Comics Portfolio

In addition to my prose science writing, I have written a number of nonfiction science comics with comics artist Maki Naro.

Science News Explores

  1. Looking for aliens from the far side of the moon (comic with Maki Naro, published September 16, 2025)

Knowable Magazine

  1. Bustling through the physics of crowds (comic with Maki Naro, published November 8, 2024)

The Nib

  1. Space Colonies Are (Not) The Future! (comic with Maki Naro, published in the print issue “Future”)
  2. Our Vanishing Sky (comic with Maki Naro, published in the print issue “Nature”)
  3. Of Plutonium and Pluto (comic with Maki Naro, May 24, 2021; also published in the 2020 print issue “Power”)
  4. Waiting for Herd Immunity is Not the Answer (comic with Maki Naro, September 14, 2020)
  5. When “Peanuts” Went All-In on Vaccinations (comic with Maki Naro, September 9, 2019)
  6. When Good Scientists Go Bad (comic with Maki Naro, May 15, 2019)
  7. Who Owns an Asteroid? (comic with Maki Naro, February 11, 2019)
  8. There Are Hundreds of Billions of Galaxies. Where Are All the Aliens? (comic with Maki Naro, June 25, 2018)
  9. Are We Alone in the Universe? (comic with Maki Naro, April 2, 2018)
  10. Elon Musk’s Plans for Mars Colonization Lack Vision (comic with Maki Naro, March 22, 2018)
  11. Cosmic Driftwood: What a floating rock can tell us about life in the rest of the universe (comic with Maki Naro, January 31, 2018)
  12. The Trouble With Teleportation (comics collaboration with Maki Naro, October 9, 2017)
  13. Science is Political; Don’t Let Anyone Tell you Otherwise (comics collaboration with Maki Naro, March 13, 2017)
  14. Are We Living in a Computer Simulation? Elon Musk Thinks So (comics collaboration with Maki Naro, December 5, 2016)

APS Physics

  1. The Equivalence Principle under a MICROSCOPE (comic with Maki Naro, September 14, 2022)

Vox

  1. Why are so few Nobel Prizes awarded to women? (comic with Maki Naro, December 10, 2019)