Turtle Needs Work by Steve Wolfhard is about the cutest damn thing ever. New from Koyama Press and available in our shop right now.
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Our Shoddy New Office Mates
The news seems to have gotten around that Wow Cool has put up Alternative Comics in the front room like a sketchy relative. This is true. Largely the front room part, where Alternative Comics is now based. The shelves have also arrived. They’re fairly nice shelves. They used to belong to...
Read moreFluke Fanzine in Huffington Post
Words we never thought we’d be typing department! Yes indeed, Fluke Fanzine was recently profiled in Huff Post land. You can get your Fluke zine fix right here on Wow Cool, including the recent tenth issue with cover art by Nate Powell as seen above.
Read morePost Punk Film Fest at The Roxie This Weekend
You are required to go see all of This Must Be the Place: Post-Punk Tribes 1978 – 1982 at The Roxie Theater in San Francisco this weekend. Read my interview with co-curator Mike Keegan on Maximum RockNRoll.
Read moreFree Pussy Riot!
Three young women are being detained by Russian authorities for allegedly performing a protest song in a cathedral as part of a feminist punk group “Pussy Riot”. Nadezhda Tolokonnikova, Maria Alekhina and Ekaterina Samutsevich were arrested in March 2012 and charged with...
Read moreYou’re So New To Me – SDCC 2012 Finds
I know it’s CCI now or something, but whatever. I went to San Diego Comic-Con for the first time in 14 years this past weekend and this is a quick run-down of artists, books and places that were either new to me or finally stuck in my mind enough to want to pass them along.
Read moreYour Dream Airport Bookstore – Compass SFO Terminal 2
I mentioned to a few people this past weekend at the Comic-Con thing in San Diego that I found this great bookstore in the airport that had Jeffrey Brown’s Vader & Son and Lisa Hanawalt’s Fart Book (both from Chronicle Books) prominently displayed and just a real great selection...
Read morePhotos from Comic-Con 2012
39 photos of dubious merit, shot with my crappy phone-cam at the latest San Diego comics and what-have-you entertainmenty get-together clusterflock. Suitably annotated. Enjoy. See them all on thee flickr.
Read moreUncle Marc Goes To The Toy Store
The grandparents were in town to spoil the Wow Cool kids. They got off easy on the tab when we found a ton of Jay Steven’s Secret Saturdays action figures on clearance. The show is currently in reruns on the Cartoon Network’s Boomerang cable channel and is some enjoyable stuff in a...
Read moreSneak Peek at James Kochalka’s SuperF*ckers Cartoon
This is a small clip from the first episode. David Faustino as Jack Krak and Ted Biaselli as Wonder Kyle. Attendees at the Top Shelf Productions panel at San Diego Comic-Con this past weekend got to see a much longer excerpt, with David Faustino in the audience. The scene gets rather more insane...
Read moreSupport This – SP7 Alt. Comics Tribute to GARO
Retrofit Comics is getting together with Secret Prison to produce the biggest book either of them will have released to date. It’s an alternative/art-comics tribute to the spearhead of the Gekiga movement, the anthology Garo. They are turning to you, dear comic reader, to support the...
Read moreA Variety Show – The Gershwin Hotel – New York, NY – 07/12/12
Brandon Graham’s Escalator and other Transports
Brandon Graham’s collection of short strips Escalator is now in stock in the Wow Cool shop as are many other titles from Alternative Comics. Many more are on their way. Wow Cool has been named as the preferred online retailer of Alternative Comics. All in-print Alternative titles will soon...
Read moreHic & Hoc Publications Added to The Shop
New to the Wow Cool shop are the many fine publications from brand new indie venture (four books so far in 2012!) Hic & Hoc. Wow Cool will also be distributing Hic & Hoc to retail stores near you in the very near future (holy crap, Comic-Con is, like, hours away… right after...
Read moreTales Designed To Thrizzle Last Issue Out Now
We have no idea around here when the proper new comic book day is this week, but we do know that: A: We have the very last issue of Michael Kupperman’s Tales Designed to Thrizzle (#8) in stock now. B: We can’t ship them out to you until Thursday because of this pesky Independence Day...
Read moreSales Tax Increase and Other Delights
California residents who order from our shop, please take note. The sales tax we charge for orders shipping to addresses in California has increased from 8.25% to 8.375%. Apparently this increase is to offset the cost of anti-bullying measures in Santa Clara County, where we are located. Yes...
Read moreLeague of Extraordinary Gentlemen: Century 3 – 2009 Out Now
The final chapter of Alan Moore and Kevin O’Neill’s epic is out now and is available in the Wow Cool shop. Also new to us from Top Shelf is James Kochalka’s SuperF*ckers collection.
Read moreMany Books Back In Stock
We’ve recently got fresh stock in on many popular books and you may want to know! Sold out for anywhere from 5 seconds to a couple of months – but now back in stock – are the following books (and probably others): Lose #3 by Michael DeForge Bound & Gagged Study Group 12 #4...
Read moreMagic Whistle Motion July 2012
July? The latest compilation of Sam Henderson’s twice a week strips given sound and motion. Well… some motion. A full range of Sam’s books are available from Wow Cool.
Read moreSnake Oil 7 – New Comic by Charles Forsman
Brand new in the shop is the latest release from Retrofit Comics – Charles “The End of the Fucking World” Forsman’s Snake Oil 7. Desperate teenage indie rock lust and violence are explored in this full-length comic.
Read moreHelp. My 2-Year-Old Draws LIke Barry McGee
Not actually my 2-year old. Not sure where I took this picture. Possibly at Last Gasp. Possibly at a local diner. No idea. Barry McGee Wikipedia entry
Read moreGary Panter Draws Mark Sultan’s War on Rock ‘N’ Roll
Stumbled across this randomly today. Some lovely recent scratchy Gary Panter art for Mark Sultan‘s new LP “War on Rock ‘n’ Roll” on In The Red Records. Vinyl only. Available from Midheaven Mailorder. Mark Sultan (a.k.a. BBQ) is a one-man band and one of the best...
Read moreNew Comics by Hellen Jo & Calvin Wong
Missed CAKE? Well you can get a slice of what you missed from The Regular Show’s first couple of Calvin Wong and Hellen Jo, whose Ramble On! #2 and Deep Cut made their debut at the show. We also have the first Ramble On! and the new edition of Hellen Jo’s Jin & Jam in
Read moreI Married A Counterinsurgent For…
You will go and read “HOW TO KILL A RATIONAL PEASANT” by Adam Curtis. With useful audio/visual reinforcement. Keep Calm and Carry On…
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