If you've read a lot of my other posts here at GeekDad, you'll know that I am passionate about history. There are some really interesting things out there for learning history now that aren't the old ...

"You will fear Dracula again," says Jones of the project, which launches on Kickstarter later this month. By Borys Kit Senior Film Writer Dracula, one of the most popular horror creations in ...

Pages from ‘Graphic Stamps,’ published by Unit Editions (all images courtesy Unit Editions) (click to enlarge) Typically measuring no larger than one square-inch, postage stamps may not serve as the ...

A Visual History of Graphic Design by Jens Müller and Julius Wiedemann, published by Taschen (all photos by the author for Hyperallergic) Graphic design has been historically intertwined with ...

Here’s how we learned history when I was in school: a dead guy (Mr. X) did something important (action Y) a long time ago (year Z). Memorize X, Y and Z — it will be on the test. Did I like history?

Consider the phenomenon known as “Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind.” First written in Hebrew and self-published in Israel in 2011, the book by Yuval Noah Harari found an American publisher in ...

Fantagraphics is to publish Scrooge McDuck: The Dragon of Glasgow, a new hardcover graphic novel set in the Don Rosa Ducks universe, and gtelling the story of Uncle Scrooge's earliest days in ...

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“Battle Lines: A Graphic History of the Civil War” is a remarkable achievement both as a work of history and visual literature, providing a broad overview of the complex circumstances that gave rise ...

The foundational account of the man who changed the world forever, ORIGIN is the debut graphic novel in the much-anticipated MESSIAH series. Translated by Mark Arey with script adaptation by Matt ...

If you are like me, you were extremely excited to find out Hollywood was making Wolverine's origin story into a movie. Once the articles and pictures started coming out giving insight into the movie, ...