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Geeks, Girls, and Super Identities - new kids' novel with great illustrations by Mike Maihack

Mark Frauenfelder at 9:08 am Wed, Oct 3, 2012

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I admire the work of illustrator and cartoonist Mike Maihack. His simple line art, subdued color palette, and quietly humorous illustrations remind me a bit of Seth, if Seth liked to draw female superheroes. I just found out Mike illustrated a kids' novel called Geeks, Girls, and Super Identities. Check out a few of his illustrations here.

Throughout last year I Illustrated a fantastic book by author Mike Jung titled Geeks, Girls, and Super Identities -- and that book is officially out this week! … The gist is this: superhero fanclub, giant robot, school-yard crush, evil plot, exciting twist, lots-of-action.

I illustrated the jacket and 40 or so interior illustrations for GG&SI, most of wich consisted of drawing said giant robot, a beefy superhero, a goonies-esque trio, and one punky young gap-toothed girl. Oh and pizza. I also drew a bunch of pizza. It was a great gig. I know I’m biased but I can’t recommend the book highly enough. It’s just super fun.

Geeks, Girls, and Super Identities

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Mark Frauenfelder is the founder of Boing Boing and the editor-in-chief of MAKE and Cool Tools. Twitter: @frauenfelder. Come and hear Mark speak at the ALA conference in Chicago on July 1.

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jorgenfleisterman

I hope there are some privilege-denying friend-zone guys wearing trilbies in the book to properly represent the breadth of geekdom.
Chentzilla

The cover clearly says “Secret Identities”
- mikemaihack
  
  That’s my fault. I wrote my blog post late last night and got all discombobulated. Pretty sad when an artist can’t correctly title the book he drew. :P