Sam Henderson Joins The New York Observer

Sam Henderson Joins The New York Observer

New York City’s weekly newspaper The Observer – which is in the middle of celebrating it’s 25th year of publication – has recently added a comics section with contributors Sam Henderson (who co-founded Wow Cool 25 years ago, and is published by our sister company...

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Very Small Records Makes The Collector Nerd Sweat

Very Small Records Makes The Collector Nerd Sweat

Without David Hayes you would not have East Bay punk rock from the ass end of the last century as you remember it (or how it was for that matter). As of a few weeks ago the latest manifestation of his Very Small Records has solidified (or metastasized) into a three headed Mecha-King Ghidorah...

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Dreams Don’t Die

Ike Eisenmann (Witch Mountain films, The Fantastic Journey and others) and Trini Alvarado (Times Square) star is this unusually arty and sympathetic early 80s TV movie on the New York Graf scene. Some more background on the film. Two young kids in love, one young graffiti artist and the other a...

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Upcoming Small Press Comics Goodness

Upcoming Small Press Comics Goodness

Here’s a brief roundup of some of the great comic books you can expect to come to these shores (or the Wow Cool shop) in the next few months. This list is by no means comprehensive. No sort of favoritism should be inferred, nor is it implied. This list was assembled in the order that the...

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Happy Pi Day from Wow Cool

Four years ago I released this video for Pi Day from my band nickname: Rebel. I was going to try to get a remix together for this year’s non-event, but with 10 minutes to go by the time I could have gotten started, it seemed pointless. So, here it is again: Ouroboros. Filmed in Barcelona...

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New in the Shop RL by Tom Hart

New in the Shop RL by Tom Hart

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 daughter’s too brief life. It is deeply personal and...

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Big Boys Always Jump The Fence

Once 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 – Where’s My Towel/Industry Standard...

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Stare in Awe as Euclid Records Moves

Stare in Awe as Euclid Records Moves

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 is just nuts. And, yes, they made their new floor...

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Douglas Adams Was Born 61 Years Ago Today

In 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 that loss. I’ve been on a bit of an...

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Wow Cool @ 25 Tom Hart Comic Strip from 1988

Wow Cool @ 25 Tom Hart Comic Strip from 1988

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, but I think it works pretty well without that

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Wow Cool @ 25 – Slaughterhouse 90210

Wow Cool @ 25 – Slaughterhouse 90210

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 to dig into the old sketchbooks… some...

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Support The Ditko Public Service Package

Steve 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 an earlier book, Ditko Package. As such, it is...

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