2018-2021

Comics for The Niche

From 2018 to 2021 I contributed regular comic pages to the British Ecological Society’s (BES) quarterly journal, The Niche, covering a broad range of ecology topics. It was a fun and challenging opportunity to explore new research in ecology, collaborate with ecologists to share their work, experiment with new art styles, and ultimately create a series of comics that I’m really proud of.

I’ve been thinking a lot about roots lately as my apartment fills with houseplants. Each one sits in a separate pot and I find myself asking—do they know that there are other plants around them? Or are their communication pathways cut off by virtue o
My piece for The Niche for September 2020. Low on visuals, high on text. There is so much anti-racist work to be done in the name of achieving equality, and it starts by decolonising our fields—ecology included—and working to make them more inclusive
A piece for the June/July 2020 edition of The Niche from the British Ecological Society, reflecting on our relationship to nature from inside during quarantine.
A piece for the March 2020 edition of The Niche from the British Ecological Society, touching on the importance of urban nature.
What is the value of a copse of trees? This is a teaser, published in the December 2019 issue of The Niche, for an upcoming book that I’m working on in collaboration with Rob Fish from the University of Kent, called “Valuing Nature: The Roots of Tran
Celebrating Global Ecology: an illustration for the September 2019 issue of The Niche, promoting the December meeting in Belfast. I did this over the course of a few days while sitting at a table in a garden in Castagno di Piteccio, Italy, balancing
It’s June, which means another comic for The Niche, a quarterly publication from the British Ecological Society! This time I was feeling a marine vibe, so wrote about marine jellyfish and the challenges (and opportunities!) they offer. Jellyfish bloo
Beavers are back! This comic, all about beaver reintroduction to the UK, was made in collaboration with @natasha.underwood, to serve as supplementary reading for outreach and education about beaver reintroduction. It’s a reminder of the important rol
This one deals with topics within conservation, and the concept of “novel ecosystems”. Are these human-modified ecosystems a valuable resource to be studied and observed? Are they an indication that we’ve allowed ecosystems to become too modified? Sh
An ode to weeds and our complicated human relationship to them, for the British Ecological Society’s September 2018 Bulletin. Recommended reading to accompany this comic: Weeds: How Vagabond Plants Gatecrashed Civilisation and Changed the Way We Thi
Scicomm in the digital age—the topic of my master’s thesis! Social media, blogs, and other online spaces can turn science communication (scicomm) into kind of a rat race, where fast news and clickbait can seem to overpower more nuanced and informativ
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