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Jason Zimdars

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Milwaukee, WI, The United States

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Jason Zimdars is an artist and designer who has always loved to draw. He grew up immersed in stories of heroes and magic like The Lord of the Rings, Star Wars, The Dark Crystal, and E.T. He always came home from the movies or the library to draw all the amazing characters and places he saw in his imagination.

When his friend, Brandon, told him about Prince Martin he knew he had to draw him and all his friends, too. He can’t wait to share more of Prince Martin’s adventures with you!

Jason lives in Oklahoma with his teenage daughter and two dogs, who aren’t nearly as brave as Sir Ray.

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Average rating: 4.31 · 521 ratings · 73 reviews · 13 distinct works

	Prince Martin Wins His Sword (The Prince Martin Epic, #1) by Brandon Hale (Goodreads Author), Jason Zimdars (Goodreads Author) (Illustrator) 4.21 avg rating — 240 ratings — published 2017 — 6 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Prince Martin and the Thieves (The Prince Martin Epic, #2) by Brandon Hale (Goodreads Author), Jason Zimdars (Goodreads Author) (Illustrator) 4.31 avg rating — 120 ratings — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Prince Martin and the Dragons (The Prince Martin Epic, #3) by Brandon Hale (Goodreads Author), Jason Zimdars (Goodreads Author) (Illustrator) 4.44 avg rating — 77 ratings — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Prince Martin and the Cave Bear (The Prince Martin Epic, #4) by Brandon Hale (Goodreads Author), Jason Zimdars (Goodreads Author) (Illustrator) 4.45 avg rating — 53 ratings — published 2019 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Prince Martin and the Last Centaur: A Tale of Two Brothers, a Courageous Kid, and the Duel for the Desert (The Prince Martin Epic: Classic illustrated ... virtue - and turn boys into readers Book 5) by Brandon Hale (Goodreads Author), Jason Zimdars (Goodreads Author) (Illustrator) 4.32 avg rating — 25 ratings — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Prince Martin and the Pirates by Brandon Hale (Goodreads Author), Jason Zimdars (Goodreads Author) (Illustrator) 4.27 avg rating — 11 ratings — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Prince Martin and the Quest for the Bloodstone: A Heroic Saga About Faithfulness, Fortitude, and Redemption (The Prince Martin Epic: Classic illustrated ... virtue - and turn boys into readers Book 7) by Brandon Hale (Goodreads Author), Jason Zimdars (Goodreads Author) (Illustrator) 4.63 avg rating — 8 ratings — 6 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Little Prince Martin Braves the Night—to Save the Day: a Picture Book (The Prince Martin Epic: Classic illustrated adventure books that develop virtue - and turn boys into readers) by Brandon Hale (Goodreads Author), Jason Zimdars (Goodreads Author) (Illustrator) it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 4 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Honesty Pays: A Little Prince Martin Picture Book (The Prince Martin Epic: Classic illustrated adventure books that develop virtue - and turn boys into readers) by Brandon Hale (Goodreads Author), Jason Zimdars (Goodreads Author) (illustrator) 4.67 avg rating — 3 ratings — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Prince Martin and the Cave Bear: Two Kids, Colossal Courage, and a Classic Quest (Grayscale Art Edition) by Brandon Hale (Goodreads Author), Jason Zimdars (Goodreads Author) (Illustrator) it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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The Dream Machine: J.C.R. Licklider and the Revolution That Made Computing Personal

by M. Mitchell Waldrop

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Witness: A Guided Lent Journal for Prayer and Meditation

by Fr. Patrick Mary Briscoe OP

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The Soul of The Apostolate

by Jean-Baptiste Chautard

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Old books are the best books. This is a wonderfully written, funny, interesting, and technically competent story of the engineering team that designed the Eclipse MV / 8000 microcomputer in the late 1970's. It's got all the elements you'd expect: an ...more
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Old books are the best books. This is a wonderfully written, funny, interesting, and technically competent story of the engineering team that designed the Eclipse MV / 8000 microcomputer in the late 1970's. It's got all the elements you'd expect: an ...more
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Enjoyed this one. Some very practical advice, enjoyable anecdotes, and a wake-up call that raising young men isn’t a passive activity.
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Jason Zimdars rated a book it was amazing The Habsburg Way: 7 Rules for Turbulent Times by Eduard Habsburg	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
Really enjoyed this one. Habsburg is a charming writer who lovingly shares these his rules woven into anecdotes and a light history of his family.
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Jason’s Quotes

“Anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that 'my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge.'”
― Isaac Asimov

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“Act as if everything depended on you; trust as if everything depended on God.”
― Saint Ignatius of Loyola

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“If a man is to live, he must be all alive, body, soul, mind, heart, spirit.”
― Thomas Merton, Thoughts in Solitude

tags: carpe-diem, life, spirituality

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“The modern mind longs for the future as the medieval mind longed for Heaven. The great aim of modern life has been to improve the future—or even just to reach the future, assuming that the future will inevitably be “better.”
― Wendell Berry, The Unsettling of America: Culture & Agriculture

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“We long ago gave up the wish to have things that were adequate or even excellent; we have preferred instead to have things that were up-to-date.”
― Wendell Berry, The Unsettling of America: Culture & Agriculture

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