Brand new in the shop is the second book release from Space Face Books, an anthology digest by the name of Rat Hex featuring brand new art and comics by Robert Beatty, Clint Colburn, Michael DeForge, Jesse McManus and Matt Lock.

Sorry it’s been a slow week in blog-land, the main machine is in the shop at the moment. All should be coming at you quicker again soon.

We are scheduled to get the last of our shelving for the too long in developing physical Wow Cool store in Cupertino sometime in June. So look for an announcement no later than July 4th about that opening up. Hours will be limited to start off (likely just Saturdays and by appointment for the summer).

Oh, and don’t miss the latest Ant Comic by Michael DeForge.

Thanks for visiting. Talk more soon. OK?

From a 2008 printing of Daniel Pennac’s 1985 novel Au bonheur des ogres (released in English as The Scapegoat). The first installment in La Saga Malaussène. Click to massivfy

First up are the first three offerings from Austin English’s Domino Books: Dark Tomato #1 by Sakura Maku, Spider Monkey #1 by Jesse McManus & Austin English, and Difficult Loves by Molly Colleen O’Connell.

Sugar Booger! Yes, Kevin Scalzo’s books live and thrive again at Wow Cool! Both issues of Sugar Booger, Aw Nuts and Sweat Book are all in stock. Vital stuff.

And then there’s Nurse Nurse by Katie Skelly, collecting all eight issues of her minicomic in a lovely paperback package. The first new release from Sparkplug since founder Dylan Williams’ passing. Michael DeForge says, “Nurse Nurse is perfect! It is beautiful and funny and deeply weird, and unlike any other comic out there right now”.

Sparkplug, Teenage Dinosaur, Revival House and Floating World join forces to bring you their 2012 FCBD anthology, BRAD TRIP. Eight Portland artists take you on a journey that explores vagaries, innuendoes, dreamscapes and weirdness in narrative form. Featuring all new comics by Virginia Paine (Milkyboots), Annie Murphy (I Still Live), Kinoko Evans (Zine City Comics), Aidan Koch (The Whale), Dunja Jankovic (Department Of Art), and Maria Sputnik (Gazeta) & Connie Hockaday. Covers by Lori D and Brenna Murphy (Oregon Painting Society).

Brad Trip is a 32 page black and white comic book with color covers. FREE with any order (or plus postage on it’s own) while supplies last. Any orders placed on WowCool.com this Saturday, May fifth (Cinco de Mayo!) will also receive as many other random free books as will fit in the box. We have all sorts of goodies waiting for you.

In Portland, Oregon? Go to the book release and art exhibit Thursday, May 3rd. Then join the artists the following Saturday 12-2pm for Free Comic Book Day.

WHO: Lori D, Kinoko Evans, Annie Murphy, Virginia Paine, Maria Sputnik
WHAT: Brad Trip free book release & art exhibit
WHEN: Thursday, May 3rd, 6-10pm
WHERE: Floating World Comics, 400 NW Couch St.

Steven Cerio‘s film “The Magnificent Pigtail Shadow” – narrated by Kristin Hersh – will have its screen debut at the MAKING MOVIES 2012 FILM AND VIDEO SERIES curated by Terry Cuddy and organized by the Schweinfurth Art Center and held at the Auburn Public Theatre (108 Genessee street, Auburn NY) tonight, Thursday, May third. Check it!

After a brief hiatus during the recent troubles, the mighty Injury Comics by Ted May and company has returned. Issue number four is here! The books are in stock and ready to ship to you. Successfully funded as a Kickstarter project, our friends at Alternative Comics have kicked in the extra help to up the print run on this baby and get it out to the masses through the usual channels. The book makes it’s official debut on June 16 at CAKE – The Chicago Alternative Comics Expo. Shortly after that it will be showing up in an indie-friendly comic shop near you. Until then you can only get them direct through Ted or from us. Grab ‘em while they are hot, true believer!

Came out end of last year but new to us. Dense jam comic from Pat Aulisio & Josh Bayer (Bowman, Raw Power, Rub the Blood, etc.). The cover art is printed again on a vellum overlay that lies out of alignment with the cover to create nausea inducing panic in the viewer. Guaranteed to upset Roy Thomas. CONON!!!

