Science Toons: Animals and Plants

Tom Jackson has written more than 80 books and contributed to hundreds more. His specialties are natural history, technology and all things scientific. Tom spends his days finding fun ways of communicating facts, new and old, to all age groups and reading abilities. Tom lives in Bristol, England, with his wife and three children. He studied zoology at Bristol University and has had spells working at zoos. Tom has also worked as a conservationist, which saw him planting trees in Somerset, surveying Vietnamese jungle and rescuing wildlife from drought-ridden Zimbabwe. Writing has also taken him to the Galápagos Islands, Amazon rainforest, coral reefs of Indonesia and Sahara Desert. Nowadays, he can be found mainly in the attic. Abby Bulmer is a freelance cartoonist based in Manchester who has worked in comics, book illustration and animation. Her early work in UK comics included colouring work for 2000AD on Judge Dredd and Kingdom, and illustration work for characters like the Powerpuff Girls, Moshi Monsters, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles and Angry Birds. Abby is now a regular artist for The Phoenix and has also works as a television storyboard artist.