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Soft Things: Comics about science, research, & being human

CK Gormally

A scientist draws comics to share the joy of research

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#50: Swimming a new stroke

We are remade, undone, and life unfolds.

After spending years reprocessing trauma—an attic’s worth of boxes to unpack—and writing a graphic memoir about it—if you’re curious, you can read about my book here—I’m onto new adventures.

Thank...

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#49: One year book-iversary

Around their first birthday, babies become practiced at waving hello & goodbye.

Making this graphic memoir helped me practice saying goodbye & hello.

Soft Things: Comics about science, research, & being human is a reader-supported publica...

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#48: My favorite question

Recently, I’ve been struggling to draw.

I have two new projects underway. Yet, I’m struggling to draw.1 Maybe I’m struggling to draw because I have new projects underway. Maybe this is part of the process.

When I am struggling—in art and...

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#47 Past-Me & Me-Now

My graphic memoir, Everything is Fine, I’ll Just Work Harder came out in April. Since then, I’ve enjoyed doing various book events. At every event, people have asked “what’s it like having a memoir out in the world?” Every time I’m asked, I...

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#46 All the versions of us

Swimming is a sanctuary for me.

Mary Oliver described swimming as “the deepening and quieting of the spirit among the flux of happenings” saying the “sea…held me, until I grew easy.”

As I’ve been swimming this week, I daydreamed about ma...

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