by Alan J. Hesse | Oct 4, 2022 | Alan
I recently had the pleasure of appearing on Bob Gatty’s Lean to the Left podcast show to have a chat about the Captain Polo Climate Academy. For many years, Bob worked as a writer, editor and communications consultant, focusing on government and politics....
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 | Aug 16, 2021 | Alan
In this interview We The Species podcast host Calvin Schwartz and I talk about climate education, conservation and storytelling with The Adventures of Captain Polo. Calvin convinces me to give some of the back story to how I got into conservation, a tale that...
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 | Apr 15, 2021 | Alan
A chat with Drunk On Porpoise is a conversation about conservation, climate change, education, humour, satire and graphic novels. These subjects may seem an eclectic mix, yet they all come together very naturally in this interview. Another topic covered in this...
by Alan J. Hesse | Feb 26, 2021 | Alan
The Adventures of Captain Polo: Pole to Pole is the 4th book of the series, and like it’s predecessors, it explores different aspects of our era’s most critical existential crisis. However, Pole to Pole is much more than just another...
by Alan J. Hesse | Dec 29, 2020 | Alan
An interview by Paul Lafferty from #32alltheway means having an informal chat, a rich dialogue rather than an interview as such. There are no superfluous, silly questions here. This is all about an exchange of thoughts and experiences focused on the topic of what...
by Alan J. Hesse | Oct 11, 2020 | Alan
I recently had the wonderful opportunity to do a Wisdom of the Ages podcast interview. Hosted by best-selling and award-winning author Ayn Cates Sullivan, Wisdom of the Ages is a show that taps into the many expressions of universal, ancestral and personal wisdom to...
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...
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