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LATEST ARTICLES ( 110 )

• 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

• 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