Ian Falconer published the first of the Olivia picture books in 2000, which secured a Caldecott Honor the next year and launched a popular media franchise that included a 40-episode cartoon. Falconer passed away in 2023....

Chris Hallbeck is a webcomic artist who has amused millions of readers with his three cartoons: Maximumble, Minimumble, and The Book of Biff. We've frequently featured his work here at Neatorama. Chris kindly agreed to a...

Do you like ugly mugs? Jean Cotton is here to provide them. She makes pottery of human faces that are often silly, funny, or terrifying. We featured her work last month. She's kindly agreed to an interview.Jean is a nati...

Becky McKay is The Cereal Baker, an inventor of deliciously insane recipes, including donut-stuffed cronuts and deep fried crescent roll-wrapped Girl Scout cookies. She has a special genius for conceiving of recipes that...

Here's an original approach to interviewing (warning: auto-start video). The Guardian sat children's books authors down with kids. The kids asked questions while dressed as the characters created by the authors.The featu...

Dr. Erik Kwakkel is of a rare breed: a serious intellectual and scholar who makes his studies interesting and accessible to a popular audience. He's a medieval European book historian and a professor at Leiden University...

Someone Finally Bought The Ferris Bueller House (Consumerist)We Only Wish We Had the Great Style of These Villians (Scribol)Sloth Poops Are Totally Fascinating (Geekosystem)Be Glad You Never Heard These 25 Totally Bizarr...

Beth Evans is a cartoonist in Chicago. I discovered her work a couple months ago and have been following it ever since. She draws piercingly insightful cartoons that I can immediately relate to, such as this one that I p...

Maggie Koerth-Baker, the science editor at BoingBoing, has just published an amazing new book called Before the Lights Go Out: Conquering the Energy Crisis Before it Conquers Us, about the very hard choices we face in po...

Anna Hrachovec knits a lot, but always in little quantities as you can tell from the pictures of her projects above. At one point, she challenged herself to make one tiny knitted project per week and since that point, sh...