Once upon a time in the mid-1990s Wow Cool was an active distributor of zines and independent comic books to retail markets. Apart from the indie-friendly comic books shops, many of our clients were cafes, regular bookstores and record shops...
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This is the first item in our nostalgic look back that has a serious cringe element for me. The first couple of posts were not really my work. This one is another story. The very first Wow Cool mailorder catalog is a spectacular mess on the...
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Just added to the Wow Cool shop are four new titles from Hic & Hoc Publications: Abzernad by DW, Three Stories by Ian Andersen, Looking Out by Philippa Rice (shown above) and the third installment of Pat Aulisio’s Bowman series –...
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Tuna Casserole #1, January 1988. Edited and published by Sam Henderson and Tom Hart. This is a scan of the original paste-up boards. Contributing artists included Rob Schreiber, Brett Bondar, Bob Guglielmo, Joe Walden, Ted Bolman, Mikko Meronen...
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Happy birthday to us! Sometime in 1988 the editorial crew behind School of Visual Arts off-Campus publication Tuna Casserole changed it’s name from The Art Dicks to Wow Cool. Tuna Casserole was launched by Sam Henderson and Tom Hart in the...
Read moreYes, it is for December. Magic Whistle #12 still needs more loving homes.
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New Zealand animator and illustrator Karl Wills has brought his clean lined champion Princess Seppuku to America and Wow Cool has her. The first two comics in the series are available now at a special introductory price while supplies last. Book...
Read moreCourtesy of Sam Henderson and The Magic Whistle.
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Keiji Nakazawa, creator of the semi-autobiographicsl ten volume Hadashi no Gen (Barefoot Gen) manga series about the atomic bombing of Hiroshima and the aftermath has died at 73. I picked up a copy of his shorter I Saw It comic when I was 14. It...
Read moreThe creator of the Thunderbirds has left the planet. All you need to know about the worlds Gerry and his wife Sylvia created can be found on the Fanderson site.
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Joe Strummer passed away ten years ago today. He died suddenly, the victim of an undiagnosed congenital heart defect. He would have been sixty years old now had he skipped that one. Hellcat Records recently reissued the three classic releases he...
Read moreI don’t know that I’ve seen all this easily linked to in one place. Dr. & Quinch and Bojeffries Saga creator Alan Moore has been in and about the news just a bit of late. Most significantly: the website JimmysEnd.com has been...
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