Yes. Oh yes. Print editions of the Magic Whistle are available here. Number 13 is coming this summer.
Read moreNew Books From Koyama, Mickey Z & Drippy Bone
Eat More Bikes!!!! In case you are not yet tuned in – Nathan Bulmer’s Eat More Bikes is a required daily web visit. In the meanwhile he has dropped a proper print comic through Koyama – a little more sophisticated – with tones and things – and we have that joint...
Read moreArthur Magazine Is Back!
The beloved Arthur Magazine has returned after a four year hiatus. And it’s big! Like, the size newspapers were in the thirties, big (yeah, we missed those days too, it’s freaking huge)! And what better way to return than wrapped up in gorgeous art by our old pal Rick Veitch? Arthur...
Read moreNew Books In The Shop – Spina, Soto and More
Lots of new books have been added to the shop while we have had holidays and such. Not least of which is Sam Spina’s Frantastic Four (above). Also new to these shores is Zack Soto’s remixed and expanded Secret Voice (below), Series ZZZZZ and Other Stories by Michael McMillan, Negron...
Read moreWayne White – Beauty Is Embarrassing
Watch On a Mission to Bring Humor into Fine Art on PBS. See more from Independent Lens. This is on my local PBS station right now. It should be on yours at various times throughout the week. I used to trade minicomics with the great Wayne White back in the 1980s (his are true classics).
Read moreLove Without Sound – The Death of Recorded Music
This has been an interesting new year… hell, an interesting week – for me, certainly – but also for the music industry. It’s possible some other things and people were affected by various other events as well. You know… maybe. Let’s see… Wow Cool turned...
Read moreNew Books: Big Plans Collection and Take a Picture
Hello friends! We’ve added two books to our store. First is the Big Plans collection by Aron Nels Steinke, published by Bridge City Comics! If you’ve been a fan of Big Plans for awhile (like we have) this is a real treat; it contains Big Plans 1-5 plus a bunch of...
Read moreWay Out Variety Show – The Gershwin Hotel – New York, NY – 01/15/13
Reg Everbest Goes to The Magic Store
“Miss Tracie, Prepare the standard ‘rich and famous’contract for Steve Gerber.” It starts when we’re kids… a show-off at school. Makin’ faces at friends. You’re a clown and a fool. After the biggest freakin’ massive blow up year of astounding...
Read moreWow Cool @25 CNN’s Boom or Bust 1994
Wow Cool was paid a visit by CNN in mid-1994 for a feature on the venomous werewolves of Generation X and their sinister plan to devour the sad old hippies and their filth. It was called Boom or Bust? and originally aired on Sunday, August 14, 1994. Baby Boomer Culture withering under the wave...
Read moreWow Cool @25 Tuna Casserole 7 Foldout 1989
I spent a little while today digging through the archives trying to find something cool to post from our rich history… didn’t find too much exciting… So, in the spirit of this self-congratulatory project, I picked one of my own – the foldout poster from Tuna Casserole #7...
Read moreWow Cool @25 The Reviews Are In 1994
There was a time when hundreds of thousands of printed fanzines were published every single day. These three fondly remembered rags – Factsheet 5, Yakuza (this issue here) and Flipside – gave our catalog glowing reviews. What a strange dark age that was!
Read moreWow Cool @25 The Bobby Madness Method 1995
As far as I know this deep examination of the global behemoth that was Wow Cool in the mid-90s by Bobby Madness only ever appeared in one of our monthly wholesale catalogs. Edition of 200 or so. Wow Cool published four issues of Bobby’s Mad Soul Comics from 1995-1997. You can get...
Read moreWow Cool @25 The New Smile Pad SDCC 1989
Bonus nostalgia content! A peak inside the New Smile Pad that I took to San Diego Comic-Con in 1989. Contributors are – clockwise from the cover: Dan Clowes, Krystine Kryttre, Marc Arsenault, Mark Martin, Ron Turner. Enjoy! “Keep Smile is The Most Important Thing In Your Life.”...
Read moreWow Cool Winter 2013 Wholesale Distro List
Hello friend. Do you own a comic book shop or other fine retail operation that sells comic books? Please consider adding the many fine items distributed by Wow Cool to your offerings. If you are already a customer of Tony Shenton‘s, it’s as easy as sending him an email or giving him...
Read moreWow Cool @25 Wholesale Catalog Boards 1995
Once upon a time in the mid-1990s Wow Cool was an active distributor of zines and independent comic books to retail markets. Apart from the indie-friendly comic books shops, many of our clients were cafes, regular bookstores and record shops. Sadly, there does not seem to be any sort of active...
Read moreWow Cool @25 The First Mail Order Catalog 1989
This is the first item in our nostalgic look back that has a serious cringe element for me. The first couple of posts were not really my work. This one is another story. The very first Wow Cool mailorder catalog is a spectacular mess on the inside. Typography and stats and scans were begged...
Read moreNew Comics from Retrofit & Hic & Hoc In The Shop
Just added to the Wow Cool shop are four new titles from Hic & Hoc Publications: Abzernad by DW, Three Stories by Ian Andersen, Looking Out by Philippa Rice (shown above) and the third installment of Pat Aulisio’s Bowman series – Earthbound. From the former home of Bowman...
Read moreWow Cool @25: Tuna Casserole #1 1988
Tuna Casserole #1, January 1988. Edited and published by Sam Henderson and Tom Hart. This is a scan of the original paste-up boards. Contributing artists included Rob Schreiber, Brett Bondar, Bob Guglielmo, Joe Walden, Ted Bolman, Mikko Meronen and myself. WLH was Sam’s publishing imprint...
Read moreWow Cool @25: Pieces Of APE 1994
Happy birthday to us! Sometime in 1988 the editorial crew behind School of Visual Arts off-Campus publication Tuna Casserole changed it’s name from The Art Dicks to Wow Cool. Tuna Casserole was launched by Sam Henderson and Tom Hart in the studio that Tom and I shared at the SVA dorms in...
Read moreReviews and Top Tens
Tom, Emily and I have done our Top Ten Comics lists again, but first…please check out this excellent review of Riech #9 by Rob Clough! Also, Nurse Nurse made it onto CBR’s Top 100 comics of 2012, so congrats to Katie Skelly! And now, the lists: Emily: My top 10, in no...
Read moreThe Final Magic Whistle Reel of 2012
Yes, it is for December. Magic Whistle #12 still needs more loving homes.
Read morePrincess Seppuku Arrives From New Zealand
New Zealand animator and illustrator Karl Wills has brought his clean lined champion Princess Seppuku to America and Wow Cool has her. The first two comics in the series are available now at a special introductory price while supplies last. Book One: Princess Seppuku and The Hunt for Robot X...
Read moreIn Memoriam of What We Left Behind in 2012
Courtesy of Sam Henderson and The Magic Whistle.
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