A few days ago, I was talking to one of my American publisher buddies about SNK's Cool Cool Toon. "It's great!" I said. "You've got these two cool, identifiable lead characters, and they team up with ...

Groovy is over, hip is square, far out is long gone. Don’t worry, though — it’s cool. “Cool” remains the gold standard of slang in the 21st century, as reliable as a blue-chip stock, surviving like ...

The pursuit of cool is one of the driving forces of fashion culture. Cool has become "the highest value in modern society, shaping consumption, politics and parenting" [1]. Cool cannot be learned. It ...

Welcome to Summer Cooldown, our weeklong tribute to all things cool in pop culture. Through our role models of chill and our misguided attempts to emulate them, to the DGAF heroes so defiantly uncool ...

Being cool is hard. Staying cool is harder. It’s an elusive quality, in part because it’s an elusive word with layers of nuanced meaning that peel off as we travel back through the centuries. Sprinkle ...

Groovy is over, hip is square, far out is long gone. Don't worry, though, it's cool. "Cool" remains the gold standard of slang in the 21st century, as reliable as a blue-chip stock, surviving like few ...