Category Archives: origin of life

26 Food Finders

Posted on October 28, 2011 by

I guess it doesn’t make a lot of sense that I shied away from the leaf illustration when I keep using animals everywhere.  It was just so hard to keep illustrating the concepts of life without using any real life … Continue reading →

Posted in biology, cartoon, comic, evolution, origin of life, scavenger | 2 Comments

22 Sex!

Posted on October 22, 2011 by

If I were a shrewd marketing professional I would probably do a better job of advertising that this book explains SEX.  Albeit in a very unsexy way.  But it couldn’t be skipped, as sex is a fundamental part of life … Continue reading →

Posted in biology, cartoon, DNA, evolution, origin of life, sex | Tagged | Leave a comment

20 DNA Spiraling out of Earth

Posted on October 19, 2011 by

Designing and drawing the spiraling double-helix featuring my new interlocking nucleotide letters was quite the challenge.  I found a ton of DNA reference images and two proved to be particularly helpful, but they each represented one end of the DNA … Continue reading →

Posted in DNA, Earth, evolution, genetics, origin of life | Leave a comment

17 The Primordial Soup Bubbles Over

Posted on October 14, 2011 by

Using the metaphor of waiting for the primordial soup to boil seemed like a good way to show how slow the process could have been.  Of course, once it hits that tipping point it explodes into life and starts to … Continue reading →

Posted in beer, biology, evolution, homebrew, origin of life, Uncategorized | Leave a comment

14 The First Spark

Posted on September 16, 2011 by

I did a lot of revisions of the text on this page.  In fact, I think in the first couple of drafts I didn’t have hardly any of this.  Initially I didn’t know how to write about this part since … Continue reading →

Posted in abiogenesis, illustration, origin of life, Science, Uncategorized | Leave a comment