Words we never thought we’d be typing department! Yes indeed, Fluke Fanzine was recently profiled in Huff Post land. You can get your Fluke zine fix right here on Wow Cool, including the recent tenth issue with cover art by Nate Powell as...
Read morePost Punk Film Fest at The Roxie This Weekend
You are required to go see all of This Must Be the Place: Post-Punk Tribes 1978 – 1982 at The Roxie Theater in San Francisco this weekend. Read my interview with co-curator Mike Keegan on Maximum RockNRoll.
Read moreFree Pussy Riot!
Three young women are being detained by Russian authorities for allegedly performing a protest song in a cathedral as part of a feminist punk group “Pussy Riot”. Nadezhda Tolokonnikova, Maria Alekhina and Ekaterina Samutsevich were...
Read moreYou’re So New To Me – SDCC 2012 Finds
I know it’s CCI now or something, but whatever. I went to San Diego Comic-Con for the first time in 14 years this past weekend and this is a quick run-down of artists, books and places that were either new to me or finally stuck in my mind...
Read moreYour Dream Airport Bookstore – Compass SFO Terminal 2
I mentioned to a few people this past weekend at the Comic-Con thing in San Diego that I found this great bookstore in the airport that had Jeffrey Brown’s Vader & Son and Lisa Hanawalt’s Fart Book (both from Chronicle Books)...
Read morePhotos from Comic-Con 2012
39 photos of dubious merit, shot with my crappy phone-cam at the latest San Diego comics and what-have-you entertainmenty get-together clusterflock. Suitably annotated. Enjoy. See them all on thee flickr.
Read moreUncle Marc Goes To The Toy Store
The grandparents were in town to spoil the Wow Cool kids. They got off easy on the tab when we found a ton of Jay Steven’s Secret Saturdays action figures on clearance. The show is currently in reruns on the Cartoon Network’s...
Read moreSneak Peek at James Kochalka’s SuperF*ckers Cartoon
This is a small clip from the first episode. David Faustino as Jack Krak and Ted Biaselli as Wonder Kyle. Attendees at the Top Shelf Productions panel at San Diego Comic-Con this past weekend got to see a much longer excerpt, with David Faustino...
Read moreSupport This – SP7 Alt. Comics Tribute to GARO
Retrofit Comics is getting together with Secret Prison to produce the biggest book either of them will have released to date. It’s an alternative/art-comics tribute to the spearhead of the Gekiga movement, the anthology Garo. They are...
Read moreA Variety Show – The Gershwin Hotel – New York, NY – 07/12/12
Brandon Graham’s Escalator and other Transports
Brandon Graham’s collection of short strips Escalator is now in stock in the Wow Cool shop as are many other titles from Alternative Comics. Many more are on their way. Wow Cool has been named as the preferred online retailer of Alternative...
Read moreA Couple New Titles in the Shop
We’ve added a couple minis we picked up at Olympia Comics Fest and CAKE to our shop! Check out Swaying Gates by Naji, Viewotron #1 by Sam Sharpe and David Goodrich, and Daily Comics Volume 5 and Volume 6 by Chelsea Baker. We also have...
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