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LATEST ARTICLES ( 104 )

• Have a Brainy New Year

  

  Despite everything 2017 was a pretty good year for me, probably one of the best I had. I published two books (Cervellopoli + The Senses) and spent most of my... Read more

  Posted on 31 December 2017 COMIC BOOKS, ENTERTAINMENT

• The Senses

  

  Rumors have reached me that some friends of mine still didn’t know I have a new book out, so I guess I’m miserably failing at this whole self-promotion thing. Read more

  Posted on 10 December 2017 COMIC BOOKS, ENTERTAINMENT

• The Trial

  

  Hey, I have a new short comic in the latest issue of LÖK ZINE on the theme of TRIAL/PROVA. It is a sci-fi story about automation, free-will and artificial... Read more

  Posted on 04 November 2017 COMIC BOOKS, ENTERTAINMENT

• Winter is Coming

  

  The leaves are starting to turn in New York and so I have decided to dig out this double page spread that I made last Fall. This was meant as the opening for a... Read more

  Posted on 15 October 2017 COMIC BOOKS, ENTERTAINMENT

• Fall Events

  

  I have been holed up in NYC for most of the Summer but this Fall I have a new book coming out (The Senses) and I have been invited to some pretty amazing... Read more

  Posted on 25 September 2017 COMIC BOOKS, ENTERTAINMENT

• Massive Cards

  

  This last year I had less and less time to draw as my research project advanced. It’s sad, but I always knew that it would be difficult to combine science and... Read more

  Posted on 22 July 2017 COMIC BOOKS, ENTERTAINMENT

• March for Science!

  

  I made a quick motivational illustration to promote the march for science, happening next month on April 22nd. Feel free to repost it, print it, or use it any... Read more

  Posted on 22 March 2017 COMIC BOOKS, ENTERTAINMENT

• Frankenstein Aldini

  

  I have just returned from ASU Emerge, an art and science festival in Tempe, Arizona. The theme of the 2017 edition was Frankenstein, “a 200-year old novel that... Read more

  Posted on 28 February 2017 COMIC BOOKS

• Cervellopoli

  

  After more than a year spent working on it I can finally announce that Cervellopoli, my first children’s book, is now published! Read more

  Posted on 22 January 2017 COMIC BOOKS, ENTERTAINMENT

• Christmas (Island) Special

  

  Christmas is upon us and I realised that I have been so busy this year (between my new research project and my new books) that I didn’t have time to draw any... Read more

  Posted on 23 December 2016 COMIC BOOKS

• The Djerassi Fog

  

  It has been almost 2 months since I returned from my Djerassi residency and my life in NYC couldn’t have been more different from the peaceful month spent on th... Read more

  Posted on 17 September 2016 COMIC BOOKS, ENTERTAINMENT

• The Fog

  

  Since I arrived at the Djerassi residency I have been particularly fascinated by the fog that rolls up the mountains at night (I guess you can tell it’s my firs... Read more

  Posted on 23 July 2016 COMIC BOOKS, ENTERTAINMENT

• Mysteryland

  

  From the 10th to the 12th of June I’m going to be at the Mysteryland festival to help out with the Flavor Feast organized by Guerrilla Science. Read more

  Posted on 05 June 2016 COMIC BOOKS, ENTERTAINMENT

• Green UCL

  

  UCL asked me once again to draw some illustration for their Sustainability Annual Report. This year they decided to go digital and present their results with... Read more

  Posted on 01 June 2016 COMIC BOOKS, ENTERTAINMENT

• Alexander Von Humboldt

  

  The Prussian scientist Alexander von Humboldt has occupied a special place in my heart since I read Andrea Wulf‘s The Invention of Nature last year. Read more

  Posted on 06 May 2016 COMIC BOOKS

• CognitionKit

  

  Another commissioned illustration, this time for CognitionKit, a new joint venture between Cambridge Cognition and Ctrl Group. Read more

  Posted on 19 April 2016 COMIC BOOKS, ENTERTAINMENT

• Visual Narratives For Science Communication

  

  I have a little announcement to make, so please allow me an unusually long post. When I decided to become a freelance cartoonist in 2013, after finishing my PhD... Read more

  Posted on 09 April 2016 COMIC BOOKS, ENTERTAINMENT

• Ctrl Group

  

  My first commission of the year was this crowd illustration for Ctrl Group, a research and design company working in the field of digital healthcare and... Read more

  Posted on 01 March 2016 COMIC BOOKS, ENTERTAINMENT

• Shadow Biosphere

  Hey, did you know that you can now preorder the new issue of LÖK ZINE which is all about cryptozoology? Personally, I contributed with a double illustration... Read more

  Posted on 01 February 2016 COMIC BOOKS, ENTERTAINMENT

• Human Brain Project

  

  For a long time I meant to write something about the troubled history of the Human Brain Project, the EU flagship project which promises to create a computer... Read more

  Posted on 18 January 2016 COMIC BOOKS, ENTERTAINMENT