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...
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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...
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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...
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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
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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
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