Straight from 23rd Street from over 20 years ago, we present the first in an irregular series of vintage School of Visual Arts cartoon art jams. These will mainly be from the late-80’s crew of people that were affiliated with the popular...
Read moreLost Awesome Book Cover Designs
I’ve been accumulating these for about a year. Various books that were picked up at garage sales and library sales because the cover art was just so great. On all but a couple of them I have to admit that the initial thrill faded over...
Read moreHygienic Vacuum Cleaner Club
Found in an old book at my neighbor’s moving sale.
Read moreBrooklyn Party!
From Benjamin Mara: This Saturday, the 22nd, the fine folks at Bergen Street Comics (www.bergenstreetcomics.com) and I will be having a release party and signing for my recent comic book BENJAMIN MARRA’S THE INCREDIBLY FANTASTIC ADVENTURES...
Read moreMonday Office Playlist
Today I got to shoot some new costumes designed by Nurse Dylan aka Psycho Shango (of Psycho Nurse Calendar fame) that are for the brilliant Breedlove and my fellow Brown Cuts Neighbor Lady Starlight. In the photo studio at Wow Cool we strictly...
Read moreJesse Kimball on Diners, Drive-Ins & Dives
Once upon a time in the early 1990s I got together with a young Hampshire college student and punk rock juggernaut named Jesse Kimball and Western Connecticut ne’er do well Steve Dore (late of Maude, more recently of Casual Dots & Deep...
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Chris Cilla’s Heavy Hand at Exquisite Things
Matt has given the Heavy Hand a really thorough and thoughtful review at the Exquisite Things http://exquisitething.blogspot.com/2011/01/forever-changes-chris-c-cillas-heavy.html (I had accidentally posted another link here, sorry about that.)
Read moreIPRC Comics Program Open Enrollment for Second Semester
Lisa Mangum and I are co-teaching a class called World Comics at the Independent Publishing Resource Center. Annie Murphy and Clio Reese Sady will be teaching Elements of Graphic Narrative. The classes are beginning on January 17th. We’ve...
Read moreOpen During Deconstruction
Please Excuse the mess. Due to some rash clicking and updating, Wow Cool dot com has become even uglier than is usual. All content and functionality should be the same, but the highly refined aesthetics of the site that have been developed over...
Read moreOffset Needle Radius Fionas Week Out-take
Joshua Baker has released a Bonus track from the upcoming Offset Needle Radius release Fiona’s Week (2011, Offset Sounds Vs. Wow Cool). Give a listen below. More info on the ONR Blog. Whatever T.W.T.D by OffsetSound FIONAS WEEK TRACK...
Read moreBrown Cuts Neighbors – X Simple X and More
Mike Nobody has uploaded some vintage 1990s Brown Cuts Neighbors video to his YouTube Channel. First up is the video for X Simple X (above), from 1995’s Squeeze Out Another Twinkle EP on Nose Hair Records. It takes a few seconds for the...
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