Tom Hart – creator of Hutch Owens and founder and executive director of the Sequential Artists Workshop – has sent us a small stack of the first two issues of his ongoing series “RL”, his loving memory of his...
Read moreOnce upon a time in the early 1980s in Austin, Texas, one of the best fucking bands in creation was born. They were called the Big Boys and they are still awesome. Apparently I’m not the only person who believes this, as their first record...
Read moreBlack Eye number one was a sellout success, and now the sequel is nearly ready to drop into your lap. Editor Ryan Standfest needs your help to make it happen. Artists in this edition include Michael DeForge, Brecht Evans, Max Clotfelter, Danny...
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St. Louis, Missouri’s Euclid Records is moving from 601 E. Lockwood to 19 N. Gore and are documenting the process on a blog. You must go look. We thought we had problems when we moved 25 pallet-loads of Alternative Comics books here. This...
Read moreIn case you were wondering what all that spaceyship stuff on Google today is about. Douglas Adams, the creator of The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy is not 61 years old today, he’s over a decade deceased, and we are much poorer for...
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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 moreThe always great Adam Curtis has begun a new series on his BBC blog with “YOU THINK YOU ARE A CONSUMER BUT MAYBE YOU HAVE BEEN CONSUMED“. This first installment focusses on the father of the modern american right – one time...
Read moreSteve Ditko’s longtime publisher Robin Snyder needs your help to publish The Ditko Public Service Package #2 A 112 page, black-and-white collection of Ditko’s recent comics. “This is the 2nd edition of this book and a sequel to...
Read moreMy son recently informed me that he wished to learn more about Fiction Science. “Science Fiction?”, I asked. “Yes, that!” After a few weeks of exploring what it was exactly he was interested in learning about Fiction...
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Steven Cerio will be presenting his film The Magnificent Pigtail Shadow at two events in New England this weekend – first, at the Jack Kerouac Literary Festival in Lowell, Massachusetts on Friday. Steven will also read from KEROUAC’s...
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Sal Canzonieri has released the first volume in his A Fistful of Rock & Roll Art Books series – From Here to There and Back Again: 100 Years of Rock Art Influences – and I strongly urge you to pick it up. A quick look at the...
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