The following blog post and photos come to you from Danny Lerner, who just experienced his first Comic Con (and lived to tell the tale!) Wow! What an event! This year’s New York Comic Con was a juggernaut of a show. It is the biggest of its kind on the east coast and in America […]Read more "The News from New York Comic Con"

In working on TFCB’s Dressing a Nation fashion series, I read about colonial girls and their samplers. Not unlike the young women of the days of yore, who learned stitching techniques through samplers, I too learned about embroidery, cross-stitching, and other needle-and-thread techniques by working on the reproduction at left of the colonial Williamsburg Chase […]Read more "Stitching through Time"

Congratulations to Osborn Here, the winner of a set of our new Tricky Journeys series! Please send an email to publicityinfo at lernerbooks dot com with your shipping address so we can send you your prize.Read more "Tricky Journeys Contest Winner!"

[I asked production editor Sarah Olmanson to give us an insight into her job. Here’s her report.] For some people, favorites are things like “raindrops on roses” and “whiskers on kittens.” But for a production editor (and maybe every other computer user), it’s hitting “Cmd+Z”* and “copy and pasting.” Yep, these are my favorite things—at […]Read more "My Favorite Keystrokes"

New York Comic Con is this weekend! It’s one of the biggest pop culture events in the country, and Graphic Universe is a part of it. Please stop by booth 1140 to see our latest releases and exciting new series. Meet our authors and artists and buy a signed graphic novel. You can even take […]Read more "Graphic Universe at New York Comic Con!"

  My siblings and I were raised in a family enamored of the footnote. But then, we had the latest copy of the Oxford English Dictionary at any given moment in time—all twenty volumes, when I was growing up—and we tend toward the digressive in our intrafamilial conversations. So it goes without saying that we […]Read more "“The Rhapsodic Grace Note”–On Its Way Out?"

I’ve been looking through our new Tricky Journeys series, which asks readers to take the place of a famous trickster figures from various multicultural folklore traditions, and it started to remind me of one of my favorite high school teachers. Mr. Raische used to teach us about revoluntionary moments in world history by walking us […]Read more "Contest: Think Like a Trickster"

Happy Ada Lovelace Day! Named for the woman widely considered the first computer programmer, this day has been set aside to highlight influential women in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM). Bloggers: if you feel so inspired, create your own Ada-themed post and link it to the official website! Of course, right now you’ll find […]Read more "Ada Lovelace Day"

I don’t have a personal remembrance of Steve Jobs, but I have, in the course of my computing life, owned a non-trivial number of Apple products (the SE/30 on the right is the first computer we ever had). You may count me among those who believe there is something great about what Apple creates (but […]Read more "Here’s to the crazy ones."