Wow Cool got a whole page in the old small press comics tabloid Comics F/X back in July 1989. The man incorrectly identified as Marc is actually the sculptor Paul Komoda. Sam cleverly altered minor details of Wow Cool history to protect the...
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We just got a new scanner here in Wow Cool land, and instead of picking some stunning and masterful piece of art, I chose this crappy jam comic from long ago. Phil Felix stopped by Harvey Kurtzman’s class at the School of Visual Arts (SVA)...
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Tom Hart did this strip and another one about zen for me when I was the comics editor at the School of Visual Arts newspaper – Canvas – way back in 1988. So, not technically a Wow Cool thing… also it’s a bit of an in-joke...
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Sam Henderson drew this back when Beverly Hills 90210 was still pretty new. 20+ years later it’s relevant again! What a world! I don’t remember where – if anywhere – this was ever published before. Sam? I’ve started...
Read moreMy former studio mate at the School of Visual Arts, co-founder of Wow Cool – back in 1988, and Chieftain (as he likes to be called) at Alternative Comics, Tom Hart is just barely a year in as the director of the Sequential Artists Workshop...
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Wow Cool was paid a visit by CNN in mid-1994 for a feature on the venomous werewolves of Generation X and their sinister plan to devour the sad old hippies and their filth. It was called Boom or Bust? and originally aired on Sunday, August 14...
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I spent a little while today digging through the archives trying to find something cool to post from our rich history… didn’t find too much exciting… So, in the spirit of this self-congratulatory project, I picked one of my own...
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There was a time when hundreds of thousands of printed fanzines were published every single day. These three fondly remembered rags – Factsheet 5, Yakuza (this issue here) and Flipside – gave our catalog glowing reviews. What a...
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As far as I know this deep examination of the global behemoth that was Wow Cool in the mid-90s by Bobby Madness only ever appeared in one of our monthly wholesale catalogs. Edition of 200 or so. Wow Cool published four issues of Bobby’s Mad...
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Bonus nostalgia content! A peak inside the New Smile Pad that I took to San Diego Comic-Con in 1989. Contributors are – clockwise from the cover: Dan Clowes, Krystine Kryttre, Marc Arsenault, Mark Martin, Ron Turner. Enjoy! “Keep...
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Once upon a time in the mid-1990s Wow Cool was an active distributor of zines and independent comic books to retail markets. Apart from the indie-friendly comic books shops, many of our clients were cafes, regular bookstores and record shops...
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This is the first item in our nostalgic look back that has a serious cringe element for me. The first couple of posts were not really my work. This one is another story. The very first Wow Cool mailorder catalog is a spectacular mess on the...
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