For a fun side project, I got to test my imagination in sketching up a contest between two titans of ancient time. In an most wonderful mental exercise known as Mammal March Madness, a bracket-style series of match-ups are made between foes (almost all hail from the mammal lineage). In one category this year, Fossil Mammals, the great Paraceratherium was pitted against the Woolly Rhino. A formidable duel, to be certain. Read all about it (and get an explanation for this dramatic drawing) in my fellow mad mammal mate's post on her website: K.O. & her Charismatic Megafauna! 

Attack, extinct beasts of incredible size and power! 

After spending my summer months playing with a fun drawing tablet and software, I am pleased to share the completed series of comics all about ants, known as "Myrmex: A Comic Anthology". I was fortunate enough to contribute to this project, adding my digital stylings and verbosity to two whole comics! I focused on symbiotic relationships between ants and other species:

1. Ants & Aphids - like a farmer and his flock (of green sheep), page 24
2. Ants & Acacias - an abode earned through a strict defensive regimen, page 26-27

This project was developed with the goal of creating a series of comics to educate middle school students about ecology,  through focusing on ants. There are lots and lots and lots of ants worldwide, and they all do different and awesome things. They make a great lens through which to study science! Take a look at the comic book for yourself; it brought together a handful of scientists and illustrators for some collaboration almost as sweet as extrafloral nectar*! http://bit.ly/199F7We

*Read my ant-acacia comic to understand this reference. You may need to follow the link for higher resolution images & text.