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Father’s Day Gift Idea – Adult Coloring Books for Men

I was trying to figure out a great gift for my dad who is starting to have signs of Alzheimer’s for Father’s Day and remembered that since he was a kid, he loved to design and paint large model airplanes… so why not coloring books for men? But of course, he probably wasn’t going to enjoy the flowery, tangled type that I like so I started my search for Coloring Books for Grownup Guys.

Men’s Coloring Books for All Occasions

Intricate Ink Animals in Detail Volume 3 by Tim Jeffs

Son of a Mother Trucker

A Manly Adult Coloring Book: Dad Life: Clean Dad Swears & Old Coot-isms: A Unique & Funny Antistress Coloring Gift for Men

Dad & Me Coloring Book

I received a copy of this beautiful book and was very impressed with both the illustrations, the quality but mostly with the unique idea of the softer side of fatherhood being show and celebrated throughout the book. The pages are perforated and TOP bound so it’s wonderful for lefties as well as those who want to display their creations after you color them in.

The Men’s Coloring Book by Nathaniel Wake

Nathaniel says it’s a Manly Mans Adult Coloring Book with Cyborg Women, Military Machines, Futuristic Battles, Western Armory, Fish Illustrations and Cars… however I absolutely loved this book so you might have to fight your female significant other for some of the illustrations in this book.



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Mythomorphia: An Extreme Coloring and Search Challenge by Kerby Rosanes

Animorphia

An amazing coloring book for adults featuring the super-detailed animal images from artist Kerby Rosanes. Known for his popular Sketchy Stories blog, Kerby works in intricately detailed black and white line to create creatures, characters, patterns, and tiny elements to form compositions of mind-boggling complexity. Bring your creativity to complete the breath-taking drawings and find hidden treasures and creatures scattered throughout its pages

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Imagimorphia Coloring Book by Kerby Rosanes

Fans of adult coloring books are invited to enter the weird and wonderful world of Kerby Rosanes, the illustrator behind the Sketchy Stories blog and Animorphia, the international phenomenon and New York Times bestseller. In Imagimorphia, animals and objects morph and explode into astounding detail. Bring each intricate image to life with color and find the objects hidden throughout the book.

Printed on quality paper, Imagimorphia is a quirky coloring and search book for fans of adult coloring books like no other.

Dad Life – A Manly Adult Coloring Book

Color in funny things that EVERYONE’s Dad says to them.

Die Hard Coloring Book

If you live in a house where Die Hard IS a Christmas movie tradition, then this coloring book is for you. All your favorite scenes and quotes are in this official Die Hard coloring and activity book. This coloring book from Harper Design is excellent quality. I received a sample of it from the publisher and it is Coloring Book Addict approved!

Hans Gruber and his posse crash the Christmas party at Nakatomi and take the tower hostage; John McClane’s limo ride with Argyle; The tension-filled crawl through the building vents; John’s morbid message delivery to Hans (written on the corpse of one of Hans’ men); The famous bloody footprints; And of course, John leaping off the Nakatomi tower.

The Book of Beasts

A friend of mine in Scotland (Kemberlee) ordered this book in the UK and she couldn’t stop gushing about how fabulous it was. It’s got a hardcover with fabulous paper and amazing illustrations of Dragons of all sorts. Filled with mythical monsters from around the world, The Book of Beasts will take young readers on an epic coloring quest through ancient lands and lore. As they fill in the pages, children will encounter creatures from Aboriginal, African, Mesoamerican, Greek, Roman, Indian, Norse, Chinese, and Japanese tales. On the back of each page, kids will find background on the beasts in the book.

Full Metal Coloring – A Book of Down Range Reflection

Along with the pages to color, you’ll find some historical background of the firearms and guns on each of the pages which were written by a competitive shooter and veteran who is also the artist. I have a copy of this book from the artist and have gifted it to the gun enthusiast in my life. Its original art on decent paper. As always use a sheet between your pages to avoid bleed through and pressure marks.



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Colour my Sketchbook – DRAGONS by Bennett Klein

The colored in dragons on this cover were done by members of his Facebook page linked here.

Tattoo Art Coloring Books for Men

The Tattoo Art of Freddy Negrete

I received this book from the publisher and was quite pleased with the variety of images contained inside. There is a lot to choose from but most do have a Hispanic, Chicano, Mexican flavor to them. There are lots of the Virgin Mary as well as Sugar Skulls which make sense culturally. There’s even a sugar skull Virgin Mary to color in. As a colorist, most weren’t super detailed so if you prefer that sort of coloring book this one probably won’t be your cup of tea, but if you like to add your own patterning or are learning and practicing shading and contouring this book is perfect.