New to our shop is the first installment of Gabrielle Gamboa’s ambitious adaptation of Nathanael West’s agony column expose Miss Lonely Hearts. Frank Santoro says: “The tension between the styles builds and the rhythm of the 1,2 of the panels and the page turns is executed precisely and makes you want to read it all again and again. I forgot how intense this story is – it very much lends itself to a comic book treatment. Why it works is that the treatment is rooted stylistically to the time period rendered.” Go get yours now.

You too may have a fit of the vapours after reading and watching this overview of the exploits of this strange twisted man who is far more warped then Jonathan Pryce could have ever portrayed him. Hey, tomorrow never does die, does it?

Slater is a man-dog who is beaten up, de-beagled, tied up and attends group therapy in this harrowing tale of identity and redemption. Go get yours now in the Wow Cool Shop.

Malachi Ward’s new comic is the haunting 29 page tale, “Real Life” that makes up all of the first issue of his new series Ritual. You may know Malachi from his books Utu and Expansion with Matt Sheean. He’s also contributed to Study Group Magazine, NoBrow #6 and Prophet #24. Ritual #1 is in stock and available to you now in the Wow Cool Shop.

All items in our Music section are 50% off until Midnight Pacific Time, April 21/22, 2012 in celebration of Record Store Day. Discount applied when items are added to your cart.

It’s the last weekday of spring break. My family stopped by the office with smoothies after their trip to San Jose’s Happy Hollow. Shortly after recovering from the discovery that there was broken glass in mine, I notice my son flipping through an old issue of Mad Magazine. He loves Spy Vs. Spy, and was explaining the silent series of traps to me. On the facing page I recognized a story drawn by Harvey Kurtzman. Then I saw my name written there. I had totally forgotten about this personalized copy and don’t really remember the exact circumstances. This is from Mad #274, the October 1987 issue ($1.35 Cheap!) I was a student in Harvey’s class at The School of Visual Arts at that time. I imagine that I showed up early to class having just discovered that he was drawing for the magazine, brandishing the thing in one hand like Senator Joe McCarthy going after commies in the State Department. No idea when or how he snuck in there to jot this note. Thanks Harvey! I believe you now!

82 year old American teenager poised for holographic comeback. The original fanboy who leant his likeness to brilliantly packaged nostalgia injections – as pictured above – has joined the aether. His tortured gravely voiced accompaniment to recent annual roll overs in the city that never sleeps served to underline the terminal subtext of such celebrations. We are lesser for his loss.. Lien bearers to an infinitude of continued nostalgias without frontier. Witnesses to an infinity of gloved cartoon feet pressing against our sinuses with the urgency of a bear tainted by the taste for the fruits of the city.

Each and every copy hand made by Zak Sally on his own press as shown below. Go grab yours now.

Thanks to Branwyn Bigglestone for remembering. She had the following to say and I couldn’t sum it up any better.

25 years ago today Rory Root & Michael Patchen opened Comic Relief in Berkeley, CA. The store has since closed, but its impact is still felt today, and I’m personally thankful for them helping me get my start in comics, and for giving me the opportunity to meet lots of people who have become some of my closest friends.

I wanted to just use the Dan Clowes CR logo on this post, but couldn’t find a good version on the web, and running across town to the office to dig up a better one was not going to happen on a Sunday. So… you get the above video. I’d not seen it before. Enjoy.

About the BBC has shared a selection of photographs charting the life of the BBC Radiophonic Workshop, a department based at Maida Vale Studios in Delaware Road, West London dedicated to producing sound effects and new music set up in 1958 and closed down forty years later. They were freaking awesome. More reading on Sound on Sound. You are also required to watch the Alchemists of Sound. Part one is below.

For those who were without New York public access TV or forgot to steam this last night. It’s Jason Martin on the Chris Gethard Show. Apologies to our Philly friends. The Jason action starts around 21 minutes in with “Alpha Dog”. They return at 45:30 with Mariah Moriah. After that you’re on your own. It’s pretty much an Evolution Revolution reunion with Aaron Smith, Troy Pohl and Jesse Pellerin. Chris knows his history, and he gives a little love to Brown Cuts Neighbors:

On top of all THAT, we will be joined by the fine musical stylings of Jason Martin. Not ONLY will he be bringing his danceable, experimental, crazy cool pop music to our fine show from the northern wilds of Albany, NY, Jason is ALSO an old school public access hero who was one of the masterminds behind a show that is clearly a kindred spirit to our own, Brown Cuts Neighbors. I am excited and flattered to welcome a musician of his caliber to our crappy little public access stage.

