Launched just now! A FundRazr campaign to preorder the long overdue and never before published Pickle #11 by Dylan Horrocks from Black Eye Press. We are hoping to get some copies in the Wow Cool shop when it comes out, but we fully urge you to support this awesome project directly. Now if we...
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Jack Teagle is a freelance illustrator based in South West England. He has worked in a large variety of fields, including editorial, character design, storyboarding, poster/ product/ textile design, and worked as a cartoonist for Front magazine from 2010-2014. He wrote tutorials and worked as a...
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You visited us for Free Comic Book Day back in May. This event is just like that but with ghosts! It’s a haunted Free Comic Book Day. It’s the Halloween Comic Fest. Wow Cool Alternative Comics is hosting The 2018 Cupertino Halloween Comic Fest from Saturday October 27th through...
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Winners will be announced at the 30th Anniversary Celebration on October 5th during ReedPOP’s New York Comic Con NEW YORK, NY – August XX, 2018 – The Harvey Awards today revealed the nominees and new categories debuting at the 30th anniversary celebration of the awards. The new award categories...
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Today at San Diego Comic-Con International, Drawn & Quarterly announced the acquisition of numerous new titles, including fall 2019 releases of Making Comics by Lynda Barry and the first volume in a landmark English-language series by beloved Garo cartoonist Yoshiharu Tsuge as well graphic...
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Meet the acclaimed artist of Congressman John Lewis’ autobiographic graphic novel of the civil rights movement — March. He will be talking about his work and career, answering questions and signing copies of his books. His latest—Come Again—is One of Publishers Weekly‘s “Top 10...
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We’re not sure what “An entire universe. Once and for all. #InfinityWar” actually means, but we are sure excited to see the latest Marvel movie. Hopefully the mystery of how Black Widow went from ginger to blonde will be resolved. Everyone is in it. What do we mean by everyone?...
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Free Comic Book Day is Saturday May 6th! The Wow Cool® Alternative Comics store in Cupertino is having it’s fourth annual Free Comic Book Day event from 10am-7pm on Saturday, May 6th. There will be tons of free comics for kids and adults, arts and crafts activities for kids, a lemonade stand...
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This is The Challenge – Record an album in 28 days, just because you can. That’s 10 songs or 35 minutes of original material recorded during the month of February. More information | Register It’s a little like National Novel Writing Month, (NaNoWriMo.org) where writers challenge each...
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Wow Cool Alternative Comics is having a big boxing week sale. 20% off everything in the Cupertino and Online Wow Cool shops Every order completed from Noon Monday, December 26 through Midnight Saturday, December 31st will be discounted 20%. Discount is applied when you add items to your cart...
Read moreIt’s been a pretty good year for new music. Here’s the latest. But it is stranger than you think. Mister Richard D. James is about to drop a new record in all the popular formats (including a limited cassette – 2000 copies). It’s called Cheetah. It’s an Aphex Twin...
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Malachi Ward will be doing a Bay Area Double Header this Saturday, May 14th from 7pm. He will be signing copies of his brand new books From Now On (Alternative Comics) and Island #7 (Image Comics) at Mission Comics in San Francisco at 1PM and at our home base in Cupertino from around 7pm. There...
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The Wow Cool® Alternative Comics store in Cupertino is having it’s third annual Free Comic Book Day event from 10am-7pm on Saturday, May 7th. There will be tons of free comics for kids and adults, arts and crafts activities for kids, a lemonade stand, a voter registration booth, and everything...
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It’s been a year long wait since the last issue of Sam Henderson’s Magic Whistle. You pick up the latest edition at your local comic book shop. It’s the same basic size. It costs a dollar more. There are many more pages and artists in it then last time… but something is...
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Cyber 2 Days Sale at Wow Cool Alternative Comics Every order from Wow Cool.com completed from Noon Monday, November 30th through Midnight Tuesday evening, December 1st pacific time will be discounted 20%. Discount is applied when you add items to your cart. Dozens of already discounted items...
Read more“theme for counting events” by Steven Cerio /Magnificent Pigtail Shadow original film soundtrack (wow cool) from Steven Cerio on Vimeo. A video filmed/edited by artsist/filmmaker Steven Cerio to promote WOWCOOL.com’s upcoming cd and download release of the soundtrack he...
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New in the shop this week: Wuvable Oaf by Ed Luce, Pope Hats #4 by Ethan Rilly and the first issue of Alan Moore’s new series Providence. New last week Giant Day’s #3, Optic Nerve #14. Get them in our Cupertino store or online at https://wowcool.com?
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The Wow Cool® Alternative Comics store in Cupertino is having it’s second annual Free Comic Book Day event from 10am-7pm on Saturday, May 2nd. There will be tons of free comics for kids and adults, arts and crafts activities for kids, a lemonade stand, and everything in the store will be...
Read moreChainmail Bikini is an anthology of comics by and about female gamers! 40 cartoonists have contributed 200+ pages of all new stories about the games they’re passionate about—from video games to table-top role-playing to collectible card games. Help us pay for the printing costs and reward...
Read moreTheory of Obscurity – Teaser Trailer #1 from Don Hardy on Vimeo. Theory of Obscurity, the definitive film documentary of San Fransisco-based art/music/performance group The Residents is debuting at South By Southwest in March, and is already making peoples top five lists, like here in...
Read moreIt is very likely that I would not be working in comics now without the influence of Raoul Vezina, the creator of the classic four issue series of Smilin’ Ed Smiley comics that were released more than 30 years ago. Raoul was also the front counter guy at Albany, New York’s Fanta Co...
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I went to SPX 2014 and all I got were these seven crappy phone photos, a Hidden Fortress T-Shirt and the new Charles Burns book (signed, with the numbered bookplate and the paper mask). I picked up a ton of new books from various parts of the show for the Wow Cool shop. We expect
Read moreSparkplug Books needs your help to publish their next two books: Reich #12 by Elijah Brubaker and Vortex by William Cardini. That’s all you should need to know. Go on, get to it. Get over to Kickstarter and give Sparkplug lots of money!
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