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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
Read moreALIEN WHALE + HEAT IDENTITY + JASON MARTIN – The Silent Barn – Brooklyn, NY – 03/12/13
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Read moreBig 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...
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...
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...
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...
Read moreSteven Cerio\’s \”The Magnificent Pigtail Shadow\” – Zero Station – Portland, ME – 03/09/13
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Read moreWow 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...
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