Greenhouse Affect

Comics on the environment, climate science, and life on Spaceship Earth.

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I’m in love with this stupid shirt

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2/1/2026

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2/1/2025

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Vernal Pools. Greenhouse Affect #35. Published in the Boston Compass.

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2015. Greenhouse Affect #34. Published in the Boston Compass

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Changes In The Land. Greenhouse Affect #33. Published in the Boston Compass.

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Boston Harbor. Greenhouse Affect #32. Published in the Boston Compass.

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Intangible. Greenhouse Affect #31. Published in the Boston Compass, December 2022.

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I’ve got a comic in this month’s Boston Compass, and for the next six issues - do check it out if you’re in the greater Boston area!!

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Drifting a bit from my usual here, but I wrote a piece about how tabletop roleplaying games depict nature (and how D&D does a really bad job of it, from an environmentalist perspective) which maybe some people here might like

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“ At any rate, spring is here, even in London N.1, and they can’t stop you enjoying it...The atom bombs are piling up in the factories, the police are prowling through the cities, the lies are streaming from the loudspeakers, but the earth is still going round the sun, and neither the dictators nor the bureaucrats, deeply as they disapprove of the process, are able to prevent it“ - George Orwell, Some Thoughts On The Common Toad, 1946

Happy belated May Day!

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Hi all!

Very exciting announcement - I’m going to be tabling at RISD’s Unbound Art-Book Fair on Saturday, April 9th. If you’re around the Providence area, come check it out! I’ll have print books of Greenhouse Affect, Crows of a Feather, some older titles, and an exciting new release - and I’ll be tabling with some very cool friends as well! I’m really excited to be getting back to physically tabling at cons and zine fairs, and I hope to see you there!

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I’m going to be tabling at the Unbound Art-Book Fair in Provicence on April 9th! If you want a rare opportunity to get a print zine of Greenhouse Affect strips, come meet me there!

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I’ve got a huge announcement - I’m going to be writing/drawing a book!!!

CARBON FINGERPRINTS is a collection of graphic essays on climate change and deep time which will be published by Stelliform Press in 2024. For those of you who’ve been following Greenhouse Affect, it’s going to be a lot like that, but longer! I’m really excited for the chance to get to spend more time with some climate stories which I’ve encountered in the course of this project, and to have a space to tell some of the ones which need a little more room to breathe.

check out more info about the book here: https://twitter.com/StelliformPress/status/1493284094654005261

And in the mean time...look forward to a lot of sketches of prehistoric trees from me!

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Duster. Greenhouse Affect #28. August 15th, 2021.

In 1935, it snowed pink in Massachusetts and Chicago because of the red Oklahoma dust kicked up into the atmosphere by severe dust storms in the Great Plains.

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Future Myopia — Real Life

How do you forge a relationship to a past that considered future generations expendable?

Not comics, but I wrote a piece for Real Life Magazine about the history of climate change and getting haunted by Thomas Schelling’s ghost

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pages of Funny Weather We’re Having at the Moment, Isn’t it Dear? [2000] a comic zine about environmentalism, climate change, and preservation by Kate Evans

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Silicon. Greenhouse Affect #27. April 8th, 2021.

Most of the information about the history of semiconductor manufacturing in Silicon Valley comes from From Clean Rooms to Dirty Water: Labor, Semiconductor Firms, and the Struggle over Pollution and Workplace Hazards in Silicon Valley by Christophe Lécuyer.

“Cities such as Sunnyvale wanted semiconductor fabs to look as un-factory-like as possible. As a result, they required that a high parapet be built around a plant’s rooftop in order to hide the smokestacks. This rule had the unanticipated consequence of trapping dangerous chemicals on top of the building, creating “chemical pools.” As the air intakes, like smokestacks, were located on top of the roof, the chemicals would be swallowed back in by the ventilation systems and breathed, again and again, by operators and technicians working in the clean rooms.”