“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 Vice Cooler. Directed & Edited by Vice...
Read moreAlan Moore’s The Show is Happening Now
The long-awaited feature film scripted and guided by the Mage of Northampton Alan Moore is finally here on digital rental and download. The Show is live, and you are invited! DVD and Blu-Ray are expected in November. Tom Burke (Orson Welles in Netflix’s “Mank”) stars as private...
Read moreFirst Look at Neil Gaiman’s The Sandman on Netflix
News continues to emerge from The Dreaming on the forthcoming epic Netflix adaptation of Neil Gaiman and company’s Sandman series of comics and graphic novels. There is now an official preview of Season 1, Episode 1. The Sandman is expected from Netflix in spring 2022. The voice speaking belongs...
Read moreCowboy Bebop Opening Credits Released by Netflix
And yes, it’s got Ein in it. That’s all I cared about too… It debuts on Netflix November 16. Cowboy Bebop’s bounty hunters are on the run again in this live-action series. Spike Spiegel is played by John Cho (Star Trek, Harold and Kumar), Jet Black is a breakout role for Mustafa...
Read moreThe Musical Legacy of James Kopta
I lost my great friend and long-time collaborator in Brown Cuts Neighbors and other art, music and writing projects — James Kopta — 19 years ago today. He was only 30. Not a day goes by where I do not miss sitting in a Schenectady restaurant somewhere in the vicinity of the old Stockade, plates...
Read moreJason Martin New Adirondack Power and Light Out Now
Jason “Wolfman” Martin of Brown Cuts Neighbors, The Bunny Brains, Evolution Revolution and Power Animal Systems has a new solo record on the way — The New Adirondack Power and Light. You can get a special digital preview on Bandcamp right now. Full release on limited edition cassette...
Read moreSteven Cerio talks The Residents on ResTube
“Steven Cerio, the wonderfully trippy and inspired artist, author, musician and filmmaker tells us how he discovered the group, what his favorite projects are, what techniques he uses and even answers the question: Who are the Residents?!!?!” ResTube is a pretty recently...
Read morePlay for It: Down the Gerbil Hole with Chester Brown in Videos
Chester Brown thrilled and shocked indie comics audiences when he emerged from the English-speaking slums of Montreal in the mid-1980s. He has left behind him a slimy ink trail like few others. Travel with us back in time through the video legacy of his reign of carnage. Paying For It Cartoonist...
Read moreBrown Cuts Neighbors – Some People Say I’m Building You A Nest – Live at Cafe Hollywood, Albany 1999
BCN Reinterprets the closing track from their 1990 EP Broken Down Like A Bean on Wow Cool Records. The band are Jason ‘Wolfman’ Martin (drums, vocals), James Kopta as Fat Ivory Monkey (lead guitar, keyboard) and Marc Arsenault as Phil Derbman (rhythm guitar, sound effects). This show...
Read moreLost Landscapes of San Francisco | December 16
Last year I was very fortunate to be able to attend a one-of-a-kind cinema event. Lost Landscapes of San Francisco by Rick Prelinger at the Castro Theatre in San Francisco. The carefully curated presentation of mostly home movies dating back over a century has its soundtrack provided by the...
Read more2019 Year In Review
It has certainly been a tumultuous year here at Wow Cool. Not least of all because the physical “here” has changed. Sadly the Wow Cool Alternative Comics physical shop in Cupertino, California closed its doors after six great years. We also left the offices that we had been in for...
Read moreNew Short Film About Extinction Rebellion
Decades of inadequate political action have led to a climate and ecological emergency that poses an unprecedented existential threat to humanity and all life on Earth — “politics as usual” will not meet the challenge we face. This new film with an exclusive soundtrack from Massive Attack...
Read moreYou’ve Seen Love Death And Robots, Right?
Sentient dairy products, werewolf soldiers, robots gone wild, garbage monsters, cyborg bounty hunters, alien spiders and blood-thirsty demons from hell – all converge in eighteen NSFW animated stories. Presented by Tim Miller (Deadpool, Terminator: Dark Fate) & David Fincher (Fight...
Read moreGood Omens Official Trailer Released
With Armageddon just days away, the armies of Heaven and Hell are amassing and The Four Horsemen are ready to ride. Aziraphale, an angel, and Crowley, a demon, agree to join forces to find the missing Anti-Christ and to stop the war that will end everything. Based on the best-selling novel by...
Read moreNew on Wow Cool
In like a lion! The big news this week is that we have added Zippy the Pinhead by Bill Griffith to the site. Read it everyday in full color. Strips are archived for two weeks. We also have many new reviews, features & new books, comics and zines. Recent posts on Wow Cool Preorder Dylan...
Read moreLinks Keep Tumbling Down
It’s been a couple of months since the last installment of the ‘something good to read on a Sunday’ linkdown bonanza. We’ll see how far we can get down the accumulated backlog of goodness assembled in that interim. How far down the rabbit hole can you go? Art: A Hundred...
Read moreGood Omens Opening Titles Revealed
The title sequence for Good Omens has been revealed. Show-runner Neil Gaiman describes it as “A little bit Edward Gorey, a little bit Garden of Earthly Delights.” This unlikely duo has no time to waste. Good Omens debuts May 31 only on Amazon Prime Video. The end is nigh. Based on...
Read moreHappy Birthday Grant Morrison!
Thee Glaswegian wizard writer turns 59 today. Grant Morrison, MBE is a Scottish comic book writer and playwright. He is known for his nonlinear narratives and countercultural leanings in his runs on titles including DC Comics’s Animal Man, Batman, JLA, Action Comics, All-Star Superman...
Read moreWelcome to the Show It is Starting Now
I’m not going to hold your hand on these. It’s been a long week. Go click some links and stare at some stuff. Stop by my shop later today and we can chew the fat about it. Tempeh if you’re vegan. Firstly: Variety has A First Look at: Alan Moore’s ‘The Show,’ Starring Tom Burke...
Read moreSunday in the Shed with Marc
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 eye this past week. You might like it too. Art...
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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 Introduction to Southeast Asian Post-Rock and Math...
Read moreLink Hustler
Art We have been surveying the comics works of Eleanor Davis the past few weeks through the eyes of new regular reviewer Rob Clough. The Comics Reporter pointed us towards the archive of Eleanor’s contributions to Psychology Today. Check those out. it is worth the extra click-through...
Read moreSunday Night Links X2
After a stellar track record of getting the link-down posted every week, we missed last Sunday. Now we is back with an epic collection of linkages to fab and funky art, music and thee videos. Art A long time friend to Wow Cool and Sparkplug Books – Gabrielle Gamboa has recently posted...
Read moreSunday Go To Meeting Links
Art Matt Seneca dives into Barry Windsor-Smith’s Weapon X—the ultra violent re-imagining of Marvel’s Logan/Wolverine’s ‘origin’ story—at the Comics Journal. The Black Panther Party wasn’t just happening in Oakland some 50 yers ago. Not even just in the US...
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