One hundred years ago today — October 21, 1923 — the first of what was to be a long tradition in Frank King’s comic strip Gasoline Alley was published. The Autumn Walk. Walt Wallet and his foundling son Skeezix drive out into the country and...
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Fionna and Cake Update! As of Thursday, September 28, 2023, the new Max series Adventure Time: Fionna & Cake is now completely available to stream. When we first posted this article on some of the cartoonists who worked on Adventure Time a...
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Out today is the Cornbelt Cupid EP from nickname: Rebel. It’s a new edition of some old 90s East Bay lo-fi punk songs. They are all newly remastered. The second song has never been heard anywhere before. It was originally written and demoed in...
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Acclaimed artist, writer, critic, educator, comic book creator — and so much more — Stephen R. Bissette, has been a friend to Wow Cool since our very earliest days in the late 1980s. He was there at our very first comic convention in 1989. After...
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The Strange Tale of Panorama Island (Panorama-tou Kitan) — Last Gasp, 2013 Now-classic manga novel from Mr. Arashi’s Amazing Freak Show creator Suehiro Maruo echoes the decadent era in which its source story by Hirai Taro (aka ‘Edogawa Rampo’)...
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“Did You Hear What Eric Powell Done?” New graphic novel from Goon creator Eric Powell matches his formidable skills with one of the foremost serial killer biographers to chronicle one of the most infamous crimes of mid-20th century America ...
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BAD ATTITUDE: The Art of Spain Rodriguez is an intimate documentary film portrait; and a personal and work biography of the late underground comics legend and San Francisco Mission District hero Manuel “Spain” Rodriguez. Spain was a...
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A deep dive into the Wow Cool warehouse has unearthed many not-previously-offered-on-this-site comic books and graphic novels that are now available for the first time outside of our old brink and mortar shop. So, you can now stock up on many...
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There are many artists in Franco/Belgian bande dessinée that are still beyond obscure to American readers. Despite their few opportunities to leak through the existent methods of exposure they have managed to seep through in other ways...
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In early 2002, Alternative Comics published a benefit book for the American Red Cross as part of the relief effort after the events of 9/11/01 in New York City, Washington D.C. and Pennsylvania, where many people lost their lives for reasons that...
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“Lost In Thought (with The Linda Lindas & Kathi Wilcox)” is a part of the Erica Dawn Lyle & Vice Cooler album Land Trust: Benefit For The NEFOC. Written & Performed by The Linda Lindas, Kathi Wilcox, Erica Dawn Lyle and...
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A collection of field recordings and field recording based compositions by Marc Arsenault — AKA gritboy — of nickname: Rebel and Brown Cuts Neighbors. Sounds were primarily acquired from 2019 through 2021. Mostly un-touched core samples. But...
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