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Cover Reveal! The Senses: Signals and Stimuli
I’m excited to share the cover for my next book in the Science Comics series, The Senses: Signals and Stimuli! Wow! Check it out!
If you think that’s exciting, just wait until you open it up. The Senses stars Paige, a young artist who thinks — no, who knows that she’s the best artist in her class. When she stumbles into a mysterious after school art club attended by animals from ants to whales, she gets a crash course in the many ways Earthlings experience our world and realizes that there’s no “right” way to do it. Featuring a star nosed sculptor, an eight legged weaver, a familiar pooch with a nose for smells, and many more, this one embodies the Science Comics call to action: get to know your universe!
I’ve briefly covered topics like vision and olfaction in previous volumes, and this gave me the opportunity to indulge my compulsion to always go one step deeper. It’s not enough to know that sounds are waves. Let’s talk about how the tiny hairs in your cochlea resonate at different frequencies to tease those waves into their constituent parts, allowing you to differentiate two instruments playing the same note. I love examing the everyday so closely that it flips all the way around to weird.
The Senses: Signals and Stimuli will be on shelves October 20 of this year from your friends and mine at First Second. Believe it or not, this is my seventh Science Comic! That’s in addition to a pair of titles in the sister series History Comics. If you haven’t read them all, it’s time to catch up!
Previously…
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I Spy With My Microscopic Eye
I write about a lot of different topics, but often as not, I find myself devoting a few pages to writing about seeing. Maybe that’s not surprising given that most folks read comics by looking at them, but nevertheless. I’ve covered how dogs see, how cats see, how trees see, and while working on my…
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Deep Time Video Reading
I recently migrated my minicomic videos over to my new YouTube channel, which was a good excuse to add another long out-of-print title to the archive. Actually, it’s also long in print!
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Praise for Good Boy
I’m blushing over here at all the nice things that readers have had to say about Good Boy since its release…
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Good Boy is now on shelves!
You know those classic boy-and-his-dog books? The tragedies about mortality in an unforgiving world? I’m not going to do that to you. I wrote Good Boy to show how much a dog and a kid can do for one another….
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Hup! What is agility anyway?
You’re an athlete on a team of two. Imagine stepping onto a court for a game where only you know the rules but only your partner can touch the ball. Now imagine that the two of you don’t speak the same language. Now that your partner won’t stop eating stuff off the ground. Good Boy…
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Blast off with HUMAN SPACEFLIGHT!
I’ve spent the morning updating the reference section over at AforAndy.com, and yowza, what a reminder of how packed this entry is…