Happy 50th Birthday, Neil Gaiman!
Today, a great geek, literary and comic book icon celebrates a birthday. There is not much that cannot be told about Neil Gaiman that you can’t find on his brooding website or his Wikipedia entry....
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Interview with “The Price” Filmmaker Christopher Salmon
[imagebrowser id=15] A couple weeks ago, Christopher Salmon embarked on a seemingly impossible task to raise $150,000 via Kickstarter to fund what could arguably be one of the most ambitious and...
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Three Days Left to Help Contribute to “The Price”
If you’re a Neil Gaiman fan, a fan of independent films, animation or just helping others realize really cool ideas, there are a few days left to help bring an adaptation of Neil Gaiman’s ‘The Price’...
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Congratulations to Newlyweds Neil Gaiman and Amanda Palmer!
It’s official: author extraordinaire and geek dad Neil Gaiman and brilliantly imaginative musician Amanda Palmer are now husband and wife. The pair, who announced their engagement nearly a year ago,...
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Dork Tower Wednesday
Read all the Dork Towers that have run on GeekDad. Find the Dork Tower webcomic archives, DT printed collections, more cool comics, awesome games and a whole lot more at the Dork Tower Website.
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Paul and Storm Get Their “Geek A Week” Card, With Text by Neil Gaiman
The only surprise about Paul and Storm being featured on the latest installment of Len Peralta’s awesome “Geek A Week” card series is that it took so long for their turn to come. It’s hard to believe...
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Terry Pratchett Provides Some Good Good Omens Omens!
Terry Pratchett and Neil Gaiman’s novel Good Omens is by any reasonable standard one of the top ten funniest books ever written. I’ve read it at least a dozen times over the 21 years since its first...
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Last Week’s Doctor Who Recap: ‘The Curse of The Black Spot’
Spoiler alert: While we will discuss what happened in last Saturday’s episode, we’ll avoid talking about any future plot details. This week’s episode was my kind of Doctor Who: a sharp, self-contained...
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Last Week’s Doctor Who Recap: ‘The Doctor’s Wife’ by Neil Gaiman
SPOILER ALERT: While we will discuss what happened in last Saturday’s episode, we’ll avoid talking about any future plot details. WARNING: This episode has nothing to do with Doctor River Song. We will...
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Review: Anya’s Ghost
As I’ve mentioned before, I don’t read a lot of graphic novels. And when I do, my taste seems to run less towards fantasy than memoir. But when an unsolicited copy of Anya’s Ghost from publisher First...
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Last Fortnight’s Doctor Who Recap: “The Rebel Flesh”
SPOILER ALERT: While we will discuss what happened in last Saturday’s episode, we’ll avoid talking about any future plot details. Last week, BBC America skipped a week of Doctor Who, presumably because...
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Happy Birthday, Neil Gaiman!
Today, a great geek, literary and comic book icon celebrates a birthday. There is not much that can be told about Neil Gaiman that you can’t find on his brooding website or his Wikipedia entry. There...
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Happy Birthday to Doctor Who!
It was 48 years ago tonight, Doctor Who taught the world to play in time and space. It was the day after the world had changed. U.S. President John F. Kennedy had been assassinated in Dallas, Texas,...
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The Avengers: Why the Myth of Hawkeye Is More Important
An article that ran yesterday on GeekDad by Jim MacQuarrie made it very clear that, from the standpoint of professional archery, Hawkeye couldn’t hit the broadside of Tony Stark’s mansion. With my...
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Comics as Literature, Part 1: The Usual Suspects
Okay, I've had my rants (here and here) about comics being serious literature but those were really more about being pedantic than the actual appreciation of comics. So I started compiling my lists and...
View ArticleNeil Gaiman Announces New Prequel to The Sandman!
Nearly a quarter century after the first issue of Neil Gaiman's incredible series, The Sandman, was released, Gaiman has madea very exciting announcement.
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Naughty and Nice: A Game of Words
I have a game that I play with my son. We read books before bed together every night (my wife and I take turns), and each time he and I read, we play the game. The game doesn't have a name, ...
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Happy Birthday, Neil Gaiman!
Today, Neil marks the completion of his 52nd orbit around our local star, and what a successful 52 solar revolutions it has been!
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Dork Tower Monday
Find the Dork Tower webcomic archives, DT printed collections, more cool comics, awesome games and a whole lot more at the Dork Tower website: www.dorktower.com.
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The Price Animatic Offers a Glimpse Into Neil Gaiman’s World
Filmmaker Christopher Salmon releases the animatic which landed him the support of Neil Gaiman for the adaptation of his short story, The Price.
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