In other Jason news, there are some astounding photos up on Brooklyn Vegan of the Andrew W. K. show from a few nights ago which featured Jason’s Power Animals with Aleister X.

Get Jason’s songs on his SoundCloud page.
Jason’s most recent release is the Harmonic Time Cycles & Scary Guitar Man Cassette on Yeay! Tapes

The show is also available as a podcast on iTunes It’s episode #41.

Fresh off the boat from swinging London is issue six of NoBow Magazine. For their first double issue NoBrow asked over 60 artists to contribute work to the theme of Doubles or Doppelgangers. With contributions from Tom Gauld (The Gigantic Robot), Kevin Huizenga (Ganges), Blanquet (Toys in the Basement), Malachi Ward (Utu) as well as new narrative work from Nobrow stalwarts Jon McNaught (Birchfield Close, Pebble Island), Jack Teagle (Jeff: Job Hunter) and Luke Pearson (Hildafolk) and the formidable talents of Michael Deforge and Ignatz newcomer award winner Joseph Lambert, among many, many others. Illustration submissions from the likes of Sean Lewis, Roman Muradov, Golden Cosmos, Gwenola Carrere, Andrea Kalfas, Viviane Scwartz, Katia Spitzer, Luke Best and many many more!

We’ve also got the newest issue of the excellent Mother’s News in; and, while supplies last, anyone whose order ships out from the Wow Cool shop via Media or Priority Flat Rate mail gets a free copy. The last couple issues flew out of here pretty quick. For those who don’t know, Mother’s News is a free monthly newspaper out of Providence, RI. It features regular comic strips by Michael DeForge, C.F., Brian Chippendale, Mickey Z. and many other that you can’t find elsewhere.

There are many new books that should be arriving any day, in the meanwhile we’ve recently added some older gems, including: fresh stock of Eric Haven’s The Aviatrix and Andy Ristaino’s Tunnel; Scott C.’s Double Fine Action Comics Volume 1; Tom Gauld’s The Gigantic Robot; the very fine second and third issues of the anthology Pencil Fight; and a Craig Thompson rarity in the Dark Horse magazine Reveal.

In other news, there is finally some proper art in the shop header, courtesy of Andy Ristaino.

Lady Starlight is profiled in the online magazine IN*TANDEM, with many pull-quotes and video loops by Jason Martin. Jump to page 95 for the action. Has she traded in the Jack Daniel’s for donuts? Denim for diamonds? What is going on?

Sarah, as Mike Kirsch, has been one of the most distinctive voices in punk for many bands you may know (Fuel, Sawhorse, Pinhead Gunpowder, John Henry West, Torches To Rome, Bread And Circuits, Please Inform The Captain This Is A Hijack, Baader Brains, Mothercountry Motherfuckers, etc.). She not too long ago came out as a proud trans-woman, and almost immediately was confronted with these terrible health problems. Money is badly needed.

Details:

Our good friend Sarah Kirsch was diagnosed over summer with Fanconi anemia, a rare genetic disorder that causes leukemia and other cancers. Despite being put through the f’n ringer by chemotherapy, a bone marrow transplant and very long hospital stays, Sarah is staying strong and fighting hard, finally out of the hospital and at home with her amazing partner Jess and loving full-time caregivers and friends, Paul and Ilya.??

Aside from the unconditional emotional and physical support Sarah has received from her devoted extended family and friends, donations to date have been enormously helpful in lightening the financial burden of this kind of illness. The demand for supplies not covered by insurance is, however, unending and deepening — from food to cleaning supplies to lotion to kleenex to parking at the hospital… and this is to say nothing of larger caregiving expenses.

It is all adding up and multiple life savings have already been depleted. ??If you’re able and would like to contribute in this way, please check out our WePay account below. There is no donation too small, every $ helps.??

Sarah was bandmates with our own Joshua Baker in Sawhorse. I was going to use some more recent video, but couldn’t resist this classic clip of the mighty Fuel. Most of this post was lifted straight off of Maximum RockNRoll.

Already past its goal with a couple days to go, but still needing some extra help to safely up the print run to a thousand is Injury Comics #4. Please help these guys out.

Thanks!

