Jim Starlin started his career in comics in the early 1970s, he is best known for “cosmic” tales and space opera; for revamping the Marvel Comics characters Captain Marvel and Adam Warlock; and for creating or co-creating the Marvel characters Thanos, Drax the Destroyer, Gamora and Shang-Chi...
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Join Wow Cool’s Free Subscription Service Do you want to have your comics held for you every time a new issue comes out? Are you looking for a hard to find book that you want us to be on the lookout for? There is no minimum title count required to sign up, nor do we require
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I knew Mark Campos for over a quarter of a century. We were companeros in the trenches of DIY small press comics boosterism. Mark recently chose to take his own detour off of the journey of life. I, and many other long time comics fighters are for the worse because of it. Before the end
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We’re not sure what “An entire universe. Once and for all. #InfinityWar” actually means, but we are sure excited to see the latest Marvel movie. Hopefully the mystery of how Black Widow went from ginger to blonde will be resolved. Everyone is in it. What do we mean by everyone?...
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It’s 20 percent off everything in the WowCool.com store for one day only. Today. December 26th. Boxing Day. It’s a new store, too. We just made it. There is much more there than there ever was before and we keep adding to it every week. Dozens of books new and old, every single...
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As we ease into the new Wow Cool online shop we are also working out how to best announce new books each week. This inaugural post in the new format covers the last two weeks of books new to the Cupertino and online stores. You can now order directly from blog pages. We will eventually
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Jim Rugg makes comics, books, drawings, illustrations, and designs. His books and comics include Street Angel, Afrodisiac, the PLAIN Janes, Rambo 3.5, Notebook Drawings, and Supermag. He has exhibited drawings at iam8bit, Gallery1988, Mondo, and the Society of Illustrators. Honors include Eisner...
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Art: The Politics and Weirdness of Shade the Changing Girl Cecil Castellucci tells us about what informs the strangeness of Young Animal’s Shade the Changing Girl. Music: The great The Pop Group has re-released their debut LP Y digitally and you can get it on Bandcamp. New to me is this...
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Art: Wim Wenders’ polaroids taken during the 1970s and 80s will be on exhibit at London’s Photographers Gallery 20 OCT 2017 – 11 FEB 2018. “Instant Stories. Wim Wenders’ Polaroids” received notices from the New Yorker and the Guardian. “Michel Fiffe to...
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Peter S. Conrad is a cartoonist, illustrator and graphic novelist based in the South San Francisco Bay Area – AKA Silicon Valley. He is responsible for the long-running “Attempted Not Known” series in all its many forms. You have probably seen his drawings in many places over...
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Tricks! Treats! Free Comics! Haunted Lemonade Stand! Storewide 20% OFF sale! Spooky Music! Demonic Bargain Bins! Wow Cool Alternative Comics hosts the third annual Halloween party at our Cupertino store. Wow Cool | Alternative Comics is a small bookstore specializing in indie comics. We are...
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Art Follow Alex Norris. Farel Dalrymple’s serialized Proxima Centauri is now getting some momentum. Go read. Music K.I.S.S. Tyke via Cool Tools.
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Art The Mega Builder of Garry’s Mod. Vioxtar aka Michael Efraim does some amazing things with the Source engine sandbox. Derf on the demise of the Village Voice. I interviewed Derf last week for the AltComics podcast. Music “Sam Shepard Remembered” part 1 by his bandmate in the...
Read moreNew in the Wow Cool shop September 27 – Saga 47, Royal City, Slasher, Oasis, My Little Pony, Baby Sitters Club, Pashmina, Over the Garden Wall, Graveyard Shakes and much more.
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New digitization. Same crappiness. But glorifully so.
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Just one item this week. Busy at the Alternative Press Expo in San Jose. This is a must-read comic: “The EPA Used to Be Uncontroversial, Now It’s Being Gutted” by Reid Psaltis on The Nib
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Straight out of San Jose from MACLA as part of APE 2017 – The Alternative Press Expo – SPOTLIGHT ON STEVE LAFLER– Marc Arsenault hosts a free-wheeling discussion with Steve Lafler talking about his long history in the comics business, his time in Mexico and his series with...
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Art There is now a BoJack HorseApp Music VCV Open-source (as in FREE) virtual Eurorack DAW for Mac, Windows or Linux with source code and a manual, even. (via Disquiet) Video It’s Elevator: Source the motion picture. Inside Radiohead’s “Lift” Video: Director Oscar Hudson on Planting Easter...
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At long last, the debut episode is here. AltComics talks to Too Much Coffee Man creator Shannon Wheeler about his new book Sh*T My President Says and what it takes to become a New Yorker Cartoonist. The soundtrack music is by Zoltar’s Fortune. alt.comics.shannonwheeler Download MP3...
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Indie comics just got a whole lot easier to find in Silicon Valley. The Wow Cool Alternative Comics shop in Cupertino has some excellent new signs featuring art by Emmy Award winning Adventure Time artist Andy Ristaino. We are at 21607B Stevens Creek Blvd., Cupertino, CA 95014, in the same...
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