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...
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...
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...
Read moreIn Memoriam of What We Left Behind in 2012
Courtesy of Sam Henderson and The Magic Whistle.
Read moreR.I.P. Keiji Nakazawa
Keiji Nakazawa, creator of the semi-autobiographicsl ten volume Hadashi no Gen (Barefoot Gen) manga series about the atomic bombing of Hiroshima and the aftermath has died at 73. I picked up a copy of his shorter I Saw It comic when I was 14. It...
Read moreR.I.P. Gerry Anderson
The creator of the Thunderbirds has left the planet. All you need to know about the worlds Gerry and his wife Sylvia created can be found on the Fanderson site.
Read moreJoe Strummer Left Us Ten Years Ago Today
Joe Strummer passed away ten years ago today. He died suddenly, the victim of an undiagnosed congenital heart defect. He would have been sixty years old now had he skipped that one. Hellcat Records recently reissued the three classic releases he...
Read moreAlan Moore Knows The Score
I don’t know that I’ve seen all this easily linked to in one place. Dr. & Quinch and Bojeffries Saga creator Alan Moore has been in and about the news just a bit of late. Most significantly: the website JimmysEnd.com has been...
Read more3 AM: Public-access television now – LaunchPad – Brooklyn, NY – 12/15/12
William S. Burroughs’ Blade Runner Movie
Shift cut tangle word lines–Word falling–Photo falling–Bill Paxton Taking Tiger Mountain In 1974 Alan E. Nourse – an American physician and author released a science fiction novel called The Bladerunner about black market...
Read moreBlack Pus – The Wise Toad
Lightning Bolt’s Brian Chippendale has been sneakily posting videos for his other musical project Black Pus on the YouTube for the last year or so. Other goodies are to be found on his channel as well. This track is from the 2008 CD...
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