It is interesting to consider what Annie Goetzinger, “la grande dame de la bande dessinée”, chose as the last two projects of her life. After many years serving as the illustrator for most of her projects, she wrote and drew her last...
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It’s a serious blurring of genres and mediums this time ’round. Much of it is an act of refusal and revolt and shear disgust. You’ll be seeing more of that, in lots of places. Anyway, here’s the cool crap that caught my...
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Something I’ve noticed as a recent trend in comics is a style that somewhat trades in primitivism or outsider art on the surface, but in reality is a sophisticated integration of word and text. The plastic qualities of text are not...
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Take a look at the new books and comics from the first week of December. Coming this February from Alternative Comics is Rad Erwank & Conspiracy Dog by Lukasz Kowalczuk, Kek-W & Jack Teagle. It is available for exclusive pre-order from...
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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...
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Art THE WORLD OF UPA will be a three-part film essay series that tells the story of the rebels who made animation grow up. Presented by The Royal Ocean Film Society. This appears to be part one: Music Check out this feature on Bandcamp: A Brief...
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This past month at Wow Cool we have been hard at work migrating the site to a faster server and doing a ton of housecleaning on WowCool.com. If you poke around enough you may notice a few other new additions as well. Coming this February from...
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Eleanor Davis’ first book was Stinky, which was released in 2008 by Toon Books. It won a number of awards and deservedly so, because it’s brilliant on any number of levels. What’s interesting about her kids’ and YA books...
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Revisiting another Sparkplug classic, here’s my original review of Julia Gfrörer’s debut book, Flesh and Bone, from 2010. Julia Gfrörer’s Flesh And Bone takes fairy-tale and folk legend tropes and both turns them on their heads...
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There are over 100 new items on WowCool.com! Browse books, comics, and records from the month of October. This week’s highlights: Fante Bukowski Three: A Perfect Failure and One Dirty Tree by Noah Van Sciver — two new graphic novels...
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Writing a children’s book that both children and adults can enjoy is a tricky proposition. Aim too far over a kid’s head to reach an adult, and you risk alienating the target audience. (And at $12.95 a pop, this is an expensive risk...
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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...
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