The Great Pacific Garbage Patch

Happy Earth Day! Did you know that the Great Pacific Garbage Patch is thrice the size of France now?

The cartoon appears in my Gocomics page. 

Pink Animals

Janelle Monae's 'Pynk' is a sensation already. Here are some 'Pynk' animals sporting her trademark vagina pants. Do you know of any more 'Pynk' animals?

Prints and apparel available on my webstore here.

Research in Translation- Green Turtles at Lanyu Island

The first comic in my series with Current Conservation magazine, 'Research in Translation', that aims to re-tell scientific papers in the form of comic strips, deals with a rather complex issue. Green Turtles in Taiwan had been having a relatively peaceful time owing to a cultural taboo of the Yami/Tao indigenous people, who perceived them as evil, and avoided any contact with them. However, recent conservation measures have back-fired, provoking the ire of the Yami community. 

Credits for the paper: Tzu-Ming Liu. 2017. Unexpected threat from conservation to endangered species: Reflections from the front-line staff on sea turtle conservation. Journal of Environmental Planning and Management, 60:2255-2271.

Prof. Andrea D. Phillott is a sea turtle biologist teaching conservation biology, ecology, and environmental studies at FLAME University in Pune, India.

Are you a conservation biologist looking to simplify your study for the layman? Follow the steps listed here and have your paper converted into a comic. 

(With thanks to Manini Bansal, Nandini Velho and Kartik Shanker)