The latest issue of Maximum RockNRoll will be on newsstands any day now. It contains the expanded print version of the memoriam of Ramones creative director Arturo Vega that I put together with Punk Magazine guy John Holmstrom and photographer...
Read moreJack Kirby Two Page Spreads
All you need to look at right now. This is it. This is it. Get on the glory boat with this glorious photo set on flickr. Bonus bit: Check out this conversation between Jack Kirby and Carmine Infantino.
Read moreI Can’t Imagine A World Without Kim Thompson
I seriously can’t I cannot imagine a world that does not have Kim Thompson in it. One of my longest continuos professional relationships in the strange world of American comic books has suddenly come to an end. Nothing I can do about it. A...
Read moreHelp Complete Alan Moore’s Jimmy’s End Film Cycle
Alan Moore and Mitch Jenkins have turned to Kickstarter to fund the final chapter of five in their film cycle Jimmy’s End. “His Heavy Heart” is in need of £45,000 to complete filming. £30 (currently about $47) appears to me to...
Read moreMaurice Sendak’s Bumble Ardy on Sesame Street
I surely saw this many times on Sesame Street, but have no memory of it. Maurice Sendak would have been 85 today, as Google reminds us with their somewhat dodgy doodle today. Sendak was the featured interview subject of the most recent print...
Read moreJuxtapoz #149 Beastie Boys: A Visual History + Tribute to MCA
I think that’s pretty self-explanatory. You need this. Go get it now from the Wow Cool shop.
Read more33.3 Joy Division – Les Bains Douches Dec 1979
Ian Curtis, the lead singer of Joy Division, died by his own hand some 33 years and 3 days ago. The recording above (from 18th December 1979: Les Bains Douches, Paris), which I’d never encountered before this evening, sounds – to my...
Read moreWow Cool Comics Order reviews by comicKkrakK
I was looking for links related to Jonny Negron, when I stumbled upon these two unexpected gems. Our customer comicKkrakK has reviewed at great length and depth his experiences with ordering comics from Wow Cool. He seems pleased. Thanks Mr...
Read moreGuy Debord Was My Landlord
“The art of the future will be the creation of situations or nothing”. Go watch “On the Passage of a few People through a Rather Brief Moment in Time: The Situationist International 1956-1972” Hopefully the audio will be...
Read moreGabrielle Drake in JG Ballard’s Crash 1971
Moving together through an elaborately signaled landscape. See Previous.
Read moreA Bill of Rights For Comics Creators
Nearly 25 years ago Scott McCloud – creator of Zot! and Understanding Comics – composed a draft of a Creators Bill of Rights for comic book artists. In recognition of World Intellectual Property Day we reproduce it here, and ask, have...
Read moreJohn le Carré’s A Delicate Truth
The new novel by John le Carré is out in much of the world today. Available in the US and Canada on May seventh. Dedicated visitors to this site will immediately know that this much tape player porn makes our boy parts excited.
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