“…the Viewotron [is] a metaphor for the creative process. We don’t know where ideas come from. They just appear like blueprints out of the ether of our brains. An artist’s job is to look at the blueprints and build the...
Read moreSparkplug at Portland Zine Symposium This Weekend!
Are you ready for this year’s Portland Zine Symposium? We are! Come see us this weekend, August 10th and 11th! We’ll be tabling with a bunch of awesome books, both new and old. PZS is a free conference and zine social exploring facets...
Read moreSparkplug Highlights: Jade, Volume One, by Fiona Avocado
Today’s featured review is Jade, Volume One, by local artist and writer Fiona Avocado. Its premise is simple, and in fact it could be summed up in a sentence: a young woman skips out on work for the day and goes to the beach with her dog...
Read moreIntroducing Sparkplug Highlights!
Hey everyone! We’re excited to announce a new feature here on our blog called “Sparkplug Highlights,” in which we’ll choose a book from our store a couple of times a week and share a little bit about why we think...
Read moreSam Henderson Talks About Comics on Phones
Sam Henderson has a few things to tell you about this reading comics on your phone business. Visit MagicWhistle.com Sam Henderson on Wow Cool Related Images:
Read moreNew in the Store: Sky in Stereo #2!
Sky in Stereo #2 picks up shortly after the incredible first issue left off, plunging the reader back into the tumultuous life of Iris, a teenage girl living in early 1990s Manchester. In this issue, Iris experiments with hallucinogens, pines...
Read moreSteven Cerio Draws
Visit StevenCerio.com Visit Wow Cool’s shop for Cerio comic, music, prints and more. Related Images:
Read moreBrutal Sound Effects #75 – The Lab – San Francisco, CA – 07/27/13
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Read moreNew in the Store: It’s Snowing Down South and Retail Break #4!
We now have Andrice Arp’s awesome grab bag of a zine, It’s Snowing Down South. Featuring an ongoing minicomic, doodles and drawings, honest self-examinations, and drink recipes, this is a wry and funny collection that will give you a...
Read moreSupport this: Tangiers – Avant Garde Stealth Game
Imagine a video game that combines a 3D explorable world that has the stealth gameplay of Thief with the ideas of the 20th century avant garde as documented in Re/Search and you still might not having something as great as what Tangiers is poised...
Read moreJosh Bayer’s Raw Power Part Two is Out Now
Josh Bayer’s Raw Power Part Two is now available in the Wow Cool Shop. Noah Van Sciver says, “That shit is intense!!” Go get yours now. Also new to the shop are two of Josh Shalek’s fine books: Falling Rock National Park...
Read moreWow Cool @ 25 Comics FX July 1989
Wow Cool got a whole page in the old small press comics tabloid Comics F/X back in July 1989. The man incorrectly identified as Marc is actually the sculptor Paul Komoda. Sam cleverly altered minor details of Wow Cool history to protect the...
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