Rosemary Mosco is a cartoonist and writer working in science communication. She is best known for the science-and-nature comic Bird and Moon, and her graphic novels about nature. She also published a best-selling travel guide for children.
Rosemary Mosco | |
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Born | Ottawa, Ontario, Canada |
Occupation | Author |
Alma mater | McGill University, UVM |
Genre | Popular science |
Subject | Biology, space, wonder |
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Mosco was raised in Ottawa, Ontario, where she would go hiking with her mom and then draw pictures of the wildlife they saw when they got back home.[1] She holds a bachelor's degree in anthropology from McGill University[2] and is a graduate of the Field Naturalist Program from the University of Vermont.[2] She worked in communication and marketing positions at nonprofits such as Mass Audubon[3] and the National Park Service.[2] She has birds as pets.[4]
Mosco's work has been featured in The Guardian and the Huffington Post,[5][6] on the radio program Science Friday,[7] and by the Audubon Society.[8]
Her early webcomics include Wild Toronto[9] and (with Maris Wicks) Wild City Comics.[10] As of 2021, she writes the webcomic Bird and Moon.[11] A collection of her comics titled Birding Is My Favorite Video Game was published in 2018 as a book, and included on the ALA's 2019 list of Great Graphic Novels for Teens.[12] She published the graphic novel Solar Systems: Our Place In Space, aimed at middle school students.
In 2018, she co-authored The Atlas Obscura Explorer’s Guide for the World’s Most Adventurous Kid, an illustrated guide to curious places cataloged in Atlas Obscura. This became a New York Times bestseller.[13]
In 2021, she published the picture book Butterflies are Pretty…Gross!, and A Pocket Guide to Pigeon Watching.[14] In 2022, she published Why City Pigeons Are Worth Watching in the New York Times.[15]
In 2020, the PBS series NATURE featured Mosco in the video The Seriously Silly Science Cartoons Of Rosemary Mosco.
In 2021, Mosco won a Reuben Award from the National Cartoonists Society for Bird and Moon.[16]