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...
Read moreWhirlwind Wonderland makes the cut!
Chris Mautner rates Rina Ayuyang’s Whirlwind Wonderland as one of the six most criminally ignored books of 2010. It is currently available from Diamond comics and your local comic stores too!...
Read moreSparkplug comics in Diamond Preview this month!
Four Sparkplug books are listed on page 308 of Diamond Comics Preview this month (January) currently in stores. Please tell your local stores to order hundreds (or maybe just one). The page is above, they put up an interview with me and a bunch...
Read morePeter LookSeeSeen Retroreflected in MAKE Blog
For years NASA has used optical corner reflectors to measure the distance of the moon from the earth. Brown Cuts Neighbors’ photo documentarian and spring chamber manipulator LookSeeSeen uses them to take pictures of himself. MAKE Zine...
Read moreNew in the shop today!
Today we added the anthologies Bound & Gagged and Quiet Human Contact (both of which have contributions from Sparkplug artists), Amy Kuttab’s excellent fairy tale How Dry I Am and Phillip Barrett’s haunting Black Shapes. Check...
Read moreJason Martin Live at TIDE POOL – Sara Meltzer Gallery Tonight
Tonight, January 5, 7PM. Jason Martin will be doing a live music performance for TIDE POOL art show @ Sara Meltzer Gallery – ongoing installation, performances, and a shop curated by Ariel Dill and Denise Kupferschmidt, of the Apartment...
Read moreJason Martin Live at TIDE POOL – Sara Meltzer Gallery – New York, NY – 01/05/11
Two Top Ten Lists in one!
Kevin McCaighy and Matt D. have posted their top 10s list for last year. Elijah Brubaker’s Reich, Chris Cilla’s the Heavy Hand and Robert Sergel’s Eschew have all made the cut. Check out their blog Exquisite Things...
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