Hello Terry Wiley

Who are you?

Terry Wiley

Why did you get involved in Spineless?

Because I remember how much fun it was absorbing science info when I was wee, everyone should get some science in.

Tell us about your comic.

It's called Reef Beasts, it's all about the squishy animals that live at the bottom of tropical seas, and their amazing abilities.

This is a sub-species of Sea Cucumber called a Sea Apple - I picked it for the Sea Cucumber section because of its interesting red-white-blue colouration, most other Sea Cucumbers are greenish-brown and look like an underwater poo.


Terry is working with Guest Curator Irene Brown.

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A Spineless Update

Work has begun on the Spineless comic. It's just like old times, this time we're teaming up with Great North Museum:Hancock to make an awesome comic companion for their Spineless exhibition. We've received our first proof and it's looking pretty smart.

You might recognise some of our comic makers from Asteroid Belter, others you might not so in the next posts we'll be getting to know our contributors and what brought them to the project:

Jess Bradley

Terry Wiley

John Gatehouse and Dave Windett

Emily Rose Lambert

Sigmund Reimann

Samuel C Williams

So... how does the Greenhouse Effect work?

Greetings fellow scientists! We've had our first comic submission for the blog and here it is. Click on the picture to see it at full size.

This comic was made by Terry Wiley who also features in the pages of Asteroid Belter, the Newcastle Science Comic.

Send us your comics! 
Like science? Like comics? We're taking submissions for our blog, this is open to any age and ability (in short everybody). Email your science based comic to newcastlesciencecomic+web@gmail.com and we'll put it on the blog. Want to know more about what we're after? Check out our Open Call for Online Comics page.

Introducing Terry Wiley

As I declared earlier, everything is connected. Terry Wiley is connected with scientist David Alderson by the comic Everything's Connected. Figuring out complex networks and how they connect isn't just serious stuff, it's fun too. Terry was also kind enough to be one of our earliest contributors by helping put together our school activities pack, Science FACT-ion.

Who are you? 
Terry Wiley

What have you done / what are you doing?
I drew the massive 480-page black & white 'Sleaze Castle' collection (which is not at all sleazy),
and now I'm doing a 160-page colour story 'VerityFair' (warning - cotains bums and swears).

What excites you about comics?
Comics are the ultimate combination of Show and Tell - OK, maybe film is good at that too, but comics
only need 1 millionth the budget of a film!

What excites you about science?
Science is is what's left when you get rid of all the flim-flam, hearsay, self-deception, lies, exaggerations,
hard-sell, gibberish and hoo-hah we ape folks chuck at each other every day.

Contact/Links
www.idcm.net      twing@cix.co.uk

Science FACT-ion

Our schools pack is now available to download. Can you tell the difference between Science fact and science fiction? Artists Terry Wiley, Andrew Waugh and Cuttlefish explore inventions throughout space and time, join them - in the name of science!

Here's a work in progress sketch from the schools pack of our daring scientist explorer. 

Students are also challenged to draw an invention from the future, something that doesn't exist yet but could be in every home by the year 2050. Winners of the competition will appear in the Newcastle Science Comic.

British Science Festival School Packs: Science FACT-ion schools activity pack, for 8 to 13 year olds.