Kitchen Overlord’s Colorable Compendium of Geek History: An Adult Coloring Book and Companion to the Illustrated Geek Cookbook

I haven’t seen this one in person, but its on my list and from the reviews, it looks fun. “The creators of Kitchen Overlord’s Illustrated Geek Cookbook invite you to color along with 120 years of geek history!

Start with H. G. Wells Time Machine in 1885 and bring the black and white pages to life as the world grows geekier with every decade.

See Cthulhu rise in 1928, color Captain America in 1941, leave the Shire for Mordor in 1954, boldly go on a five year mission starting in 1966, finally learn what “inconceivable” means in 1973, fight Zuul and Gozer in 1984, help the Scooby gang protect Sunnydale in 1997, become a Big Damn Hero in 2002, and help Ichabod Crane become a modern man in 2012.

You get over 50 fun illustrations representing your favorite books, comics, movies, TV, and games – arranged chronologically so you can see how geekdom has evolved over more than a century.”

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Military Coloring Books for Men

Other Military Coloring Books for Men include:

American Muscle Cars Coloring Books for Men

Expertly rendered illustrations of fast, flashy, and powerful sports cars, among them the 1962 Ford Thunderbird, 1964 Corvette Stingray, 1968 Chevy Impala SS427, 1969 Camaro Z-28, 1970 Ford Torino Fastback, 1971 Mustang Boss 351, 1974 Firebird Trans-Am, and 37 others. For coloring book enthusiasts and “muscle car” fans.

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There’s also Classic Cars of the 50’s Coloring Book

Luxury Cars Coloring Book

Sports Cars Coloring Book &

History of Trucks

Motorcycles Coloring Book – This collection chronicles over 100 years of motorcycle history with illustrations of 45 accurately detailed models, including Gottlieb Daimler Motor Bicycle (1885), 1913 Royal Enfield, 1947 Indian “Chief,” 1966 BSA A65 Lightning, and the Honda ES21 Future Motorcycle Concept Prototype.

Dover Books has a great selection of History Coloring Books

Looking for a great historical coloring book? Dover can help you add color to some of the most remarkable events in history! From dinosaurs, the Old West, the Civil War, Native Americans, the space race, American presidents and first ladies to vintage automobiles and trains, castles and cathedrals, famous explorers and inventors, historic architecture like Famous Buildings of Frank Lloyd Wright and landmarks. Black history coloring books feature authentic illustrations about the Underground Railroad, the Amistad, Barack Obama, and more. Each edition offers beautifully detailed illustrations and fact-filled captions.

The Bicycle Coloring Book

This book blew me away when I started seeing colored in pictures from it. It is filled with cityscapes and countryside illustrations that feature a bike and a cat. It’s like nothing you’ve ever seen before. The paper is fabulous art quality and the illustrations are one-sided with a center fold out section for a large poster-sized creation. On the facing side of the page is an illustration of the same cat you see in each picture (sometimes you have to hunt to find him) but what’s really cool about the cat is that when you flip the pages he animates. This will for sure bring you back to your school days when you used to make flip books. If you are a bicycle enthusiast or the man in your life is, you can’t go wrong with this coloring book. It’s 8.2 x 0.8 x 10.8 inches and has 144 pages.



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IllGottenBrain Coloring Books by Chris Guest

I wanted to add a couple of books from a new illustrator that I know guys will love. Thanks to one of my coloring group, Shawn B. for the heads up about his fun books! Meet Chris Guest aka IllGottenBrain. He has 2 books out, Beyond the Fairytale Forest and Monsters Eat Everything that you are sure to enjoy.

Walking Dead Coloring Book

This book is done in a graphic novel style so LOTS of black and background details so it’s along the lines of a gray scale coloring book. The illustrations are from the Walking Dead graphic novels and it’s very detailed. We are hoping they come out with another that follows the TV show a bit more but if you know a Walking Dead addict, this might be a perfect gift.

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Steampunk Devices

Dudes love to tinker with gadgets so this Steampunk Devices would be a great choice for the artsy guy on your shopping list.

After seeing colorings from this book on Instagram I purchased it on Amazon. It’s a greyscale book that makes your colorings really come to life. It’s hardbound book that opens at the top so great for left handed colorists too.

Lost Ocean by Johanna Basford

Although Johanna Basford is known for her pretty flowers and delicate leaves, guys can fall a little in love with her illustrations in her third Inky book, “Lost Ocean”



Visit coral reefs and barnacle-studded shipwrecks, discover intricate shells and pirate treasure. Secret Garden and Enchanted Forest fans and newcomers alike will welcome this creative journey into an inky new world.

Interview: Nick Wolven on “The Light on Eldoreth”

Tell us a bit about “The Light on Eldoreth.”

