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‘I Love You With All of My Butt’ and Other Illustrated Hilarity From the Mouths of Babes

December 19, 2016Shiri Sondheimer

Right. That’s why we all had kids…

Get Some Artistic Perspective With 'Perspective Made Easy'

July 27, 2015December 14, 2017Tom Fassbender

Robbie Lee’s ‘Perspective Made Easy’ is a great guide for anyone just getting started with illustration and offers a nice refresher for more accomplished artists.

Lose Yourself in Tony DiTerlizzi’s ‘Realms’

June 3, 2015December 14, 2017Jonathan H. Liu1

Tony DiTerlizzi is an award-winning children’s book illustrator and author–his ‘WondLa’ trilogy is a favorite in my household, and we’ve got several of his pictures books as well. But before ‘The Spiderwick Chronicles,’ before his Caldecott Honor for ‘The Spider and the Fly,’ DiTerlizzi was a geeky kid who loved playing ‘Dungeons & Dragons.’

Stories by The Brothers Grimm Still Inspire

January 20, 2015Jenny Bristol

Experience the stories of The Brothers Grimm once again in these beautifully illustrated picture books.

Tea Without Princesses

January 18, 2015Rebecca Angel4

Tea parties don’t have to be about sparkles and lace. Here are some picture books to liven up your tea party for all genders and styles.

Ben Hatke’s Lost Creatures Blog Tour

September 6, 2014December 14, 2017Rebecca Angel

Come check out a lost creature on Ben Hatke’s blog tour. GeekMom is hosting some leafy and literate trolls!

Ben Hatke’s New Book: Julia’s House For Lost Creatures

August 21, 2014December 13, 2017Rebecca Angel1

Every page is full of visual fun in Ben Hatke’s new book, Julia’s House for Lost Creatures.

The Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen

Find a Classic Book From Taschen for Everyone on Your Shopping List

November 29, 2013December 14, 2017Jason CranfordTeague

Taschen prints books worth owning. Books that you want to hold and turn the pages. Pull out and read, share them with your friends, or read to your children. Let me share a few that you may want to consider as we enter the 2013 gift giving season.

Curl Up With Stunningly Illustrated Books This Winter

November 3, 2013Jenny Bristol1

Winter is a great time to curl up with a great picture book, reading it to your kids. Here are some classics and fun new editions to the genre.

Ominous entrance to Phantasialand's Black Mamba

Illustrator Steve Thomas Takes on The Wizard of Oz!

January 24, 2013December 16, 2017Jenny Bristol

Illustrator Steve Thomas takes on The Wizard of Oz.

The GeekMoms Podcast #23 Breaking Into Comics

June 8, 2012December 14, 2017Nicole Wakelin

Listen in as Corrina talks about how she got a chance to write a comic and the creative processed that followed. You’ll also learn how you, too, can write your own comic, and cross that item off your geeky bucket list.

Words & Pictures: Which Tells the Story?

March 21, 2012December 14, 2017Jonathan H. Liu

In a picture book, what tells the story: the pictures or the words? I mean, it’s called a picture book for a reason, right? What would a picture book be without the pictures? Imagine any of your childhood favorites without …

Another Fan Trilogy is Complete – Return of the Jedi in Iconoscope

February 14, 2012December 14, 2017Nathan Barry

Star Wars fans have had a lot to talk about over the last few months, some of it good and some of it bad. We’ve seen the proper release of the crowd sourced Star Wars Uncut and the takedown of …

14 Authors Reimagine The Chronicles of Harris Burdick

November 1, 2011December 13, 2017Jonathan H. Liu

There’s a pretty good chance that you’ve seen the cover image shown here before — though perhaps not on the cover of a book. Perhaps one of the other 13 images is more familiar to you: a bird-and-vine wallpaper, with …

The Hobbit as Tolkien Saw It

October 25, 2011Matt Blum

J.R.R. Tolkien was a remarkably talented man, and famously provided a set of his own illustrations for his 1937 novel The Hobbit, though of course many editions have added those by other artists. But it wasn’t until the publisher HarperCollins was …

Kickstarter Project to Watch: The Circus and the Cyclone

August 24, 2011December 13, 2017Jenny Bristol

Kickstarter has gotten a lot of attention these days. If you just browse their listings, there are many projects that are art-based, but don’t necessarily give you anything tangible in return. But projects are being spread by word of mouth …

Picture Book Confusion

August 8, 2011Laura Grace Weldon1

Sitting down to read a stack of picture books is one of life’s little pleasures. Especially when those books are an ever-changing delight thanks to our friendly local library. Each read-through is a journey of imagination and learning. But if your kids are anything like mine, they regularly pick up on inconsistent text and […]

A Long Time Ago, on a Campsite Far, Far Away…

May 24, 2011December 14, 2017Sarah Pinault

The approach of Memorial Day finds me waxing poetic about the joys of camping. After leaving the hills and valleys of England behind and finding myself in the foothills of Maine, a place that is home to mosquitoes, black bears and other such lovely treats, I find myself married to someone who camps… in a […]

The Empire Strikes Back Retold in Glorious Iconoscope (GeekDad Weekly Rewind)

April 24, 2011December 14, 2017Admin

Star Wars Episode V – retold in Iconoscope Back in February, British designer & illustrator Wayne Dorrington released his own special retelling of our most beloved of stories, Star Wars Episode IV – A New Hope. He took the basic …

The Empire Strikes Back Retold in Glorious Iconoscope

April 20, 2011December 14, 2017Nathan Barry

Back in February, British designer & illustrator Wayne Dorrington released his own special retelling of our most beloved of stories, Star Wars Episode IV – A New Hope. He took the basic plot points of the movie and condensed them …

Tell Me a Story: 3 Games of Creative Storytelling

March 28, 2011Jonathan H. Liu

Fictionaire Overview: Released last September, Fictionaire is a game about bluffing the other players — whether it’s making up definitions for obscure words, inventing stories about science and nature or coming up with strange-but-true tales. Players: 4 to 7 (or …

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