Dolls aren’t only for kids, especially when we’re talking about Blythe, Pullip, Monster High and other super cute, mostly Japanese-inspired dolls. Artists from around the world use these ball-jointed dolls… Read the rest of the article: The Doll Scene: crazy, cool, custom-designed dolls

Wink Fun celebrates stuff that is fun, and we mean the kind of fun that's made from atoms – not bits. We mean putty you can bounce, slime you can… Read the rest of the article: Wink Fun – reviews of the best games, toys, and puzzles

Vegetables in Underwear, released today, wins first place for the cutest and most original book for toddlers learning to shed their diapers. Jared Chapman’s adorably bright and bold illustrations of… Read the rest of the article: Vegetables in Underwear

A graphic look at Ayn Rand’s life, libertarianism, the financial crisis of 2008, and where the financial world is headed now

At first glance, I thought The Mystery Writers of America Cookbook might be too gimmicky to take seriously – recipes by top mystery authors, including Mary Higgins Clark, Gillian Flynn,… Read the rest of the article: The Mystery Writers of America Cookbook

Calling all writers! Wink needs reviewers! Wink is launching a new site, Wink Fun, which will feature daily reviews of games, toys, puzzles, kits, extreme sports gear, dolls, and anything… Read the rest of the article: Write for Wink – and get paid!

After the Russian Revolution in 1917, the Soviet Union was flooded with striking posters spreading communist propaganda.

Focusing on historical and modern-day crime, mostly in the United States, Mysteries of the Criminal Mind takes a look at the social environment, upbringing, genetics, DNA, and other factors that… Read the rest of the article: Mysteries of the Criminal Mind is a fascinating read, but not for the light-hearted

When I was 8 years old I was the only girl in a backgammon tournament of almost all older men. The gray-haired gentleman I was playing in the first round… Read the rest of the article: An Illustrated Book of Bad Arguments

Relae: A Book of Ideas is marketed as a cookbook, but it’s so much more.

The New Way Things Work, published in 1998, was an updated version of the original 1988 The Way Things Work edition. Although technically not “new” anymore, this wonderfully illustrated encyclopedia… Read the rest of the article: An encyclopedia of how keys, scissors, pianos, telescopes, self-winding watches, and hundreds of other things work

Dr. Stanley Burns has collected over 1-million medical photographs from the 1800s and early 1900s, when posing for a professional portrait in the style of a painting was trendy.

History of the World in 1000 Objects opens up with a simple stone handax for cutting and digging made around 1.65-million years ago and ends, 999 artifacts later, with satellites… Read the rest of the article: History of the World in 1,000 Objects

Imagine Mark Twain’s Tom Sawyer told in Family Circus comic strip style, Alice in Wonderland’s Alice as a rude fat brat with a Valley-girl accent, Little Red Riding Hood as… Read the rest of the article: The Graphic Canon of Children’s Literature

Although the No Nukes slogan hearkens back to a louder, more passionate era of demonstrators of the 1970s, To the Village Square is a stark reminder that nuclear disasters are… Read the rest of the article: To the Village Square – a photojournalist’s collection of anti-nuke images that span the last 40 years

Pop-Up Op-Art is more a piece of 3D art than it is a book. With each turn of the thick cardboard pages pops a bold and modern structure created by… Read the rest of the article: Pop-Up Op-Art book is more a piece of 3D art than it is a book

Leif Erikson, the Viking explorer, is usually just briefly touched on in elementary school classrooms. But his rich story is a captivating one that any child – or adult –… Read the rest of the article: Leif the Lucky – A gorgeously illustrated bio on Leif Erikson, the first European to set foot in America

Mike Davis, owner of the well-known Everlasting Tattoo shop in San Francisco, is also a surrealist artist whose rich and dreamlike oil paintings look as if they’ve been plucked right… Read the rest of the article: Dreamscapes of marching military eggs, animated skeletons, anthropomorphic insects and other phantasmic scenes

Just released today is Pippi Won’t Grow Up, Drawn and Quarterly’s third volume of Pippi Longstocking comics. Last spring I reviewed the hilarious second volume, Pippi Fixes Everything, and this… Read the rest of the article: Pippi Won’t Grow Up – Whimsical, charming and wonderfully absurd

In May I reviewed Charles Burns’ surreal and darkly realistic graphic novels, X’ed Out (2010) and The Hive (2012), and now the eerie trilogy is complete with the release of… Read the rest of the article: Sugar Skull – nightmare continues in Charles Burns’ grotesquely fantastic trilogy