The new book from the acclaimed author of Guilty, Whatever, and Los Angeles Times Book Prize finalist The Lodger, Failure collects Karl Stevens’ beautifully rendered humorous comic strips from the Phoenix, Boston’s recently deceased...
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Contrary to popular belief, Fantagraphics Books does occasionally issue a floppy comic book every now and then. We’re not sure how far and wide this one is being spread, but it would be very nice to see this sort of book from comics’...
Read moreIan Curtis, the lead singer of Joy Division, died by his own hand some 33 years and 3 days ago. The recording above (from 18th December 1979: Les Bains Douches, Paris), which I’d never encountered before this evening, sounds – to my...
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Special guest report from Laura Susong on the 2013 Toronto Comics Arts Festival (TCAF). Alternative Comics found itself in a serious last-minute crunch when artist Karl Stevens fell ill and could not attend the show. Like the kick-ass...
Read moreI was looking for links related to Jonny Negron, when I stumbled upon these two unexpected gems. Our customer comicKkrakK has reviewed at great length and depth his experiences with ordering comics from Wow Cool. He seems pleased. Thanks Mr...
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In the shop now is the first giant sized issue of Adapt by Jonny Negron, published by Floating World. Hopefully there will be many more.
Read moreSteven Cerio draws. A video. Enjoy.
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Just added to the Wow Cool shop are five of the most recent releases from TopShelf Productions: Alan Moores’s Unearthling, Nemo: Heart of Ice and The From Hell Companion; and, Jess Fink’s We Can Fix It and the fifth volume of James...
Read more“The art of the future will be the creation of situations or nothing”. Go watch “On the Passage of a few People through a Rather Brief Moment in Time: The Situationist International 1956-1972” Hopefully the audio will be...
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OK… That’s not really true. But this thing is a major potential time-suck of unusual proportion. Well… size of the earth proportion… or, the bit of it that Google Street View has gotten to… or the portion that...
Read moreMoving together through an elaborately signaled landscape. See Previous.
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