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LATEST ARTICLES ( 105 )

• 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

• Sotto Il Sole Giaguaro

  

  Hi all, I hope your 2016 is going well. Mine started under the sun of Mexico, where I’m spending a whole month relaxing, reading and working on my next book... Read more

  Posted on 07 January 2016 COMIC BOOKS, ENTERTAINMENT

• The New Year

  

  Quick commercial announcement: I made these fireworks postcards to celebrate the new year. You can buy them in two color variants professionally printed from... Read more

  Posted on 04 December 2015 COMIC BOOKS, ENTERTAINMENT

• Mad Scientists

  

  I’m working on so many projects at the moment that I really shouldn’t have done this, but in the end I couldn’t resist the temptation of doing a little Hallowee... Read more

  Posted on 28 October 2015 COMIC BOOKS, ENTERTAINMENT

• Goodbye Oliver Sacks

  

  I had been in New York only for a few days when Scriberia wrote me from London to ask me if I wanted to do a scribituary about Oliver Sacks. Read more

  Posted on 10 October 2015 COMIC BOOKS, ENTERTAINMENT

• Remapping

  

  It’s scientifically proven that experiencing new environments is good for your brain. Or maybe not, maybe I just made that up. Read more

  Posted on 14 September 2015 COMIC BOOKS, ENTERTAINMENT

• Refresh

  

  While I’m supposed to be working on longer and more important projects (which it’s still too early to share) I cut out some time to make an illustration for... Read more

  Posted on 28 July 2015 COMIC BOOKS, ENTERTAINMENT

• Mock Turtle, and More

  

  So, it has been a while since the last post. In the past 3 months I have been working on a project with the great people at Science-Practice, a company which... Read more

  Posted on 15 June 2015 COMIC BOOKS, ENTERTAINMENT

• Lokzine#06

  

  Horray! I can finally share the cover I made for the 6th issue of LÖK ZINE, the visionary fanzine which first published my comics. Read more

  Posted on 10 April 2015 COMIC BOOKS, ENTERTAINMENT

• 6 Degrees – 2 Years

  

  Yesterday I came back from Italy, where I presented Neurocomic at the Settimana del Cervello and gave a lecture at the Master in Communicazione della Scienza. Read more

  Posted on 23 March 2015 COMIC BOOKS, ENTERTAINMENT

• Brainy Weeks

  

  I have been kind of quiet lately. The reason is that I started working at Science-Practice two weeks ago and I’ve been too busy learning about amazing... Read more

  Posted on 16 March 2015 COMIC BOOKS, ENTERTAINMENT

• Rosetta

  

  I spent the best part of the week drawing a 6-pages comic to submit to the Stripburger open call. It’s a science-fiction story with much more ‘fiction’ than... Read more

  Posted on 27 February 2015 COMIC BOOKS, ENTERTAINMENT

• Why Do We Sleep?

  

  Here is my entry for the Flame Challenge 2015, a brilliant initiative from the Alan Ada Center for Communicating Science which challenges scientists to answer... Read more

  Posted on 14 February 2015 COMIC BOOKS, ENTERTAINMENT

• Vernon B. Mountcastle

  

  This month neuroscience lost one of its great masters: Vernon B. Mountcastle, who first discovered the columnar organization of the cerebral cortex. Read more

  Posted on 30 January 2015 COMIC BOOKS, ENTERTAINMENT

• Skin

  

  Last week I was doing some research on sensory receptors for a new project I am working on, and I noticed how most of the scientific illustrations of skin are... Read more

  Posted on 20 January 2015 COMIC BOOKS, ENTERTAINMENT

• A Love Song

  

  I always wanted to experiment with webcomics and since I discovered the presentation software Prezi I thought it could be a good way to do it. Read more

  Posted on 21 December 2014 COMIC BOOKS, ENTERTAINMENT

• THE INTERNET (poster)

  

  Remember the illustrations I did for Susan McGregor about digital security? Well, we followed up with this poster summarizing the different steps of digital... Read more

  Posted on 08 December 2014 COMIC BOOKS, ENTERTAINMENT

• Humanist Calendar 2015

  

  SPECIAL ANNOUNCEMENT: the 2015 Humanist Calendar is out! I always wanted to make a calendar that was something more than pretty pictures to hang on the wall,... Read more

  Posted on 25 November 2014 COMIC BOOKS, ENTERTAINMENT

• Autumn 2014

  

  This blog is going to be on hiatus for a while, as I will be travelling quite a lot around Italy to promote Neurocomic. In case you miss my comics, here is a... Read more

  Posted on 17 September 2014 COMIC BOOKS, ENTERTAINMENT

• Memory Caves

  

  Today has been exactly 5 months since the opening of our exhibition at The Cube. Our last event was all about memory so I made this special illustration of the... Read more

  Posted on 04 September 2014 COMIC BOOKS, ENTERTAINMENT