“The Light on Eldoreth” is a Swiftian satire with an unsatisfying ending. It’s a stylistic experiment with traditionalist pretensions. It’s a throwback, but I like it that way.

What was the inspiration for this story, or what prompted you to write it?

I wrote it because Facebook stole my birthday wishes. I wrote it because Twitter gave me a case of the howling fantods. I wrote it because I’m too ugly for Instagram. I wrote it because Kevin Kelly’s still wireheading dopamine hits from a utopian mirrorworld that died with the eighties arcade. I wrote it because I bought a Cory Doctorow novel about the future and it turned out to be a paean to the past. I wrote it because I didn’t know what else to do, because the skeptics were right and the prophets were wrong, because we’re living in a cyberpunk world with too much cyber and too few punks and I’m afraid that in fifty years the wasted, bonestrewn remains of the biosphere will be haunted by the uploaded ghost of Tyler Cowen.

I wrote it, in short, because I lost faith in the power of technological progress to save us from our horrible selves. That happened, actually, about ten years ago, but I’m a slow thinker and I’m still learning how to cope.

Was “The Light on Eldoreth” personal to you in any way? If so, how?

No. It’s about as impersonal as a story can get. It’s barely even a story at all, really, just a jumble of half-finished thought experiments that have been strung up on the thinnest possible thread of a plot. But it does touch on one of my personal beliefs, which is that we live in the worst of all possible worlds.

I believe our universe is a giant machine optimally calibrated for the production of suffering. The Second Law gave us chemistry, chemistry gave us life, and life gave us hungers, predations, parasitisms, diseases, deaths, and nameless terrors. Even our smallest pleasures are predicated on pain, exertion of will, destruction, dominance, consumption, control. Nature is a symphony of horrors, history a pageant of atrocities. Life is a panicked, futile flight from dread to disappointment. Our lust for love sharpens the pangs of loneliness. Our hopes are a pitiful prelude to despair. Our search for meaning serves as a garnish to toxic existential angst. Our gods become torturers thirsting for blood, our heroes are exposed as rapacious conquerors, our martyrs sacrifice themselves for the sake of evil fantasies. Our noblest dreams spur the flanks of our worst nightmares. We’re born to watch our parents die, our children suffer, to feel our bodies break and decay, to know that everything we cherish will be mocked and undone by generations to come.

The ultimate destiny of all sentient creatures is to serve the sadistic teleology of the cosmos by spreading pain throughout the stars, awakening the inert material of heaven to awareness of its own innate futility, shaping the stock resources of existence into manifold instances of a single mind screaming in infinite agony. At the end of all things, the last surviving soul will look back on the crumbled relics of negentropy and realize that, like every soul before, it lived for no purpose, suffered for no reason, and is now doomed to die alone.

Our only consolation is that this seemingly purposeless pageant of pain might serve as a source of pleasure to some higher being, a demiurge succored on our suffering, who draws from our tears the sustenance it needs to endure still higher forms of torture–and on and on, through a great chain of torment, to the supreme miseries of a cardinal god.

Can you tell us about any of the research you may have done for this story?

I could, but wouldn’t that spoil the fun?

Why do you write?

Out of habit, mostly.

Who do you consider to be your influences?

The usual folks.

Anything else you’d like to add?

The new Tool album’s a major disappointment. The Dark Crystal has always had an uncanny valley problem. Red Dead Redemption II is the Heaven’s Gate of video games. Octavia Butler’s Dawn is a problematic fave. Chimamanda Adichie is a better defender of the nation state than Jill Lepore. Wesley Morris has a point. Martin Gurri got it right. Send your wrathful comments to the editor.

“The Light on Eldoreth” appears in the 70th Anniversary Issue of F&SF.

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Best Gifts Fantasy and Scifi Fans

I love fantasy and scifi novels, movies and tv series. I guess it's the geek in me. Whether it's Harry Potter or Tolkien, Frank Herbert or Picard.

Gifts for fantasy lovers

I've found books, fairy posters, calendars, collectibles, t-shirts and comforters for you. From Goddesses, to Lord of the Rings, from Terry Pratchet's Disc World to Star Wars.

My favorite fantasy authors, movie themes and artists. I just love fantasy fiction. I do. I love Harry Potter as well as The Lord of the Rings (which my dad told us on our sunday walk). I love the mysterious art inspired by fantasy creatures. In short: I love everything about fantasy fiction. Here are my pages about the subject. LOTS of Harry Potter, but also my other favorite fantasy authors.

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Hogwarts gift ideas

What's more inspiring to kids than a school for learning magic? I can't think of much, aside from fighting bad guys and flying on broomsticks perhaps.

