An unholy host of New York City-type cartoon art guys (and a couple others and at least one gal), many of whom have been or are currently published or distributed by Wow Cool (and nearly all the rest are old friends from SVA, minicomics or the...
Read moreArt of Zines Show at Anno Domini Announced
Get on down to the glorious DTSJ (that’s Down Town San Jose, folks) for the South First Friday art walk this coming February 5th; and, do not fail to stop in at Anno Domini for their Art of Zines show. Wow Cool will be at a table there...
Read moreA Repo Chick gets INTO tense situations
I was sent a link to iO9’s write-up of Alex Cox’s recent Non-Sequel to his classic Repo Man film today by my nickname: Rebel cohort Michael Keegan. It was too early in the day to absorb. This was the first I had heard of any such sort...
Read moreSupport Disaster Relief in Haiti
U.S. President Obama signed a bill into law today that allows American taxpayers to deduct contributions made to relief in Haiti before March 1, 2010 on their 2009 tax return. So, you really have no excuse not to help out now. Wow Cool endorses...
Read moreRob Clough reviews Big Plans 4
Yesterday Rob CLough posted this review of Big Plans 4 at The Comics Journal. This is one of the more interesting reviews I’ve read about my work.
Read moreNEWAVE! Underground Mini Comix Book Release Event
It’s Official! Fantagraphics Bookstore & Gallery in Seattle, Washington will be hosting a release party for this massive brick of a book on January 30, 2010. The event marks the debut of their new Spectacular Saturday series. The show...
Read moreGumby Discovers that the Blockheads never read Silent Spring
This is the video I was looking for a few days ago. A lesson for me in not relying on YouTube. Gumby puts the kibosh on the blockheads latest evil scheme, a pesticide protection racket, that has the worms up in arms and gasmasks, even. Available...
Read moreHappy 69th Birthday to Don Van Vliet!!!
Yes, Captain Beefheart himself is 69 today. It’s no secret that he’s popular in the house of Wow Cool. Just released from Proper Records is the long-awaited biography by long-time Magic Band member and arranger John (Drumbo) French...
Read moreArt Clokey was fucking awesome
I couldn’t find any clips on YouTube that really fit with what I would have liked to have shown in memory of the great Art Clokey, creator of Gumby and Davey and Goliath, so I picked this video of Lightning Bolt’s 13 Monsters by Paper...
Read moreSan Jose Comics Fest this week end.
Slave Labour is hosting a show in San Jose this weeked. And being the nice folks they are they’ve made some room for Sparkplug. I’m going to go along with old friend Landry Walker. Susie Cagle and Eric Searleman (one of my favorite...
Read moreVideo preview of NEWAVE! The Underground Minicomics of the ’80s Book
More previews and info on Fantagraphics site. Get yours today! Newave!: The Underground Mini Comix of the 1980s.
Read moreSonic Warfare: Sound, Affect, and the Ecology of Fear
This is the one book about sound you must read this year. I’ve been waiting for something like this for years and for this book since July. Steve Goodman, better known to the world as Kode9 of Hyperdub Records, delves into how sound has...
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