Tag Archive | "science"

Evolve or die

Thursday, May 26, 2011

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One of the blog’s consistent fave creators, Darryl Cunningham, gives us a peek at another of his pop science comics, which this time will be tackling the subject of evolution. I was going to say the ‘controversial’ subject of evolution, but then thought nope, it is only controversial if you deliberately decide to ignore decades [...]

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Yuri’s Day

Thursday, March 10, 2011

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This spring will mark the fiftieth anniversary of one of the most remarkable events not only of 20th century history but of all of human history. It’s April the 12th, 1961 and something is about to happen that has never happened in all the long ages of the world; a mere few decades after the [...]

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Cosmos and Cosmic, Kirby meets Sagan

Wednesday, January 26, 2011

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(Cosmos and Sagan in Kirby style by and (c) Kyle Latino) As regular readers know, as well as being a comics and SF geek I’m also a lifelong space geek. And one of the formative influences on me as a kid was the fabulous science series Cosmos by the late and much missed Carl Sagan. [...]

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Movement from the still image

Friday, March 19, 2010

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We know that animation creates the illusion of movement through a rapid sequence of still images (as indeed does traditional celluloid film, including live action) and that comics creators have long used various devices and tricks to imply action and motion from a still frame to the reader’s eye. The excellent New Scientist has an [...]

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Of voyages, Beagles, Darwin and comics

Thursday, October 15, 2009

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You might remember earlier this year illustrator and comics creator Simon Gurr worked with Eugene Byrne on a comics biography of Charles Darwin which was given out to school children and others to encourage more reading of the natural sciences and to mark the 200th anniversary of the birth of Darwin. Now on his blog [...]

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On this day…

Thursday, July 16, 2009

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On this day, forty years ago, human beings began the great odyssey to the Moon. The enormous engines on one of the largest craft ever built ignited and a huge Saturn V ascended into the skies on a blistering column of fire. Take a moment to just think about that. Its too easy now for [...]

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