As the seasons renew and the days last longer, lo!, there are new books in the shop and I stay up later to tell you about them. We have lifted the curse of a seemingly endless array of books published in 2008, which made up the bulk of additions to the shop last month, and moved on to actual new things.

First up we have Wild Glass Look Back by R. Clint Colburn, a full color sketchbook collection from new publisher Space Face Books. This is a very limited edition at a very reasonable price.

Next is the very latest in the Retrofit series, Noah Van Sciver’s 1999: The Year My World Ended – a possibly slightly ironic (given the year depicted) take on the putting the pathetic loser through a possibly semi-autobiographical hell tale.

Lastly, to prove that April is far from cruel, we give you fear in a handful of dust (wait that’s not right…) No, we give you D.I.Y. Magic by Anthony Alvarado – spawned from his Athur Magazine column and now taken root in heavily illustrated (by Ron Regé, Jesse Moynihan, Malachi Ward, Farel Dalrymple and many others) bound paper form from Portland’s Floating World Books.

Stay tuned for more goodness. This is looking to be an exciting year in funny book land.

I don’t have a subscription at my local shop. I don’t do all my new comics shopping at one store (we’re lucky to have several in the San Jose area). I don’t go every week. There are very few titles I buy every issue of. I check out several new books when I shop. Some I just browse. Some I flip through. A few I buy to take home and check out. I often buy books because they feature a favorite artist or writer. I frequently mutter in disgust and put the book back on the shelf when the art on the inside is no match for what’s on the cover. The last time I went at least once a month to the comic shop was when Brian K. Vaughan still had 2 regular series coming out (which was only for a short while after there were three). I often go and don’t find anything I want. Several times in recent months a book I was looking for was not available.

One thing that gets me into shops is online previews and reviews at the various popular comics news sites. I check at least four a day with the rest of my morning news. Some of the most talked about titles of the last many months on these include Image’s Mud Man, Saga, King City, Nonplayer, Orc Stain and Prophet. Saga was easy enough to find. The same shop that had that for me turned me on to Nonplayer. The rest, I have had to hunt all up and down the San Francisco bay to keep up with. If I could easily get Image titles online in print I would do that. It took several months to track down one elusive issue of King City. I don’t buy digital comics. I do read web comics.

Anytime I’m in a shop looking for particular titles it’s a safe bet I won’t find at least one of them. Sometimes the book hasn’t shipped when I thought it had. More often I’m told “we only got one of those, I guess it sold” – as was the case with the much hyped Mud Man #1. Most commonly the shop hasn’t ordered it and the clerk has never heard of it.

I also look for comics my son might like. His favorite is Scooby Doo. It is very rare to find more than the most recent issue available. Shop owners! If you take nothing else away from my little ramble, do yourself just this one favor. Order more Scooby Doo. They’ll sell.

Happy Music Monday with this 1999 clip of Nick Cave talking about the mighty Pop Group. Sorry there was a bit of a blogging blackout here last week. It wasn’t intentional, just slightly less than usual going on. Will try to get a thorough update of all the little bits happening up here on Tuesday.

New song. 2012. Radio Friendly. Jason Martin Website

We have just received a very special package from Mister Michael DeForge containing a stack of his most recent self-published comics: Kid Mafia #1 and the first and second installments of Open Country. These are all printed and hand-assembled by Michael. Also included were what may be the last few copies available in the United States of the classic Koyama Press title from 2010, Spotting Dear. Get ‘em while they are hot folks!

UPDATE: Apparently they were way hotter than anyone thought. Our apologies to everyone that was unable to get copies of these books. Some of them had sold out even before this post was published today. We never expected that much of a response. The power of a single tweet. We will have more copies available when Michael can get them printed and shipped to us.

In other news (updated 3/22): The problem with first class shipping on international orders has now been fixed. Massive apologies to our non-US customers who encountered a lack of the more affordable first class shipping option on check out. This is a problem we thought had been resolved. Apparently that is not the case on all orders. We are working hard to fix it. There is nothing we can do about the high charges for Priority and Express Mail. Rates are calculated by the US Postal Service and no charges are added by us. Thank you to everyone who paid us a visit today. Don’t worry if you missed out. Those books will be back.

The mighty tabloid from Philadelphia returns! They met their (way too modest) goal on the first day and have now set a secondary goal of $1,500 to double the print run. From the same team that brought you the mighty Rub The Blood. Get on over and Kickstarter this monster!

