Three Little Fishies. Apparently there is a fish in one panel that is missing his “arms”. Sam swears he will fix this in the printed version… Sam’s The Magic Whistle #13 is coming this summer from Alternative Comics. Go...
Read moreE.M. Forster’s The Machine Stops
In 1966 the BBC aired an adaptation of Howard’s End and A Passage To India author’s E. M. Forster’s 1909 science fiction story The Machine Stops as part of their Out of the Unknown series. Riffing on H. G. Wells’ “A...
Read moreThe London Nobody Knows
James Mason presents The London Nobody Knows, based on the book by Geoffrey Fletcher. To watch in your browser on Veoh’s site you will need to download a plug-in and deal with all sorts of pesky bullshit and ads, but, wait, oh look! It...
Read moreThe Alternative Comics 100
As of 5 o’clock this morning, every single available book from Alternative Comics is now in the Wow Cool shop. That’s 100 in all, plus a couple of related distro titles. That includes nearly 20 books that are otherwise out of...
Read moreNew in the Shop: Two by Aaron Cometbus
After a long silence since Cometbus 54 – On the Road with Green Day – Aaron has returned suddenly with two new publications: Cometbus 55: Pen Pals and 45 Volume 7: Radon with Travis Fristoe. Pen Pals is a return to the...
Read moreStream Thom Yorke’s Atoms For Peace Album Now
Radiohead front guy Thom Yorke is about to drop the long-awaited Atoms For Peace LP AMOK, that he made with Nigel Godrich, Flea, Joey Waronker and Mauro Refosco. In the meanwhile you can stream the thing for free at the group’s website. Go...
Read moreHappy Presidents Day
John James Barralet, “The Apotheosis of Washington” (1802-1816)
Read moreMeet Nick Papadimitriou Deep Topographer
There are a few strains of inquiry and activity that have been common to my work in Wow Cool, DeptEx, and the Brown Cuts Neighbors that may not be super obvious, given that much of the result is performance, music, zines, comics and such. When...
Read morePower Animal Systems Round Up
There’s just a few days to go until Jason Martin and his Power Animal Systems crew join Lady Starlight for a series of dates on Lady Gaga’s Born This Way Ball tour. Here’s a brief news roundup of a couple items for you. UPDATE...
Read moreLady Starlight Speaks to StyleLikeU
As mentioned recently here, the founding members of my old band Brown Cuts Neighbors – Jason and Colleen ‘Lady Starlight’ Martin – are re-uniting on stage for eight of the upcoming east coast shows on Lady Gaga’s...
Read moreNew In The Shop: Monday Suicide by Gabriel Corbera
The latest release from one of our favorite of the new wave of micro-publishers (seriously, can we do away with that term?) is a little gem called Monday Suicide by Gabriel Corbera. That publisher? Space Face Books, of course! Geeez. Get with it...
Read moreAn English Journey Re-Imagined by Iain Sinclair, Alan Moore, FM Einheit & Co.
On the 22nd of October, 2011 Iain Sinclair and Alan Moore staged “An English Journey Re-imagined” at the Barbican in London. They were joined by musicians Susan Stenger and F. M. Einheit and artist Graham Dolphin. The English Journey...
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