As some of you are sure to have noticed, our site was down for about a month, but we’re back with exciting new highlights and books and a faster interface! Over the last two weeks, we’ve been hard at work adding new titles from the past month and beyond. To celebrate our relaunch, we...
Read moreNew Books and Comics: May 18, 2018
Comics highlights this week: Barrier #3 — the stellar new series by Brian K. Vaughan and Marcos Martin (don’t forget pick up issue one and two before they sell out) Ether: The Copper Golems #1 — From Matt Kindt and Black Hammer‘s David Rubín comes this fantasy adventure...
Read moreNew Books and Comics: May 11, 2018
Highlights this week: Barrier #1 and Barrier #2 — the stellar new series by Brian K. Vaughan and Marcos Martin Good News Bible: The Deadline Strips of Shaky Kane collecting the British artist’s work from the classic ’90s magazine Deadline for the first time. Unfinished...
Read moreNew Books and Comics: May 4, 2018
The Wow Cool® Alternative Comics store in Cupertino is having it’s fifth annual Free Comic Book Day event from 10am-7pm tomorrow, Saturday, May 5th. Wow Cool is celebrating the fourth anniversary of the Cupertino store and the 30th anniversary of our founding in New York City in 1988. The sale...
Read moreNew Books and Comics: April 20, 2018
Hot new arrivals this week include the much-talked-about Action Comics #1000 and Black Mask’s Survival Fetish #1 by Patrick Kindlon and Antonio Fuso. We have also added copies of Adrian Tomine‘s Optic Nerve and Junji Ito‘s weird, horror/auto-biographical Cat Diary to our online...
Read moreNew Books and Comics: April 13, 2018
Free Comic Book Day Cupertino is approaching quickly and we’ve been hard at work sorting bargain bins and preparing for the event. In addition to Yancey Labat, artist of DC Super Hero Girls, we are happy to announce two more guest artists will be joining us — alternative cartoonist...
Read moreWow Cool Pull List Now Linked to League of Comic Geeks
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
Read moreHighlight: kuš! komikss – the best small press comics publisher you don’t know about
Yesterday we received a massive spring shipment from acclaimed international small press publisher kuš! (said “koosh!”). The comics art publisher from Latvia was founded in 2007 in Riga. Since then, kuš! has provided a platform for up-and-coming cartoonists from all over the world...
Read moreNew Books and Comics: March 31, 2018
As the month comes to an end, we are getting ready to launch some exciting new April sales and articles and have begun preparation for Free Comic Book Day Cupertino. This past week, we were happy to announce that Yancey Labat, artist of DC Super Hero Girls, will be Wow Cool’s special guest...
Read moreNew Books and Comics: March 23, 2018
It’s been a busy couple of weeks here at Wow Cool as we implement our new point-of-sale system at our Cupertino store and prepare for some exciting new April sales and articles. While we have continued to add dozens of new books and comics to the store, we missed last week’s post, so...
Read moreNew Arrivals March 9
Lots of great stuff this week, notably Eleanor Davis‘ Why Art?, The Dragon Slayer: Folktales from Latin America by Jaime Hernandez, the first issue of Young Animal‘s new Shade the Changing Woman, the rural-mystery/urban-horror mashup Gideon Falls #1 by Jeff Lemire and Andrea...
Read moreNew Arrivals March 2
This week’s highlights include the return of Saga by Brian K. Vaughan and Fiona Stables, the conclusion to Young Animal‘s Milk Wars in Doom Patrol/JLA Special, and the second issue of the popular Black Mask series Calexit. Notable additions to our backlist are a copy of Futurama...
Read moreNew Arrivals February 23
Between this week and last 50+ new books have arrived. Highlights include Secret Loves of Geeks featuring acclaimed dystopian writer Margaret Atwood, Brandon Graham’s Multiple Warheads one-shot concluding the story featured in Island magazine, two comics from the DC/Young Animal crossover...
Read moreHelp Get Mark Campos’ Casino Son Comic Printed
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
Read moreNew Arrivals February 8
Big week for new arrivals here at Wow Cool with books like Inside Moebius, Black Comix Returns, Paper Girls #20 by Brian K. Vaughan and Cliff Chiang, and Image’s new Twisted Romance #1 with art by Katie Skelly. Also this February, you can recieve 10% off your entire online order at...
Read moreNew Books In The Shop February 2
New in the shop this week are Gerard Way‘s Doom Patrol/JLA (which kicks off the Young Animal event Milk Wars), the collection of the acclaimed limited series Godshaper, Sparring With Gil Kane a book collecting decades of interviews with the creator, Blind Justice #2 with art by Noah Van...
Read moreNew Books In The Shop January 26
This week’s new comic highlights include the beautiful Jamie Hewlett art book, the second issue of Fantagraphics’ new anthology Now, and the very, very weird Doom Patrol #10. In other news, Wow Cool has just implemented a 10% discount when you subscribe to six or more current titles...
Read moreNew Arrivals January 19
A new week brings new arrivals and this week the highlights include an archival collection of Jack Kirby’s masterpiece Sky Masters of the Space Force, the third volume of Ed Brubaker and Sean Phillips’ Kill or Be Killed, and sci-fi epic Descender Vol. 5 by Jeff Lemire and Dustin...
Read moreNew Arrivals January 5
Hope everyone had a great New Year! Slow week in comic releases, but we have added Elijah Brubaker’s Reich and a few other goodies. We just migrated to a new faster web server, so the site should be flowing smoother now. New Books This Week New Collections New Backlist Titles
Read moreNew Arrivals December 29
This week’s post is going up a day late because we are in the midst of moving the stock from our former upstairs storage area to the backroom downstairs. If you didn’t already stop by today, the massive 25c bargain bin clearance sale will continue through tomorrow, New Year’s...
Read moreBoxing Day Sale
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...
Read moreNew Arrivals December 21
The books keep showing up at Wow Cool. The following are now in stock online and in the Cupertino shop. We are continuing to add older back issues as well. Highlights this week include the long-awaited X-Men: Grand Design #1, Head Lopper #8 by Andrew MacLean, Joe Kubert’s Sojourn #1, and...
Read moreNew Arrivals December 15
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
Read moreJim Rugg on the AltComics Podcast
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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