The latest issue of Desert Island’s excellent tabloid comics anthology Smoke Signal is out now and available for free from the store in Brooklyn or for a mere $3 online. It’s 28 pages, color and black and white, printed in an edition of 2000. Includes work by Brian Ralph, Alejandro Jodorowsky, Kamagurka and Seele (Cowboy Henk), Gabrielle Bell, Glenn Head, cover art and five pages of “Belligerent Piano” by Tim Lane and much more. Be sure to look for Wow Cool’s full color ad in this issue featuring art by Andy Ristaino.

Desert Island is located at 540 Metropolitan Ave, Brooklyn, NY 11211 | Map

Our fine friends at Sparkplug Books are getting set to publish three new titles – the first big batch since founder Dylan Williams’ passing last year – and they need your help to make it happen. There is an excellent array of reward items, including original art and t-shirts. Get yourself over to Indiegogo and help them out.

Sparkplug Comics is ready to take on new publishing projects and we’d like to ask your help!

This campaign is a fundraiser for three of Sparkplug Books’ upcoming publishing projects.  Our soonest release, scheduled for April of 2012, is the graphic novel Nurse Nurse, by Katie Skelly.  This book compiles the previously self-published first seven issues of Katie’s ongoing sci-fi saga of nurses traversing the planets of our solar system.  The new book includes an eighth chapter to conclude the story.  The book has a two-color cover and black and white interior.

Our next two projects come from artists with whom Sparkplug has worked on multiple books in our past.  Reich, a series by Elijah Brubaker, is the ongoing biography of eminent sexologist Wilhelm Reich; this will be issue 9.  Olga Volozova, who has released Rock That Never Sleeps (a collaboration with Juliacks) and The Airy Tales through Sparkplug, brings us The Golem of Gabirol.  Each of these will have full color covers and black and white interior pages.

These books are of special import not only because they are amazing in themselves, but because they are the last projects on which Sparkplug founder Dylan Williams was working before he died of cancer in September 2011.  We are honored to see these through to completion and work with such great talent.

Sparkplug has had a long working relationship with Portland company Brown Printing and we intend to use them again to get these books printed out.  Currently the layouts are complete for each project and finishing touches are being made before they are sent to Brown.  The money from this fundraiser will go towards printing costs of each book, as well as shipping costs for the books and other gifts we are offering as perks.

Please join us in making these books a reality!  Donate to the Sparkplug fundraiser today!

DONATION PERKS!

• $5 New mini comic Brad Trip, published in collaboration with other Portland small press companies,  plus postcards & sticker
• $15 All of above, plus Nurse Nurse book
• $25 All of above, plus Reich #9 (printing in June 2012)
• $35 All of above, plus Golem of Gabirol (printing in August 2012)
• $55 All of above, plus one grab bag Sparkplug title
• $65 All of above, plus tee shirt (choose from Renee French, Dylan Williams or Austin English designs while styles and sizes last)
• $100 All of above, plus three Sparkplug grab bag items & poster
• $200 All of above, plus original signed artwork by Sparkplug artists Chris Cilla, Aron Nels Steinke, Trevor Alixopoulos, Jeff Levine, and others.
• $300 All of above, plus invite to movie night party at Sparkplug Headquarters.  Pick out a movie, get tour of our facilities and drink beer / eat snacks with us.

Git yr ass down to the Roxie in SF this weekend for the Mission-style glory that is Cine-Madness! Friday, March 23 – Sunday, March 25, the Roxie teams up with L.A.’s Cinefamily and Austin’s Alamo Draft House to present three nights of wrong and twisted viewing pleasures. Get all the details on the Roxie’s site.

The stylish poster above was designed under great duress (seriously, it’s been a pretty heavy week here) by Wow Cool’s own Marc Arsenault (me). How often do you get to draw Nixon, Elvis and George Kuchar together?

From 2008 – but new to Wow Cool – is Microsoft’s Zune Arts sole publishing project: The Lost Ones. We received a stack of these direct from author Steve (30 Days of Night) Niles, who was nice enough to sign them for us. This 80-page full color graphic novel is surely one of the stranger entries in any of the contributors bibliographies. On board for the cover art and the final quarter of the story is Gary Panter. Also contributing are Morning Breath, Dr. Revolt and Kime Buzzelli.

