Malachi Ward will be doing a Bay Area Double Header this Saturday, May 14th from 7pm. He will be signing copies of his brand new books From Now On (Alternative Comics) and Island #7 (Image Comics) at Mission Comics in San Francisco at 1PM and at...
Read moreZak Sally is creating A Comic Book Biography of Philip K. Dick and He Needs Your Support
PKD by Zak Sally from zak sally on Vimeo. Zak Sally has been many things over the years… an artist, a musician, a publisher at La Mano 21, a printer, the cover model for Peter Bagge’s Hate, a roadie for Wow Cool… OK, that last...
Read moreWednesday is New Comics Day May 11, 2016
Today is Wednesday, May 11th and we have a ton of new books for you. We are now officially open until 7pm at the Cupertino shop; and, will start staying open until 8pm on Wednesdays in June. Recent issues of comics from the past year are now...
Read moreSo, Free Comic Book Day Happened
That was quite a day. We are still recovering from our third Free Comic Book Day event at the Wow Cool Alternative Comics shop in Cupertino on Saturday. This was our biggest ever. More books, more people, more cookies and lemonade… More...
Read moreFree Comic Book Day Sale and Yancey Labat Artist Signing This Saturday
The Wow Cool® Alternative Comics store in Cupertino is having it’s third annual Free Comic Book Day event from 10am-7pm on Saturday, May 7th. There will be tons of free comics for kids and adults, arts and crafts activities for kids, a lemonade...
Read moreThe Magic Whistle By Sam Henderson
Tons of New Books In the Wow Cool Shop
We have added hundred of new books to our online and Cupertino stores. Here’s just a recent selection. Wow Cool has been doing a massive re-cataloging of our inventory — new and re-stocked items are being added every day. New books arrive...
Read moreJack Kirby | Thor | Parallax View
A series of frames from the Parallax Corporation training montage from the 1974 Alan J. Pakula film The Parallax View. “The montage also uses a drawing by Jack Kirby of the Marvel Comics character Thor. The drawing is a cropped image from...
Read moreAlvin is gone
I lost a one-time bandmate the other day and comics lost one of its greatest champions. I’m still confused and shocked by the news. I rarely had the opportunity to just talk casually to Alvin Buenaventura away from something else going on...
Read moreTwo or Three Things I Know About Her
Five Frames from Jean Luc Godard’s 1967 film presented on tumblr in sequence. http://gritboy.tumblr.com/post/139220584708/two-or-three-things-i-know-about-her-jean-luc
Read moreMagic Whistle 3.0 Sketch Variant Edition
It’s been a year long wait since the last issue of Sam Henderson’s Magic Whistle. You pick up the latest edition at your local comic book shop. It’s the same basic size. It costs a dollar more. There are many more pages and...
Read moreWow Cool 2-Day Cyber Sale
Cyber 2 Days Sale at Wow Cool Alternative Comics Every order from Wow Cool.com completed from Noon Monday, November 30th through Midnight Tuesday evening, December 1st pacific time will be discounted 20%. Discount is applied when you add items to...
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