Happy birthday to us! Sometime in 1988 the editorial crew behind School of Visual Arts off-Campus publication Tuna Casserole changed it’s name from The Art Dicks to Wow Cool. Tuna Casserole was launched by Sam Henderson and Tom Hart in the studio that Tom and I shared at the SVA dorms in...
Read moreYes, it is for December. Magic Whistle #12 still needs more loving homes.
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New Zealand animator and illustrator Karl Wills has brought his clean lined champion Princess Seppuku to America and Wow Cool has her. The first two comics in the series are available now at a special introductory price while supplies last. Book One: Princess Seppuku and The Hunt for Robot X...
Read moreCourtesy of Sam Henderson and The Magic Whistle.
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Keiji Nakazawa, creator of the semi-autobiographicsl ten volume Hadashi no Gen (Barefoot Gen) manga series about the atomic bombing of Hiroshima and the aftermath has died at 73. I picked up a copy of his shorter I Saw It comic when I was 14. It changed me forever. The entire Barefoot Gen series...
Read moreThe creator of the Thunderbirds has left the planet. All you need to know about the worlds Gerry and his wife Sylvia created can be found on the Fanderson site.
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Joe Strummer passed away ten years ago today. He died suddenly, the victim of an undiagnosed congenital heart defect. He would have been sixty years old now had he skipped that one. Hellcat Records recently reissued the three classic releases he made with the Mescaleros. You should track those...
Read moreI don’t know that I’ve seen all this easily linked to in one place. Dr. & Quinch and Bojeffries Saga creator Alan Moore has been in and about the news just a bit of late. Most significantly: the website JimmysEnd.com has been launched, featuring the first two installments of a...
Read moreShift cut tangle word lines–Word falling–Photo falling–Bill Paxton Taking Tiger Mountain In 1974 Alan E. Nourse – an American physician and author released a science fiction novel called The Bladerunner about black market medical services trading in a future world. Nourse...
Read moreLightning Bolt’s Brian Chippendale has been sneakily posting videos for his other musical project Black Pus on the YouTube for the last year or so. Other goodies are to be found on his channel as well. This track is from the 2008 CD “Black Pus 4, All Aboard The Magic Pus”...
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Brown Cuts Neighbors contributed a version of our PXL Vision show ‘Church The Gumby’ to PXL THIS 22. If you are down that way, you should go. More info. Monday, December 10 – 7pm Unurban Coffee 3301 Pico Blvd Santa Monica, CA, USA 90401
Read moreHELP OUR MISSION TO SUPPORT AND NURTURE COMICS ARTISTS To do this, we’re asking for your help. Donations, to keep our lights on, to pay our evil landlord (super evil!), to keep our Risograph running. Every donation matters and helps as does every click to help spread the word . No effort is too...
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Space Face Books launched an astounding six new publications at BCGF this year. We have all of them, including a new mini by Michael DeForge, Chuck Forsman’s Snake Oil 8 (not actually a mini comic) and Alex Schubert’s Cyber Surfer. Check out all that Space Face has to offer. Cyber...
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Three of McSweeney’s all ages line of books have been added to the shop: Matt Furie’s Night Riders, Jordan Crane’s Keep Our Secrets and Benny’s Brigade by Arthur Bradford & Lisa Hanawalt. Share and enjoy.
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Clearly sensing a need to cash in on the potential market opened up by the 99%’s embracing of the V for Vendetta Guy Fawkes mask at Occupy events, some genius involved with the licensing of Watchmen-related products has brought this crass piece of shit Banksy rip-off into the world. The...
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Nope, not an unproduced The Middleman episode, we just have a few new titles in the shop that you should know about. These are them: Everything Unseen #3 – Parts 6 & 7 by Drew Beckmeyer – brand new from Revival House Press. Ritual #2: The Reverie by Malachi Ward – also new...
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We’ll try to make this as straightforward as possible… Scott McCloud says: “Terrific! Lewis goes places no other cartoonists have gone.” Ed Brubaker says: “True Swamp still stands as one of the most interesting and original worlds created in all of comics.” Dylan Horrocks says...
Read moreI thought the censored version might be funnier. You decide. Links to the uncut version are readily available. From the fine Frederators at Cartoon Hangover. Get all your Kochalka goodness right here on Wow Cool, including the dangerously very near to out-of-print (and somewhat similarly themed)...
Read moreUnderground Comix legend and member of the Zap collective Spain Rodriguez passed away this morning. I suggest you pay a visit to his studio with Babylon Falling, and pretend otherwise.
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Karl Stevens announced on Facebook Tuesday that he has been sacked by the Boston Phoenix, where his comic strip (most recently called ‘Failure’) had been running for seven years. The dismissal is reportedly due to advertiser complaints over the most recent strip shown above. The...
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Steven Cerio’s The Magnificent Pigtail Shadow will be showing in Portland, Oregon tonight as part of Experimental Mini-Fest Day Two at the Clinton Street Theater. Go see that. The Big Takeover recently had very nice things to say about the film. The soundtrack for the film is available...
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