994
There was a time when hundreds of thousands of printed fanzines were published every single day. These three fondly remembered rags – Factsheet 5, Yakuza (this issue here) and Flipside – gave our catalog glowing reviews. What a strange dark age that was!
Read moreWow Cool @25 The Bobby Madness Method 1995
As far as I know this deep examination of the global behemoth that was Wow Cool in the mid-90s by Bobby Madness only ever appeared in one of our monthly wholesale catalogs. Edition of 200 or so. Wow Cool published four issues of Bobby’s Mad Soul Comics from 1995-1997. You can get...
Read moreWow Cool @25 The New Smile Pad SDCC 1989
Bonus nostalgia content! A peak inside the New Smile Pad that I took to San Diego Comic-Con in 1989. Contributors are – clockwise from the cover: Dan Clowes, Krystine Kryttre, Marc Arsenault, Mark Martin, Ron Turner. Enjoy! “Keep Smile is The Most Important Thing In Your Life.”...
Read moreWow Cool Winter 2013 Wholesale Distro List
Hello friend. Do you own a comic book shop or other fine retail operation that sells comic books? Please consider adding the many fine items distributed by Wow Cool to your offerings. If you are already a customer of Tony Shenton‘s, it’s as easy as sending him an email or giving him...
Read moreWow Cool @25 Wholesale Catalog Boards 1995
Once upon a time in the mid-1990s Wow Cool was an active distributor of zines and independent comic books to retail markets. Apart from the indie-friendly comic books shops, many of our clients were cafes, regular bookstores and record shops. Sadly, there does not seem to be any sort of active...
Read moreWow Cool @25 The First Mail Order Catalog 1989
This is the first item in our nostalgic look back that has a serious cringe element for me. The first couple of posts were not really my work. This one is another story. The very first Wow Cool mailorder catalog is a spectacular mess on the inside. Typography and stats and scans were begged...
Read moreNew Comics from Retrofit & Hic & Hoc In The Shop
Just added to the Wow Cool shop are four new titles from Hic & Hoc Publications: Abzernad by DW, Three Stories by Ian Andersen, Looking Out by Philippa Rice (shown above) and the third installment of Pat Aulisio’s Bowman series – Earthbound. From the former home of Bowman...
Read moreWow Cool @25: Tuna Casserole #1 1988
Tuna Casserole #1, January 1988. Edited and published by Sam Henderson and Tom Hart. This is a scan of the original paste-up boards. Contributing artists included Rob Schreiber, Brett Bondar, Bob Guglielmo, Joe Walden, Ted Bolman, Mikko Meronen and myself. WLH was Sam’s publishing imprint...
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