Harry Potter Room Decor

Dress up your room with Harry Potter pillows, plush toys, and banners. From the Marauder's map to the Snitch, from Hogwarts to Harry and his friends.

Harry Potter Candy Store, Harry Potter Sweets Shop

The genius of J. K. Rowling hasn't just created a great fantasy series, or a spin off movie set, but also. an intriguing new collection of sweets. Some.

Gryffindor gift ideas - Hogwarts is divided into four houses. Harry's house is Gryffindor, where dwell the brave of heart :)

Severus Snape Halloween Costume, including wig and outfit

Professor Snape is the bad guy, who turns out to have an actual heart. He's tough, smart and frustrated. He knows all about the dark arts, but is he really evil? Without.

Slytherin gift ideas - Slytherin is the house in Hogwarts where all the bad guys go. Perhaps you feel like a villain yourself and want to show off belonging to Snape's house?

Harry Potter Christmas gift ideas for boys and girls

If your kids love Harry Potter as much as I do (and you perhaps) they will love these gifts in their Christmas stocking. I've found posters, date books, cloths.

Ravenclaw gift ideas - Smart and sassy, perhaps that describes Ravenclaw house best. For the brainy Harry Potter fan. Luna Lovegood goes to Ravenclaw.

Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Calendars and Planners

Now that the last Harry Potter movie is out, and we all know the ending, we still can't let him go, can we? The Deathly Hallows, the Horcruxes, Ron, Hermione.

Hufflepuff gift ideas - The most boring house in Hogwarts. However, Cedric Diggory (who was killed by Lord Voldemort) went to this house.

A reader says: Proud Hufflepuff over here! I would much appreciate it if everyone would stop dissing my house. Sure, pick on the nice ones! We're not boring, we just know what we want and do what we can to get it. Need I remind everyone we had Nymphadora Tonks as well? Stop house discrimination!

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Gods and Goddesses

Where does fantasy end and religion begin? I sure don't know. In popular culture the two certainly overlap quite a lot. Whether these Goddess paintings strike you as fantasy or religious reality, they are sure beautiful and inspiring images of female power.

Susan Seddon Boulet Goddess Paintings

An artist whose art is still popular in the pagan scene, Susan Seddon Boulet will mostly be remembered for her goddess art. The mystical style of her paintings (mostly, but not exclusively, water color) strikes a core in many.

Star Wars Gift Ideas

The star wars series of movies doesn't really fit the label 'fantasy' - it's more science fiction. However, I do like Yoda and I think as a not-quite-human-with-special-powers, he may be considered 'fantasy'.

Tolkien's Fantasy World of Middle Earth

Featuring elves, trolls, orks, walking trees as well as dragons and intelligent eagles, Lord of the Rings and The Hobbit are perhaps the ultimate fantasy world.

My father read them both to us as we were growing up - both the books themselves and his summary of them on Sunday walks.

So of course we had to see the movies as a family project when they came out. Fortunately the Lord of the Rings movies lived up to our expectations, because getting our dad to a movie theater was a bit of a challenge in the first place. When I saw the first 'Hobbit' movie however, I was disappointed. The second was better, in my opinion.

A Hobbit Movie Calendar will be just the thing to help you or a fan of the story that is on your gift list this year to stay organized this year.

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In the world of fantasy art, Ciruelo Cabral's artwork is renowned. Known simply as Ciruelo, he is an accomplished painter with an international following. His artistic skills have brought the art of the dragon back into the limelight. The dragons depicted here will fascinate fantasy enthusiasts for the entire year.

Unicorn calendars - Unicorns are, as J. K. Rowling knew very well, symbols of purity. These illusive magical creatures were seen as rare, but real during the Middle Ages in Fairy Calendars: Fairies, Pixies, Elves and Nature Spirits, Gnomes, Jinns and Leprechauns. Stories for kids and yet magical for adults too. On this page I've gathered calendars featuring fairies, angels elves and pixies: from Disney versions to fantasy art for adult Susan Seddon Boulet Fantasy Calendars and Date Books - Her fantasy art uses the symbols she found all over the world. Susan Seddon Boulet (1941-1997) was a passionate student of the world religions and mythology.

As many of you know, I make a living as an online publisher. This involves writing about stuff that interests me, like the spiritual path and karma, spiritual book reviews and so on. However, to make ends meet, I also do product recommendations.

That is: I recommend products, and you - the potential customer - get to have less of a chore finding them. It's a win-win, especially since I get a percentage for each sale. The deal is this: follow a link on any of these pages and buy something, and you - without any extra cost to you - are sponsoring me to keep on going.

I've started out of course with spiritual gifts, but there are also calendars, laptops, iPads, Harry Potter gear etc. It's all stuff I have bought or would buy if my house room and pockets were infinite. They're not and that's OK.