The beloved Arthur Magazine has returned after a four year hiatus. And it’s big! Like, the size newspapers were in the thirties, big (yeah, we missed those days too, it’s freaking huge)! And what better way to return than wrapped up...
Read moreNew Books In The Shop – Spina, Soto and More
Lots of new books have been added to the shop while we have had holidays and such. Not least of which is Sam Spina’s Frantastic Four (above). Also new to these shores is Zack Soto’s remixed and expanded Secret Voice (below), Series...
Read moreWayne White – Beauty Is Embarrassing
Watch On a Mission to Bring Humor into Fine Art on PBS. See more from Independent Lens. This is on my local PBS station right now. It should be on yours at various times throughout the week. I used to trade minicomics with the great Wayne White...
Read moreLove Without Sound – The Death of Recorded Music
This has been an interesting new year… hell, an interesting week – for me, certainly – but also for the music industry. It’s possible some other things and people were affected by various other events as well. You...
Read moreWay Out Variety Show – The Gershwin Hotel – New York, NY – 01/15/13
Reg Everbest Goes to The Magic Store
“Miss Tracie, Prepare the standard ‘rich and famous’contract for Steve Gerber.” It starts when we’re kids… a show-off at school. Makin’ faces at friends. You’re a clown and a fool. After the biggest...
Read moreWow Cool @25 CNN’s Boom or Bust 1994
Wow Cool was paid a visit by CNN in mid-1994 for a feature on the venomous werewolves of Generation X and their sinister plan to devour the sad old hippies and their filth. It was called Boom or Bust? and originally aired on Sunday, August 14...
Read moreWow Cool @25 Tuna Casserole 7 Foldout 1989
I spent a little while today digging through the archives trying to find something cool to post from our rich history… didn’t find too much exciting… So, in the spirit of this self-congratulatory project, I picked one of my own...
Read moreWow Cool @25 The Reviews Are In 1994
There was a time when hundreds of thousands of printed fanzines were published every single day. These three fondly remembered rags – Factsheet 5, Yakuza (this issue here) and Flipside – gave our catalog glowing reviews. What a...
Read moreWow Cool @25 The Bobby Madness Method 1995
As far as I know this deep examination of the global behemoth that was Wow Cool in the mid-90s by Bobby Madness only ever appeared in one of our monthly wholesale catalogs. Edition of 200 or so. Wow Cool published four issues of Bobby’s Mad...
Read moreWow Cool @25 The New Smile Pad SDCC 1989
Bonus nostalgia content! A peak inside the New Smile Pad that I took to San Diego Comic-Con in 1989. Contributors are – clockwise from the cover: Dan Clowes, Krystine Kryttre, Marc Arsenault, Mark Martin, Ron Turner. Enjoy! “Keep...
Read moreWow Cool Winter 2013 Wholesale Distro List
Hello friend. Do you own a comic book shop or other fine retail operation that sells comic books? Please consider adding the many fine items distributed by Wow Cool to your offerings. If you are already a customer of Tony Shenton‘s...
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