Serious Science Links:
- Doctors Without Borders – One of the best medical organizations out there. If I ended up studying surgery instead of doing an MD PhD, this is where I’d go.
- HIV Web – sequence, resistance, immunological, and clinical trial databases from LANL.
- Merck Online Medical Library – A useful, easily navigable reference for human diseases.
- NCBI and PubMed – These people are brilliant and own a large chunk of my soul. NCBI is home to BLAST (formerly WUBLAST), the legendary sequence matching algorithm. Probably the most useful extracranial tool of any microbiologist.
Me & Me Buddies:
- AUTOCLAVE – DC’s an my (sporadic) joint comic venture. DC’s portfolio site likewise rocks.
- Library Thing online bookshelf – It’s a fun way to share nerdhood & good reads. Recommendations are always appreciated.
- Other art and photography by yours truly can be found on Atpic or, more currently and to my deep embarrassment, on my DA page.
- CFW Photography is Über Rat’s gallery, which is gorgeous.
Brilliant Comics:
- The Abominable Charles Christopher – This artist seems to combine Waterson, Kelley, Miyazaki, and Lewis, with an element of Hergé. I get a kick out of the advertising skunks.
- Bird Boy and Caeldian – Such pretty work.
- Digger – A wombat engineer who dug a tunnel into a different universe and now has to deal with gods, hyenas, and vampire squash, among other things. Now complete, it remains among the best comics out there, and probably my favorite.
- Der Familienvater – Also known as Family Man, this is a great comic about a young scholar out of favor with his own university and religion being given a rather unorthodox second chance.
- Girl Genius – The rip-roaring adventures of a young spark, Agatha Heterodyne, as she takes on Jägers, clanks, mysterious occult forces, and Europe’s overlord (s), sometimes all at once! It’s a Foglio creation, so you know it will be better than good.
- Gunnerkrigg Court – A wonderfully strange adventure that makes you pull out your Bullfinch’s with regularity.
- Hanna Is Not A Boy’s Name – Wild times accompany the spastic but strangely competent Hanna Falk Cross, paranormal investigator, as he faces the unknown with a crew of unlikely supernaturals and his imperturbable partner, Mr. [...].
- Hark! A Vagrant – Kate Beaton is perpetually amazing.
- Hero: A Story – Italo Calvino meets Antoine de Saint Exúpery as a young boy goes in search of a city. Gorgeous artwork, enchanting characters, and sensible philosophy. Doesn’t update often, but quite worth the wait.
- Kaspall – An off-world detective story told in a great idiom. I can’t pigeon-hole it, which tells me it’s doing things right, and it’s drawn by an engineer! Woot!
- Kukuburi – Fantastic, gorgeous, surprising story. It’s by Ramón Pérez, so no surprise there.
- Lackadaisy – Bootlegging cats in prohibition St. Louis. Something about it reminds me of Walt Kelly’s Pogo, but I can’t put my finger on it.
- The Meek – likely needs no introduction.
- PhD – Piled Higher and Deeper. The life of the grad student. This will be me in a distressingly short time.
- reMIND – lizard men and talking cats and windmills.
- Thistil Mistil Kistil – fun for the Norse mythologist.
- Two Keys and Todd Allison & the Petunia Violet- Two lovely titles on mangamagazine.net (which is free, btw). In one, an ex-PI-turned-restaurateur gets shanghaied into a new investigation by a pretty, manipulative, blond noir dame. In the other, a girl decides to investigate her introverted biochemist neighbor.
- Two Rooks – Nifty black and white art with wonderful characters and splashes of color. Very Sin City-esque.
- Unsounded – Great art & excellent world crafting.
- the rest of the eye candy: Antagonist , Bad Machinery , Dresden Codak , Fey Winds , Flaky Pastry , Hereville , The Locked Maze, Metrophor & Mixed Myth , Roza , Shatterlands, Terinu , Toilet Genie , True Magic, The Wormworld Saga
Tangential links:
- Amani – The site for Amani Home for Street Children in Moshi, Tanzania. Go.
- Bolt City – Kazu Kibuishi’s website, full of fantastic news about the animation world. Home to the inimitable Copper.
- Evil Mad Scientist Laboratories – Oh, such fun!
- Felaxx’s Gallery – Amy Kim Ganter-Kibuishi’s website and home to what I still hope will become one of the best printed comics: Reman Mythology.
- Hassan Massoudy Calligraphy – Calligraphy means, literally, beautiful writing. Massoudy, whose work was on display a few years ago at the British Museum, takes the already graceful Arabic script and transforms it into breathtaking art.
- Instructables – just fun for the tinkerer.
- MAKE Magazine – crazy more fun for the tinkerer
- Space Quotes to Ponder – an awesome little page with quotes by many people smarter than I on why space exploration is essential. It’s curated by Sylvia Engdahl. How cool is that?
