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 moreMeet The Artists of Adventure Time
Fionna and Cake Update! As of Thursday, September 28, 2023, the new Max series Adventure Time: Fionna & Cake is now completely available to stream. When we first posted this article on some of the cartoonists who worked on Adventure Time a...
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 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 moreAudio Management Unit – New LP from Marc Arsenault out today
A collection of field recordings and field recording based compositions by Marc Arsenault — AKA gritboy — of nickname: Rebel and Brown Cuts Neighbors. Sounds were primarily acquired from 2019 through 2021. Mostly un-touched core samples. But...
Read moregritboy – ‘intanaquaninte’ Single Out Today on Wow Cool
Two gritboy singles in two weeks after 3 years of nothing? A yup! Out today for streaming and download in all the usual places is a new release by gritboy, AKA Marc Arsenault. Intanaquaninte synthesizes – so to speak – all, or at...
Read moregritboy – ‘Amen Tango’ Single Out Now on Wow Cool
Out today for streaming and download in all the usual places is a new release by gritboy, AKA Marc Arsenault. Amen Tango is a drum and bass marathon… No breaks for 11 long minutes. Originally one of many sketches, this is one that was...
Read moreWill Eisner Sequential Art at SVA
Introduction to The Course. This was the 1988 version of the handout given to new students in Will Eisner’s Sequential Art class at The School of Visual Arts (SVA) on 23rd Street in New York City . This happens to be scanned from Sam...
Read moreCMY OK – Eclipse Comics Color Chart 1983
Inspired by a series of posts by the artist José Villarrubia under the title “From a colorist’s perspective,” I promised myself I would scan and post some vintage comic coloring-related artifacts that I have. The first, and...
Read moreThe Amazing Spider-Man Comic Strip Says Goodnight
Sunday March 17 2019, saw the last Sunday installment of the 42-year long run of the syndicated Marvel Comics’ Amazing Spider-Man comic strip. The last daily strip was published on Saturday, March 23. Creators Alex Saviuk and ghost writer...
Read moreMaximum RockNRoll To Cease Print Publication
Seen Sunday on MRR’s Instagram account and then circulated elsewhere. Wow Cool has been an occasional stockist of Maximum RockNRoll at various times through the years (and still are Right Now!), we were an advertiser for a chunk of the 90s...
Read moreSoFA South First Fridays Art Walk August 3rd 2018
Team Wow Cool made the trip to DTSJ – Downtown San Jose, specifically to SoFA (South of First Area. What? Really, that’s what it stands for?) for the South First Fridays Art Walk last night. The event skipped July, so this was sort of...
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