Jason Martin\\\’s Power Animal Systems – AS220 – Providence, RI – 03/23/13
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...
Read moreNew Books in the Store: Buzz #3 and Yeah, It Is!
We’ve added a couple new books to the store today! Buzz #3, a mini collecting Corinne Mucha’s always hilarious comics and Yeah, It Is!, a tale of angsty adolescence by Leslie Anne Mackenzie Stein. Please check them out and have a great weekend!
Read moreRyan Gosling Drives to Schenectady – The Place Beyond The Pines
Ben Coccio, who was a major part of the cast and crew on Brown Cuts Neighbors second and third series of TV shows in the early 1990’s co-wrote the story and the screenplay for upcoming film The Place Beyond The Pines – which was shot in and around our hometown of Schenectady, New...
Read moreVery 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...
Read morePower Animal Systems in Providence This Weekend
Jason Martin‘s Power Animal Systems will be doing two shows this weekend – Saturday/Sunday, March 23/24 – at AS220’s 95 Empire in Providence, Rhode Island. A wolf-human hybrid trio conduct a seance with the help of performers Jessie Pellerin, Heather Brown and Jason...
Read moreBrian K. Vaughan & Marcos Martin Deliver The Private Eye
Comic book creators Brian K Vaughan (Y The Last Man, Lost) and Marcos Martin (Batgirl: Year One, The Amazing Spider-Man) have just released the first chapter in their new ten-part series – The Private Eye – using the direct from creator to audience Pay What You Want model. The comic...
Read moreKeep Williamsburg Beautiful
Sam Henderson has joined the campaign to spread the message that “Only you can stop pollution”.
Read moreDreams 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...
Read moreUpcoming 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...
Read moreHappy 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...
Read moreCaptain Beefheart interviews and texts 1966 – 2001
Readers of this site will occasionally be exposed to coverage of music by Radiohead, Led Zeppelin and, of course, Captain Beefheart and his Magic Band. Since Don Van Vliet’s passing we’ve been a little light on the Beefheart coverage, so we now offer you this. Brooklyn’s fine...
Read moreNew 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...
Read moreALIEN WHALE + HEAT IDENTITY + JASON MARTIN – The Silent Barn – Brooklyn, NY – 03/12/13
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...
Read moreSupport Black Eye 2 The Anthology of Humor + Despair
Black 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 Hellman, and David Lynch (!) BLACK EYE 2 is...
Read moreStare 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...
Read moreDouglas 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...
Read moreSteven Cerio\’s \”The Magnificent Pigtail Shadow\” – Zero Station – Portland, ME – 03/09/13
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
Read moreSteven Cerio at The Jack Kerouac Literary Festival – JACK KEROUAC LITERARY FESTIVAL – Lowell, MA – 03/08/13
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...
Read moreYou report. We decide. Adam Curtis Lays Down This First Theses
The 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 richest Texan and its greatest bigamist – H.L...
Read moreSupport 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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