Banners for the American Physical Society

When I’m not illustrating caricatures and cartoons, I stay busy working as the director of art and special publications at the American Physical Sociey in College Park, MD. Here’s a series of 3 feet by 6 feet promotional banners that I designed. They will be displayed at the association’s booth at conferences.

Spectra article on comic book industry blog

Here’s a recent review of my first comic that I had the pleasure to illustrate: SPECTRA Issue: 1. It was written by Michael D. Hamersky for his blog www.ComicBookCollectorsBlog.com. http://bit.ly/9U2nRF

PhysicsQuest and Nikola Telsa visited Kenya

My colleague Chris DiScenza visited Kenya and shared with a classroom, PhysicsQuest 2008: Nikola Tesla and the Electric Fair, the comic/activity book that I illustrated for PhysicsCentral.com. http://tiny.cc/30fr9

Physicist takes on superhero role for LaserFest

Spectra, the superhero that I co-created with physicist Rebecca Thompson-Flagg continues to make her media rounds. Here is a link to a story about Spectra’s real life alter-ego that appeared in the American Physical Society’s APS News publication. http://tiny.cc/9u730

Here’s the flipbook version of Spectra: Issue 2

Here’s an online flip page version of the recent comic. http://issuu.com/spectralaser/docs/spectra_no.02_entire_optimiz

SPECTRA: No. 2 is hot off the presses!

I just completed illustrating the second issue of the SPECTRA comic book series. Here’s a brief description of the educational comic serices: Six months have passed since Lucinda (AKA Spectra) learned about her powerful laser powers. In SPECTRA #1, Lucinda used those powers to rescue her friends from the clutches of the evil Miss Alignment. [...]

Sesame Street comes to APS

At my daytime job as the art director for the American Physical Society, there’s a holiday decorating contest. The publications department’s created a Sesame Street theme. Over the weekend, my family came by and we shot some photos.

Spectra comes to life

My co-worker Becky and I at the American Center for Physics Halloween party. She dressed up as SPECTRA, a superhero we co-created for a comic book for the American Physical Society’s outreach program http://www.physicscentral.com

Look for “Spectra” in September

COMING IN SEPTEMBER: A newly-designed postcard to promote the next edition of PhysicsQuest, an activity/comic book presented by the American Physical Society’s Outreach Department:

Physics Central’s new mascot

I recently designed the mascot for the Physics Buzz Blog: http://www.physicscentral.com The American Physical Society represents some 45,000 physicists, and most of our work centers on scientific meetings and publications-the primary ways that physicists communicate with each other. With PhysicsCentral, we communicate the excitement and importance of physics to everyone. We invite you to visit [...]