by Alan J. Hesse | Feb 14, 2022 | Uncategorized
I recently had the pleasure and honour of being a guest on the podcastFeed Me Serotonin, hosted by Alex Knott. We discussed insightful questions about anthropogenic climate change, its causes and effects on global society, and the importance of staying optimistic. I...
by Alan J. Hesse | Jul 1, 2021 | Uncategorized
Intelligent questions that allow me to divulge the WHY and HOW behind using graphic novels as teaching tools. Alan J. Hesse was born in Lahore, Pakistan. As a kid, he loved playing football and read a lot. He is the author and illustrator of five non-fiction graphic...
by Alan J. Hesse | Jun 9, 2021 | Uncategorized
Extract from ‘The Salta Lake of Tunupa’ by Martin Specht and Lois Jammes Pants On or Off? refers to the creative process of an author deciding how to create a book. Some authors wade right in with no planning, the creative juices flowing. Other authors...
by Alan J. Hesse | Jul 9, 2020 | Uncategorized
Normally when I create a comic book I first finish all the artwork right up to the final, fully colored frames. I then switch over to Adobe Indesign to lay out each frame in comic-style boxes, page after page, adding in the speech bubbles, narratives and texts, and...
by Alan J. Hesse | Jun 22, 2020 | Uncategorized
My character Polo the Bear, climate change messenger and globetrotter extraordinaire has some important news! He is now officially Captain Polo: concerned polar bear, world citizen, adventurer, explorer and climate change educator. Captain Polo recently went through...
by Alan J. Hesse | May 21, 2020 | Uncategorized
My mission is to bring environmentally oriented educational facts and inspiration to kids of all ages all the way up to 99 years old. For this to work, I need to be very careful to shake things up all the time. I create comic books, but even a comic book can be...
by Alan J. Hesse | May 1, 2020 | Uncategorized
As the story unfolds in my educational comic book, The Adventures of Polo the Bear, Polo’s character evolves. Starting out as just another hungry bear, he gradually takes on the role of a celebrity and an activist for climate action. Using humour, often through...
by Alan J. Hesse | Apr 22, 2020 | Uncategorized
Earth Day 2020 is being widely and rightly celebrated around the world as I type. This is good, this is great! But its not nearly enough. One could argue that ‘Earth Day’ is redundant, for the simple reason that every day should be Earth Day. In the same...
by Alan J. Hesse | Apr 20, 2020 | Uncategorized
Clare Shakya I was lucky to have a chat with Clare Shakya for an interview as part of my research for my next comic book, the sequel to The Adventures of Polo the Bear: a Story of Climate Change. Clare is the director of the Climate Change research group at the...
by Alan J. Hesse | Apr 16, 2020 | Uncategorized
Dung beetles just love the stuff, they do. And its actually quite important, even for you and me! The mysterious reason why is explored in my very first comic book, co authored with Louise Emmons: Fables of the Amazon: Fun Lessons in Ecology. This funny comic book is...
by Alan J. Hesse | Apr 9, 2020 | Uncategorized
Humanity is in unprecedented global lockdown and kids are bored at home. What a great time to awaken their curiosity about the natural world! This excerpt from The Adventures of Polo the Bear, a fun educational resource for kids, is all about the ocean and its wild...
by Alan J. Hesse | Mar 27, 2020 | Uncategorized
It is vital that society at large does not forget the real emergency humanity is facing. COVID19 is but one more symptom of an already collapsing world. The solutions to arrest global warming and mass extinction DO EXIST, and I for one am very optimistic. But for them...
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