Birding Is My Favorite Video Game: Cartoons about the Natural World from Bird and Moon

Author(s): Rosemary Mosco

Humour

Amusing science cartoons about the natural world including animal dating profiles, wildlife wine pairings, threat displays of completely non-threatening animals, why hammerhead sharks have hammer heads, and much more. Birding is My Favorite Video Game is a collection of fun, quasi-educational comics combining weird science facts, cute visuals, sweet wit, and a strong environmental message. Based on the popular webcomic Bird and Moon, this collection does for biology what XKCD does for math and Hark! A Vagrant does for history. * WOMEN IN SCIENCE: There's a great deal of interest in inspirational material by and/or about women in the sciences. Mosco's comics are likely to appeal to the same motivated audience who's come out for Rachel Ignatovsky's Women in Science (over 90k copies sold): educated adult women and the girls in their lives. * SCIENCE IS HOT!: And cute science from a humorous point of view is even hotter. People are interested in science but want to learn fascinating facts in a fun, easy-to-consume way. National Geographic: 42 million Facebook fans / I F**king Love Science: 25 million Facebook fans / Science Alert: 8.5 million Facebook fans / American Museum of Natural History: 1 million Facebook fans * SOCIAL MEDIA FOLLOWING: 157k Facebook fans; 11k Twitter followers. Her most recent comic was shared over 16k times on Facebook alone.

General Information

  • : 9781449489120
  • : Andrews McMeel Publishing
  • : Andrews McMeel Publishing
  • : 0.173
  • : 17 April 2018
  • : United States
  • : books

Other Specifications

  • : Rosemary Mosco
  • : Paperback
  • : English
  • : 508
  • : 112

More About The Product

Rosemary Mosco is a science writer and artist, and she's passionate about sharing her love for the natural world. She creates the science webcomic Bird and Moon and has written and drawn for Audubon, Nature Ecology & Evolution, The Nib and more. She once spent six months drawing all 162 species of snake in the United States. Her favorite bird is the Laysan Albatross.