Other recent additions to the shop you will want to check out (most of them from 2008… right before the crash, it seems…) are: Omega The Unknown #7 (also with Gary Panter), the Gary Panter 2-volume massive hardcover slipcased thing from Picture Box, Scott C.’s Double Fine Action Comics, the excellent anthology Meathaüs SOS, Tom Gauld’s Gigantic Robot, urban exploration zine Underneath Providence, and, from filmmaker Michel Gondry and Picture Box (Them Again!): You’ll Like This Film Because You’re in It: The Be Kind Rewind Protocol, and We Lost the War but Not the Battle.

In other shop news: The WowCool.com server has been upgraded. We are all kinds of faster and smoother now. The shopping cart software has been upgraded to the most recent version. Thousands of changes, adjustments and additions have been made to the product listings. Best news of all – especially for our non-US customers – the shipping calculations have been massively improved, accommodating the most recent overhaul by the USPS of their shipping rates and regulations. Rates for everyone will now (in most cases) appear from the cheapest to the more expensive options. As always, we recommend Priority Flat Rate as the most reliable – and in many cases, most affordable – option. Thanks for shopping with us. Wow Cool, global leaders in the freaky and the messed up.

Three of my all-time favorite songs from when I first heard them to forever.

The great French Master of Comics Art Jean Giraud has passed away age 73.

Kim Thompson has written the definitive English language obituary of Jean Giraud for The Comics Journal.

Erin is my hero. Go listen to her awesome Life During Wartime radio show, which she’s been co-hosting for over 15 years. The shows used to be released on cassette back in the ’90s. This is the video of the week over on Maximum RockNRoll, where Erin and I are both fairly lazy contributors.

OMG, the cameraman is quite in love with Erick Lyle and Anandi in that concert video! Erin rocked the drums with our own Joshua Baker in Things I Hate and Chased and Smashed (as seen in the video, duh). The Chased and Smashed – 30 Seconds Over Hillsboro EP is still available right here.

Ted May is all done with the fourth issue of his Injury Comics series. The catch is, he’s without a publisher at the moment. The book’s all done – featuring contributions from Jeff Wilson and Mike Reddy – they just need to be printed. And, yup, Ted needs your help to do that.

The first three issues of Injury and other works by Ted May are available in the Wow Cool Shop.

Northlanders Vol. 6: Thor’s Daughter – March 20, 2012

Dropping onto shelves later this month: Simon Gane illustrates writer Brian Wood’s tale of lost Viking history. Foot soldier Mads gives a grunt’s-eye view of the famous Siege of Paris where hundreds defended against thousands, and political maneuvering was as important as the clash of the shield wall. Even while they fight off the invading horde, Mads and company still have to make it through the brutal winter to survive. Collects Northlanders 37-39 “The Siege of Paris” + #40 “The Hunt” – illustrated by Matt Woodson, and #41 “Thor’s Daughter”, illustrated by Marian Churchland. Also, as mentioned recently, Simon will be the regular artist on the new Godzilla series starting in May.

Our dear friend Chloe is reprinting the popular Crap Hound #6 in a new edition and she needs your help on thee Kickstarter to make it happen. Here’s the pitch:

Dear Readers,

Sean is currently working on a book-length version of Crap Hound devoted to “Unhappy People” to be published by Feral House Press, so we thought we’d reprint an old favorite — Crap Hound #6: Death, Scissors & Telephones with a 16-pg. supplement of all new images — in the meantime! All the new material is in the supplement, the only change to the magazine from the 3rd edition is the cover.

This time around we’re offering pre-orders, as well as a variety of highly covetable rewards! Our goal is $13,000, which will cover the cost of printing 5000 copies of the magazine and supplement, silkscreen print, shipping and handling, and project fees.

Thanks for your interest in our project! If you like what you see, please help spread the word by sharing it with your friends! Remember, Kickstarter is an all or nothing proposition. If we don’t meet our goal, we won’t receive any funding!

Your Faithful Proprietress,
Chloe Eudaly
Reading Frenzy/Show & Tell Press

Zack Soto, the mastermind behind Press Gang partner Study Group, was nice enough to flow us a small stack of stickers and postcards recently (as seen in the impossibly bad phone photo above). Anyone who orders Study Group 12 #4 or Study Group Magazine #1 or any books by Zack Soto will be getting some bonus goodies (while supplies last).