Optical Allusions is a science comic book funded by a grant from the National Science Foundation. The aim of this work is to develop and test a chapter of a non-majors biology text book in comic form. This particular chapter will contain 9-10 short stories focusing on different aspects of eye biology and evolution. The stories are linked by a common protagonist, Wrinkles the Wonder Brain, and his ongoing quest to find his employers' lost eyeball.

Why a science comic? Well, the trend in science proficiency in the US is not a good one:

My hope is that comic stories will present science in an engaging fashion and provide students with a context that will help them retain the material. Each chapter will be followed by two pages of text that will expand upon the ideas in the story as well as provide study questions, etc.

Click here to read an excerpt.

 

Wrinkles The Wonder Brain and all contents of the stories presented here are copyright 2006 Jay Hosler. They may not be reprinted for any purpose without the express written consent of the author.