Spectra – Issue 5: Turbulent Times

Posted on March 23, 2013 Posted in American Center for Physics, American Physical Society, APS, cartoon, character, comic book, comics, physics, physics central, Poster Design, SpectraTagged American Physical Society, anime, books, cartoon, comic, comic book, comics, illustration, physics, PhysicsCentral, science, science-physics, SpectraLeave a comment

Spectra the comic book series that I illustrate for PhysicsCentral.com. In March, the author and I completed Issue #5. – Spectra: Turbulent Times. We tried something new with the cover paper, check out the “metallic-silver” coated paper stock.

Spectra_All_Comics — Spectra the comic book series that I illustrate for PhysicsCentral.com. In March, the author and I completed Issue #5. – Turbulent Times. We tried something new with the cover paper, check out the “metallic-silver” coated paper stock.

PhysicsQuest and Nikola Telsa visited Kenya

Posted on April 8, 2010April 8, 2010 Posted in American Center for Physics, American Physical Society, physics, physics centralTagged American Physical Society, APS, cartoon, comic book, illustration, Nikola, Nikola Tesla, physics, PhysicsCentral, PhysicsQuest, science-physicsLeave a comment

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

Posted on April 5, 2010 Posted in American Center for Physics, American Physical Society, APS, cartoon, cartoonist, character, comic book, comics, physics, physics central, SpectraTagged American Physical Society, APS, science-physics, Spectra, superheroLeave a comment

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

Posted on March 11, 2010March 11, 2010 Posted in American Center for Physics, American Physical Society, APS, cartoon, cartoonist, character, comics, Johnson, Kerry, physics, physics central, SpectraTagged American Center for Physics, American Physical Society, APS, comic, comic book, comics, illustration, Kerry G. Johnson, PhysicsQuest, science-physics, SpectraLeave a comment

Here’s an online flip page version of the recent comic.

http://issuu.com/spectralaser/docs/spectra_no.02_entire_optimiz

SPECTRA – The Original Laser Superhero

Posted on October 2, 2009October 2, 2009 Posted in American Physical Society, character, comic book, comics, SpectraTagged activity, american, APS, book, caricature, cartoon, coloring, comic, comics, education, electricity, experiment, experiments, genius, girl, hero, high, illustration, Johnson, Kerry, laser, laserfest, lasers, light, lightning, Linked In, LinkedIn, middle, middle school students, physical, physics, PhysicsQuest, quest, rebecca, school, science, science-physics, scientist, society, Spectra, students, superhero, thompson-flaggLeave a comment

Working with writer Rebecca Thompson-Flagg, we recently completed PhysicsQuest 2009: SPECTRA – The Original Laser Superhero. Here is a link to the e-book version. SPECTRA E-Book. It also will be uploaded to the http://www.physicscentral.com website next week.

Spectra cover by Kerry G. Johnson