I was contacted by a friend from the comics world about the new Intervention convention. Intrigued, I checked out the workshop list. My first thought after looking at it was “Ooo! A con that talks about web comics and how to create them.” The workshops go beyond the simple nuts and ...

Perry White has his “Great Caesar’s ghost!” Doc Brown has his “Great Scott!” Fallout Boy has “Jiminy jillikers!” And the characters in the Harry Potter stories are fond of “Merlin’s beard!” Yes, a good, solid swear phrase is always good to have ready for those times when you feel the ...

The North Carolina Science Festival kicks off on September 11th. With hundreds of events scattered across the entire state, there’s something for everyone at the first of its kind festival. One event of particular interest to most GeekDad readers is “An Afternoon with Adam and Jamie.” On September 19th at the ...

Baker’s name is not one that springs to mind immediately, but you’ve probably heard his work many, many times over the years, watching cartoons with your kids (or, being a good geek, on your own). He is a prolific voice artist, with credits spanning animated series from Star Wars: The ...

Meet Ross Daly and his Minifridge Beer Dispenser, the winner of the recent GeekDad/Ponoko/Sparkfun design competition.

Dee Bradley Baker needs no disguises. By voice alone, the actor leaves Fletch and his list of aliases in the dust, and his credits are stacked with geek power: From roles in the Halo and Gears of War franchises to regular parts in animated standouts like Batman: The Brave and the ...

My kids have become fascinated with Portal. They oversaw me watching some of the videos the other day while I was putting together a news post on Portal 2. Something about the combination of Stephen Merchant’s playground voice and the disembodied robot really caught their attention. We spent the next half ...

Mobad Games, an apps developer for children, is slightly to one side of our last feature developer, Duck Duck Moose. But they are worth keeping an eye on, and as you would have seen from GeekDad Jonathan’s recent review of My First Hidden Pictures they are producing apps that are ...

At five years old, Matthew Wood saw Star Wars. Less than two decades later, he was working for its creator. Star Wars fans know him as the supervising sound editor at Skywalker Sound and the man who gave General Grievous that hacking cough in Revenge of the Sith, and he continues ...

With principal photography in full swing, now seemed like a good time to talk about HBO’s adaptation of George R.R. Martin’s epic fantasy tale, A Game of Thrones, and the steps they are taking to give the show a high level of authenticity. Besides having Martin on board to help ...