Over the last three years Steven Cerio has been working on his first film, an intense and personal psychedelic document called The Magnificent Pigtail Shadow. Tonight will see the debut of the final cut of the movie at 119 Gallery in Lowell, Massachusetts. Watching the film is an immersive and...
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Gabrielle Bell is hitting Skylight Books in Los Angeles this very evening for the start of her Exclusive West Coast Tour. All the details can be found on her blog or by clicking the bear above that was shamelessly pilfered from the same. We’ve just recently added her many fine publications...
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Nobrow 7 is here. Now! New full color work from Jillian Tamaki, Luke Pearson, Joost Swarte, Tom Gauld, Anders Nilsen, Joseph Lambert, Michael DeForge, Ethan Rilly, Angie Wang and many more. But wait, there’s more! Expanding your consciousness as you unfold it’s pages, there is the...
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Little Heart: A Comic Anthology for Marriage Equality carries on past it’s print anthology without it’s original non-profit organization partner, and they want your help with a new tumblr art project. Get the whole story on what is going on with them, and the Minnesota Vote NO...
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Secret Prison #7 has just landed in our shop, another in the steady stream of SPX debuts. Wow Cool is a co-publisher of this volume and it was a great feeling to open up a case of these. It’s a hefty 10×13″ 172 page, squarebound beast. A bargain at fifteen bucks. You may recall...
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This week continues to deliver new gems that were freshly debuted at the 2012 SPX show. Today brings two hot new books from AdHouse: Thomas Herpich’s third solo comic White Clay (shown below) and the third issue of Ethan Rilly’s much acclaimed Pope Hats series (looming large above...
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SPX is over, and many of the exceptional books that debuted there this years are making their way into our little shop. Yesterday saw the arrival of Michael DeForge’s Lose #4. Today we have the much anticipated new book by Theo Ellsworth, the full color hardcover Understanding Monster Book...
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The new issue of Michael DeForge’s much loved comic book series from Koyama Press is out now, and it’s 44 pages of awesome. Get yours now!
Read moreSam Henderson has posted his latest Magic Whistle gag reel – this time with some deep background on Tex Avery and laughtracks. Sam’s Magic Whistle #12 from Alternative Comics will make it’s debut at BCGF – The Brooklyn Comics and Graphics Festival, November 10, 2012. It...
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Hey! Go like this on the Facebook. All the details are still coming together, but for now you should go explore the massive new page for Steven Cerio’s film Magnificent Pigtail Shadow. A many city tour, soundtrack on Wow Cool and DVD from Wow Cool and Noiseville are on the way as well in...
Read moreThe legendary BBC Radiophonic Workshop that ran from 1958-1998 in its homebase at the equally legendary Maida Vale Studios has been revived under the direction of none other than Matthew Herbert. A more capable man for the task is hard to imagine. His work and ethic have been an inspiration. Not...
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So the jerk who edits this picks a book by someone other than Uncivilized to lead off? Yup. We have Ryan Sands & Michael DeForge’s Thickness #3 – The final installment of the erotic alt comics anthology in stock. But, there are also seven (7) of the mini digest sized ultra...
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First announced a year ago, it now is official that the legendary FantaCon will be returning in 2013. FantaCon was first launched in August 1979 in Albany, New York by Kevin and Veronica Cahill and Tom Skulan. It was the first comic convention I ever went to, and the second. Wow Cool exhibited...
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We have just received a discreet shipment of the last issue of the Ryan Sands & Michael DeForge edited anthology of erotic comics. It was shipped to us in a plain brown wrapper. Thickness #3 Features sexy new comics by Lamar Abrams, Jimmy Beaulieu, Edie Fake, Julia Gfrörer, William Cardini...
Read moreFeaturing Lady Starlight rocking a very different look at 1:40 in. Enjoy! Get on the Starlight Tumblr Machine. Breedlove Home Base.
Read moreJason Martin has posted a large selection of videos spanning over 20 years of live performances, music videos and television clips. There are many great rarely seen Brown Cuts Neighbors shows in the set, including several from my time with the group in 1989-1991 and 1998-2002. There are also a...
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I was very sad to hear yesterday of the passing of Joe Kubert, one of the true giants of the comics book industry, from near to it’s beginnings until the present day. It’s pretty much impossible to measure the extent of his influence. Kubert was one of the most prolific creators in...
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CAROUSEL @ SOLOWAY Friday, August 3, 2012 8:00 pm Soloway presents the latest CAROUSEL, cartoon slide shows created and presented by a wide array of writers, cartoonists, and other characters.Featuring: Gabrielle Bell, Emily Flake, Myla Goldberg, Jason Little, Danny Hellman, and Matthew Thurber...
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New to the Wow Cool shop is Karl Stevens’ excellent LA Times Book Prize nominated book The Lodger. Also available are Karl’s Ignatz award funded debut release Guilty and the Alternative Comics published Whatever. Karl’s Failure comic is published weekly in the Boston Phoenix...
Read moreTHE PROJECTS: experimental art + comics festival in Portland. A new era for comics art: 3 days of workshops, exhibitions, screenings and collaborative projects with artists from around the world. Oct. 19-21, IPRC (and other venues), Portland, OR THE PROJECTS brings together experimental artists...
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