Adventures in Synthetic Biology : Nature

Check out this comic that’s appeared in the most recent Nature magazine, “Adventures in Synthetic Biology.” There’s also an interesting wiki about the artist’s process posted here.

Here’s a cartoon I originally did for a charity auction for the Winston-Salem Arts-Based Elementary School. The first version of this was executed live in an hour (although I “cheated” a bit and did a lot of the pencilling beforehand) then immediately auctioned off. This version is a commissioned re-creation of that. It chronicles the lives of three people who attend the school using a sort of Chris Ware-style diagram/comic…except instead of being depressing and maudlin it’s goofy and cutesy. (Now, where’s my copy of Kochalka’s Cute Manifesto?)

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upstatebeat.com: CITYSCAPE

J. Chris Campbell down in South Cackalacky has won “Best Artist” in this year’s Best Of issue of Greenville’s The Beat.