It’s February! Wow! Month will be over soon and it’s barely started. We’ve got a few new books for you to enjoy, from Umbrella Academy to the latest Narwhal & Jelly adventure. A few old gems have been polished up and added to the shop as well. Things were a little slow...
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Hello! It is still January 2019 it seems, and we have a bunch of updates since our last check in a couple weeks ago. New reviews, new books and a new free digital comic from Sparkplug Books. Wow Cool will be up at the Foster City Library on Saturday February 2nd for the PLCAF Expo.
Read moreWelcome 2019 With Some New Reads
OK, that little holiday break thing is past us now and we’ve got a few treats for you old and new. We are also still taking pre-orders on Rad Erwank/Conspiracy Dog. As you may have heard, online social networks have been a bit of a rats nest in recent times. After reviewing our main image...
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We are taking things easy this week as there appears to be a particularly popular holiday happening. Nonetheless there are new books. And new old books. We are also still taking pre-orders on Rad Erwank/Conspiracy Dog. Wow Cool will be exhibiting at the PLCAF Small Press Comics Expo presented...
Read moreWow Cool Round-Up: New Books and Comics for December 7, 2018
Take a look at the new books and comics from the first week of December. Coming this February from Alternative Comics is Rad Erwank & Conspiracy Dog by Lukasz Kowalczuk, Kek-W & Jack Teagle. It is available for exclusive pre-order from WowCool.com at a special discount price. Recent...
Read moreWow Cool Round-Up: New Books and Comics for November, 2018
This past month at Wow Cool we have been hard at work migrating the site to a faster server and doing a ton of housecleaning on WowCool.com. If you poke around enough you may notice a few other new additions as well. Coming this February from Alternative Comics is Rad Erwank & Conspiracy...
Read moreWow Cool Round-Up: New Books and Comics for November 2, 2018
There are over 100 new items on WowCool.com! Browse books, comics, and records from the month of October. This week’s highlights: Fante Bukowski Three: A Perfect Failure and One Dirty Tree by Noah Van Sciver — two new graphic novels by comics superstar NVS exploring literary...
Read moreWow Cool Anniversary Sale & New Comics for October 7, 2018
Wow Cool is 30 years old. Founded by Sam Henderson, Tom Hart and Marc Arsenault at the School of Visual Arts dorms in 1988, it is now a bookstore, publisher, distributor & music label. To celebrate we are offering 30% off everything in our store through the end of the week. Use coupon code...
Read moreWow Cool Round-Up: New Books and Comics September 20, 2018
This week’s headlines: Franchise Lost: Eleanor Davis’ The Secret Science Alliance Link Hustler This week’s highlights: Descender Vol. 6: The Machine War — the final chapter of Jeff Lemire and Dustin Nguyen’s acclaimed sci-fi saga (but not the end of the universe...
Read moreWow Cool Round-Up: New Books and Comics September 14, 2018
Check out this week’s articles and browse the new books at Wow Cool from the last couple of weeks! Derf’s True Stories #4 — the last issue in the series — is available for pre-order until Monday at a discounted price. The comic will debut at Small Press Expo 2018 this...
Read moreNew Books at Wow Cool for August 24th 2018
We have had a seriously busy couple weeks, not least of all because of our big event last week with March artist and Come Again author Nate Powell. He left us a few signed editions of his books. If you are interested in grabbing one, stop by the shop or call. After Labor Day they
Read moreWow Cool Round-Up: New Books and Comics August 8, 2018
Check out some of this week’s content and browse our new books! We are super happy to welcome new regular book reviewer Rob Clough to Wow Cool. He’s starting out this week with Mimi Pond’s double shot of diner fare in Over Easy and The Customer is Always Wrong. This...
Read moreWow Cool Round-Up: New Books and Comics — August 3, 2018
Check out some of this week’s content and browse our new books! This week’s headlines: Tom Hart is creating and teaching comics on Patreon Something Good To Read On A Sunday for July 29th Nate Powell talk and signing for Come Again August 16 This week’s highlights...
Read moreWow Cool Round-Up: New Books and Comics — July 28, 2018
Check out some of this week’s content and browse our new books! This week’s headlines: Tom Hart is creating and teaching comics on Patreon Something Good To Read On A Sunday for July 22nd — Hungry Ghosts Nate Powell talk and signing for Come Again August 16 This week’s...
Read moreWow Cool Round-Up: New Books and Comics — July 20, 2018
WowCool.com is back on its feet with regular articles, blog posts, and news updates. Check out some of this week’s content and browse our new books! This week’s headlines: Meet Jim Starlin – The Infinity Architect Something Good To Read On A Sunday for July 15th D+Q announces 2019...
Read moreWebsite Relaunch, 20% Off Sale, and New Arrivals
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 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...
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