I was very sad to hear yesterday of the passing of Joe Kubert, one of the true giants of the comics book industry, from near to it’s beginnings until the present day. It’s pretty much impossible to measure the extent of his influence...
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CAROUSEL @ SOLOWAY Friday, August 3, 2012 8:00 pm Soloway presents the latest CAROUSEL, cartoon slide shows created and presented by a wide array of writers, cartoonists, and other characters.Featuring: Gabrielle Bell, Emily Flake, Myla Goldberg...
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New to the Wow Cool shop is Karl Stevens’ excellent LA Times Book Prize nominated book The Lodger. Also available are Karl’s Ignatz award funded debut release Guilty and the Alternative Comics published Whatever. Karl’s Failure...
Read moreTHE PROJECTS: experimental art + comics festival in Portland. A new era for comics art: 3 days of workshops, exhibitions, screenings and collaborative projects with artists from around the world. Oct. 19-21, IPRC (and other venues), Portland, OR...
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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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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...
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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...
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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.
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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...
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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...
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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)...
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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.
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