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Two Events!

(Image above courtesy of Cellar Door Books in Riverside, CA.) Happy Thanksgiving! This coming week, there'll be two events that might be of interest to people either in the Los Angeles area, or the...

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The Geometry Door

Now that #thedialoguesbook is out is I get even more people telling me how they can’t draw. I don’t believe them. Just as with science (and other subjects), everybody has a doorway in to a subject. It...

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An Exhibit!

There’s actually an exhibit of process art for my book in the Fine Arts library at USC! Maybe of interest. There will be a companion exhibit about graphic novels over in the science and engineering...

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Make with Me!

Bay Area! You're up next! The Maker Faire is a wonderful event/movement that I've heard about for years and which always struck me as very much in line with my own way of being (making, tinkering,...

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Bull

A pair of panels from my short story “Resolution” in the Science Fiction anthology Twelve Tomorrows, out on Friday from MITPress! Preorder now, share, and tell everyone about it. See here for...

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Resolution

Today is the release of the short story anthology Twelve Tomorrows from MIT Press with a wonderful roster of authors. (It is an annual project of the MIT Technology Review.) I’m in there too, with a...

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Splashes

In case you’re wondering, after yesterday’s post… Yes I did find some time to do a bit of sketching. Here’s one that did not get finished but was fun for working the rust off… The caption from...

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Muskovites Vs Anti-Muskovites…

Saw this split over Elon Musk coming over a year ago. This is panel from my graphic short story “Resolution” that appears in the 2018 SF anthology Twelve Tomorrows, edited by Wade Roush (There’s even...

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Beach Scene…

The working title for this was “when you forget to bring your camera on holiday...” but I know you won’t believe that's why I drew it! (This was actually a quick sketch done at the beach on Sunday,...

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Jumpers, Sweaters, and So Forth…

If you've been following on instagram you'll know that I spent some time over the last weeks working on an illustration that was commissioned by a physics magazine. (Feels odd saying that,...

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Diverse Futures

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At the Perimeter

In case you were putting the kettle on to make tea for watching the live cast.... Or putting on your boots to head out to see it in person, my public talk at the Perimeter Institute has been postponed...

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Available Now!

Oh, that talk I did at Perimeter? It is available online now. It is all about the process of making the book "The Dialogues", why I did it and how I did it. Along the way, I show some examples and talk...

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Talk Prep

How do I prepare my research talks? I usually just sit down with a pencil, some paper and a cup of something warm, and I just draw/map out the story. Each box is a beat of the narrative, and ends up...

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Hexaflexagon

My big task this afternoon was not baking but making a hexahexaflexagon! I can’t tell you why right now, but as far as I know it has nothing to do with my recent paper on JT gravity in case you were...

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