Stories by Katie McKissick

No one hones in on the insanity and hilarity of the graduate student existence quite like Jorge Cham of PhD comics, which here doesn’t stand for doctor of philosophy, but Piled High and Deeper.

For my birthday this year, a dear friend got me something she knew I’d like: a gorgeous metal cuff bracelet with the periodic table on it.

Did you know that you can combine science and dark humor in a comic? Well, let me introduce you to See Mike Draw, a webcomic drawn by Mike Jacobsen.

Maki Naro brings what I call “serious artwork” to the science comic world. He combines the classic graphic novel style with gorgeous artistry.

Oh, what’s that? You’re looking for nature comics that are beautifully rendered, adorable, and hilarious? Hm. That’s a tough one, I’m not sure where I should send you–BIRD AND MOON.

Entrepreneurial artist Sara Zimmerman brings us science- and environmentalism-themed comics. She has a portfolio of great comics about astronomy, but she also draws inspiration from her surroundings in the Sierra Nevada mountains near Lake Tahoe.

For the whole month of September over here at Symbiartic, we’ll be doing a SciArt Blitz! Glendon got us started yesterday, and here I am contributing our first science cartoonist of the month: The Awkward Yeti.

It’s become more and more and common to hear about outbreaks of old-school diseases like measles in neighborhoods where the cultural shift has been towards anti-vaccination.

Yesterday, I came across a very interesting T-shirt design during my afternoon web surfing. The Children’s Place apparently forgot about the great “I’m too pretty to do my homework, so my brother has to do it for me” T-shirt debacle of 2011, and they decided to produce a shirt that reads, “My best subjects” and [...]