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Interview: Ask Cartoonist Jay Hosler
By Sweetwind, Section Interviews Posted on Sun Jan 25, 2004 at 02:25:27 AM PST
SciScoop is pleased as punch to announce that Dr. Jay Hosler has agreed to be interviewed by our community. Hosler is exactly the kind of science popularizer we need more of - the kind that people don't necessarily realize is a science popularizer. His Xeric award-winning, Eisner Award-nominated graphic novel Clan Apis can easily be read as simply a gripping story (whose main characters happen to be insects). His most recent work, The Sandwalk Adventures, is more overtly science-oriented (when was the last time you read a comic starring Charles Darwin?) but no less enthralling. Besides cartooning, Hosler also teaches at Juniata College and researches neurobiology in honeybees. Take a look at a few of his science cartoons on the web, and read the story of how he discovered he had become allergic to bees, and let the interview begin! Here at SciScoop, YOU ask the questions. If you don't already have a free account, what are you waiting for? Sign up now and post your questions all week long on this story. You are strongly encouraged to also rate each other's questions during the week. At the end of Sunday, February first, the top-rated questions will be sent to Jay Hosler and his responses will be posted here when ready.

Interview: Ask Cartoonist Jay Hosler | 11 comments (11 topical, 0 hidden)

Next Project? (5.00 / 1) (#4)
by Sweetwind on Tue Jan 27, 2004 at 04:59:36 AM PST

I didn't see any news about upcoming projects on your web site, have you started working on a new series or graphic novel? (Please say yes! :-) ) What kinds of topics would you like to tackle next?

Influences? (5.00 / 1) (#5)
by Sweetwind on Tue Jan 27, 2004 at 05:20:54 AM PST

I had forgotten about Good ol' Charlie Darwin when I compared the mites of The Sandwalk Adventures to Charlie Brown and Linus in my review. So, I take it Charles Shultz was an influence on you, and perhaps Beanworld too (based on your reading matter in a panel of Killer Bee). Who would you say are your primary creative influences?

Education (5.00 / 1) (#7)
by rickyjames on Sat Jan 31, 2004 at 09:51:47 AM PST

You are both on the staff of Juniata College and the father of a four-year-old that will soon be starting kindergarten. As someone with vested interests at both ends of the educational experience, what's your opinion of the vast middle? What's your take on the strengths and weaknesses of the elementary schools that your son will soon attend and the high schools that graduate those you lecture to? What would you do to change or strengthen these institutions, so they produce better students and thinkers?

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Evolution (5.00 / 1) (#8)
by rickyjames on Sat Jan 31, 2004 at 10:00:13 AM PST

Teaching evolution in the classroom is a hot button topic. Just today I read that Georgia's State Superindendent of School's Kathy Cox proposes that the word "evolution" be taken out of textbooks and the wording "biological changes over time" be put in in its place. Your comics promote Darwin and evolution to children; what's your take on this natonwide effort to prevent children from coming in contact with ideas your espouse?

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Bees and Land Mines (5.00 / 1) (#9)
by rickyjames on Sat Jan 31, 2004 at 10:07:29 AM PST

Your specialty research area is the Pavlovian conditioning of honeybees. This has become a very hot national security topic with recent results suggesting such conditioning can train bees to "sniff out" landmines. Are you familiar with the work of Jerry Bromenshenk at University of Montana and others in this area, and do you have any comments on training bees for practical substance detection?

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Preferred subject matter (4.50 / 2) (#3)
by apsmith on Mon Jan 26, 2004 at 04:36:01 PM PST

Most of your drawings seem to be on biological topics - at least looking at the website and some other things I seem to recall of yours. Do you find biology topics easier to draw, or just more fascinating? Or do you think there's just a wider audience for that subject? Or is there just more variety? With theoretical physics I can see how Harris sort of covered it with all his drawings of rotund professors at the chalkboard :-)

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Great! Another science cartoonist! (4.00 / 1) (#1)
by Drog on Mon Jan 26, 2004 at 07:36:10 AM PST

I'm a big fan of science cartoonist Sidney Harris, having stumbled across his book "What's So Funny About Science?" ages ago. Do you and him hang out and swap funny science jokes over beers? :)

I had always hoped to stumble across another science cartoon one day, so I will definitely buy your graphic novels. I'm wondering though, if you would ever consider creating a daily strip that might have more exposure?

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Vocation/Avocation (4.00 / 1) (#6)
by Sweetwind on Fri Jan 30, 2004 at 03:53:11 AM PST

Do you consider your research and teaching career a "day job"? That is, if your cartooning career began to bring in more money, would you quit (a la Scott Adams)?

Movie Options? (3.00 / 1) (#2)
by jayrtfm on Mon Jan 26, 2004 at 10:55:05 AM PST

Have any of your books been optioned for a movie/tv/video? If so, what's the status of the project?

Active Synapse (3.00 / 1) (#10)
by rickyjames on Sat Jan 31, 2004 at 10:13:27 AM PST

Your award-winning works are published by Active Synapse. Is this your own publishing company? Have any of the more mainstream publishers, comic book or trade book, expressed any interest in publishing your works so they might reach a wider audience? Any interest in movie offers from Pixar or other studios? What business possibilities do you see that would bring your works to a wider audience, or is that even important to you?

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Beekeeping (3.00 / 1) (#11)
by rickyjames on Sat Jan 31, 2004 at 10:17:02 AM PST

Do you or those around you have any practical experience in beekeeping? Any comments on the severe problems being faced by agricultural bees in America today, such as mites, pesticides and Africanized bees moving in?

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