Aaron Smith’s long-running post-Stars of Rock project Scientific Maps has dropped a new LP into the world today. Warm Apparitions is comprised of 13 new songs, and it’s on Seehurst Records. All songs written, performed and recorded by...
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Recent posts on Wow Cool Good Omens Official Trailer Released Steven Cerio’s ABC Book – A Drug Primer The Stupid Pages The Stupid Pages 47 – The Walrus Zippy The Pinhead Read the last two weeks of strips – right. now! New Books, Comics...
Read moreSteven Cerio’s ABC Book – A Drug Primer
Steven Cerio’s ABC Book – A Drug Primer first appeared some two decades ago as a slim hardcover book from the late Gates of Heck Press. It took you on a trip from A for “Angel Dust” to Z for “Zoloft”. The...
Read moreGood Omens Official Trailer Released
With Armageddon just days away, the armies of Heaven and Hell are amassing and The Four Horsemen are ready to ride. Aziraphale, an angel, and Crowley, a demon, agree to join forces to find the missing Anti-Christ and to stop the war that will end...
Read moreThe Stupid Pages 47 – The Walrus
Drawn with a Palomino Blackwing 54 – The Exquisite Corpse pencil, generously donated to the cause by our friend Jim. Rejected idea sketches for this week’s cartoon along with many others, can be found on the AltComics Instagram.
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In like a lion! The big news this week is that we have added Zippy the Pinhead by Bill Griffith to the site. Read it everyday in full color. Strips are archived for two weeks. We also have many new reviews, features & new books, comics and...
Read moreLinks Keep Tumbling Down
It’s been a couple of months since the last installment of the ‘something good to read on a Sunday’ linkdown bonanza. We’ll see how far we can get down the accumulated backlog of goodness assembled in that interim. How far...
Read moreThe Stupid Pages 46: Crazy Niche Asians
I’m not actually sure what Crazy Rich Asians is, but this seemed like an obvious riff on it. I wrote down dozens of ridiculous possible hobbies for the caption including ‘Bolivian Basket Weaving’ and ‘Obscure Tartan...
Read moreboosterbub Three Album Set Released
Former Brown Cuts Neighbors member Rob Goodale has release a three album set as free downloads on Bandcamp today under the name boosterbub. Rob was also a member of the Oakland groups Live Free or Die and Krebstar in the late 1990s. There is a...
Read moreHellen Jo’s Jin & Jam – Review
There’s little that’s quiet about Hellen Jo’s Jin and Jam, a Sparkplug Comic Books release. In the tradition of cartoonists like Charles Schulz, she’s clearly exploring different aspects of her self through her various...
Read morePreorder Dylan Horrocks’ Pickle 11: The Lost Issue
Launched just now! A FundRazr campaign to preorder the long overdue and never before published Pickle #11 by Dylan Horrocks from Black Eye Press. We are hoping to get some copies in the Wow Cool shop when it comes out, but we fully urge you to...
Read moreLiz Suburbia’s Egg Cream #1 – Review
Note: This review contains major spoilers for Egg Cream and for the proceeding work Sacred Heart. Egg Cream #1 is Liz Suburbia’s compromise between working non-stop on a new book and doing a one-woman anthology on the side. This series...
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