Image: Steve Bialik Last September we blogged about the awesome Ninja Star: Wars prints by Steve Bialik. These clever Japanese woodblock-inspired posters depicted beloved Star Wars characters as if they were right out of an illustrated samurai epic. Bialik is back with four more prints set in his alternate Star Wars ...

Star Wars: The Clone Wars returns from its winter hiatus to conclude a three-part story arc about the alliance between the Separatist forces and the Zygerrian slavers, who resent the Jedi for forcing them to give up their lucrative trade. (Devoted readers of The Clone Wars comic will remember that ...

Artist Bellino Alain makes things from materials you would find at a demolition site. Fixtures, spoons, and even small statues are recycled to make works of art. Check out his video and photos of this amazing Darth Vader bust over at The Behance Network. You’ll also be able to view ...

For New Year’s this year we rented a house in the Catskills with our good friends and their son. He and my daughter have been best friends since birth, and they’re now six years old. Our plans for the weekend were simple: eat delicious food, drink delicious drinks, and introduce ...

Everyone knows that Darth Vader was voiced by James Earl Jones and acted by David Prowse; fewer realize that The Empire Strikes Back and The Return of the Jedi also featured an actual sword fighter for the lightsaber scenes. That man was Bob Anderson, a British fencer, who has died ...

Some people dreamed of growing up to be a Stormtrooper and some of us actually made it there. Since February 2011, I have been a proud and active member in the 501st Legion also known as Vader’s Fist. The 501st legion is a worldwide professional costuming club that specializes in ...

As a native of South West France, surfing — the original, water-based kind, not the kind you’re doing right now — has been one of my favorite hobbies for quite some time. My move to the Netherlands and (to be honest) my questionable surfing skills have now made my practice ...

Follow-up gifts can be tough. That’s especially true if you know someone who got a YT-1300 Corellian Freighter for Life Day – or any similar celebratory occasion. Fortunately, there’s the forthcoming Del Rey / Haynes Hardcover Millennium Falcon Owner’s Workshop Manual for DIY starship owners – and possibly a few ...

In terms of movie magic, there is one company that has done more to help directors suspend reality and create the fantasy lands, unique creatures, and action scenes that simply cannot exist in this world. From the Battle of Yavin in Star Wars to the incredibly complex attack that the ...

Derek Van Gorder and Otto Stockmeier have a dream: To create a science fiction film, but without the space-age effects. In other words, to eschew the digital, and favor the analog. Their movie C, which follows the story of an idealistic flight officer who hijacks a spaceship during an interplanetary cold ...