AvatarBoing BoingDitch the pursuit of happiness and seek out wonder insteadboingboing.net - Gail ShermanOne of the smartest people I know taught me to spend my money and time on experiences, not things. It is excellent advice that I try really hard to …
AvatarBoing BoingWatch a 100-year-old book deconstructed and restoredboingboing.net - PopkinSophia Bogel is an author, teacher, and book restorer. Watch her take us through the fascinating process of deconstructing and restoring a …
AvatarBoing BoingFlipboardIcon version of the Flipboard logoAgnes Catlow's Drops of Water is an 1851 book filled with beautiful illustrations of the author's interpretations of microscopic organismsboingboing.net - PopkinAgnes Catlow's Drops of Water is an 1851 book filled with beautiful illustrations of the author's interpretations of microscopic organisms. The …
AvatarBoing BoingFlipboardIcon version of the Flipboard logoA book bound with human skin from dead woman's corpse finally removed from Harvard libraryboingboing.net - Carla SinclairApparently, in the 1800s, it wasn't unheard of for books to be bound in human skin. And Harvard University still had one such book in its library — …
AvatarBoing BoingFlipboardIcon version of the Flipboard logoNew graphic novel for middle graders about what pickled herring might have done to Grandmaboingboing.net - Ruben BollingI know cartoonist Alex Schumacher mostly through his comic strip Mr. Butterchips, a foul-mouthed hard-drinking, chain-smoking organ grinder's monkey …
AvatarBoing BoingUpcoming book: How Comics Were Made: A Visual History from the Drawing Board to the Printed Pageboingboing.net - Ruben BollingJournalis, author and Boing Boing contributor Glenn Fleishman has launched a Kickstarter to fund an upcoming book, How Comics Were Made: A Visual …
AvatarBoing BoingFlipboardIcon version of the Flipboard logoTodd Klein's online book, The Art and History of Lettering Comicsboingboing.net - Ruben BollingComic book letterer and historian Todd Klein has released what he calls an "online book" on his blog: The Art and History of Lettering Comics. Neil …
AvatarBoing BoingFlipboardIcon version of the Flipboard logoNot every princess trapped in a tower should be let outboingboing.net - Jason WeisbergerT Kingfisher's Thornhedge is a fantastic fairy tale turned on its head. I would hate to spoil even a moment of this fantastic but too short, fairy …
AvatarBoing BoingFlipboardIcon version of the Flipboard logoLeaked emails show works were excluded from Hugo Awards over China concernsboingboing.net - Ruben BollingWhen the administrators of the 2023 Science Fiction and Fantasy's Hugo Awards were counting the votes for works to be nominated for the awards …
AvatarBoing BoingFlipboardIcon version of the Flipboard logoWhen he died, his family discovered 50 years of cartooning output: the secret comics of Frank Johnson are publishedboingboing.net - Ruben BollingWhen shipping clerk and former musician Frank Johnson died in Chicago in 1979 at the age of 67, his family was shocked to discover 2,300 pages of …
AvatarBoing BoingFlipboardIcon version of the Flipboard logoExcerpts from"Mary Tyler MooreHawk," Dave Baker's post-modern mystery and pop culture love letterboingboing.net - Gareth BranwynWe wrote about the announcement of Dave Baker's eagerly anticipated Mary Tyler MooreHawk back in June of last year. Here is more about the book from …
AvatarBoing BoingFlipboardIcon version of the Flipboard logoNew online class about mind-bending science fiction writer Philip K. Dick taught by the stars of PKD scholarshipboingboing.net - David Pescovitz"Welcome to punk rock literary criticism!" says Philip K. Dick scholar David Gill who is launching a new online course starting January 30 all about …