One hundred years ago today — October 21, 1923 — the first of what was to be a long tradition in Frank King’s comic strip Gasoline Alley was published. The Autumn Walk. Walt Wallet and his foundling son Skeezix drive out into the country and...
Read moreStephen R. Bissette Takeover
Acclaimed artist, writer, critic, educator, comic book creator — and so much more — Stephen R. Bissette, has been a friend to Wow Cool since our very earliest days in the late 1980s. He was there at our very first comic convention in 1989. After...
Read moreBAD ATTITUDE: The Art of Spain Rodriguez Now Streaming
BAD ATTITUDE: The Art of Spain Rodriguez is an intimate documentary film portrait; and a personal and work biography of the late underground comics legend and San Francisco Mission District hero Manuel “Spain” Rodriguez. Spain was a...
Read moreJean Teulé, we wish you a rapid transit to the Xerox paradise you depicted like no other
There are many artists in Franco/Belgian bande dessinée that are still beyond obscure to American readers. Despite their few opportunities to leak through the existent methods of exposure they have managed to seep through in other ways...
Read moreJoel Orff’s Lost 9-11 Emergency Relief Comic
In early 2002, Alternative Comics published a benefit book for the American Red Cross as part of the relief effort after the events of 9/11/01 in New York City, Washington D.C. and Pennsylvania, where many people lost their lives for reasons that...
Read moreOn CNN’s Boom or Bust 1994
Cable news program talking about how the Baby Busters were going to crack the spines in half of the pathetic and lowly Baby Boomers. Featuring lots of mid nineties zines like Cometbus, King Cat and Dylan Williams Horse. This segment visits the...
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