Blue Sky GIS: Maps in comics

Take the cake

2016-04-22T00:47:00.000-07:00

Here's a series of photos of Earth cakes for Earth Day

This one has a raspberry center and layers that kinda simulate the actual interior of the planet
https://imgur.com/a/7IRnI

THis cake is heroic:

Paris this week

2015-11-30T00:47:00.000-08:00

To coincide with this week's international climate change talks in Paris Amanda has submitted this explainer comic by Richard Monastersky & Nick Sousans:

Walk the world

2015-11-29T00:47:00.000-08:00

There's a guy who has built a walk-able map of the world in Verdenskortet, Denmark

Abridged history?

2015-11-26T00:47:00.000-08:00

I'm not sure I get this one:

At the center of it all

2015-11-25T00:47:00.000-08:00

Architecture critic Oliver Wainwright recently went to North Korea and took photos of colorful, symmetrical building interiors. One of them included this North Korea-centric wall map.

Mapping terror

2015-11-24T00:47:00.000-08:00

Here's a video animation of 15 years of terrorist attacks by designer Milan R. Vuckovic. Is it more or less discomfiting than this animation of the history of nuclear tests?

The looking glass

2015-11-20T00:47:00.000-08:00

Next class

2015-10-26T00:47:00.000-07:00

Map of the school hallway:

They will always be there

2015-10-25T00:47:00.000-07:00

Owl Turd by Shenanigansen is quite the excellent webcomic. Enjoy it.

Introducing Chaos Life

2015-10-24T00:47:00.000-07:00

This is a common experience from Chaos Life by A. Stiffler & K. Copeland

If it quacks like...

2015-10-23T00:47:00.000-07:00

Here's an interesting observation:

Ninja GPS

2015-10-22T00:47:00.000-07:00

I could have sworn I've posted an example of Bug Martini before (by Adam Huber)

Introducing Atomic Robo

2015-10-21T00:47:00.000-07:00

Atomic Robo is a webcomic about an atomic-powered robot invented by Nicola Tesla. It often has maps. This one is funny because it shows a character using a map like it's a mall directory rather than the map of the black market freighter in the middle of the Pacific as our heroes/fugitives prepare to re-assemble the titular character and (once again) save the world.

Other examples:

Mercator truth

2015-10-20T00:47:00.000-07:00

Many people have become so used to seeing the Mercator projection of the Earth that there's some confusion about actual sizes of different places on the planet. Here's an interactive tool to help clarify things.

...and an article to help explain what's going on

Geometric geographical humor

2015-10-19T00:47:00.000-07:00

Pacific Northwest joke in Arlo and Janis by Jimmy Johnson

Rule 34

2015-10-18T00:47:00.000-07:00

This might be a trigger warning for some. And if you don't know about Rule 34, here's the explanation

Abducted

2015-10-17T00:47:00.000-07:00

So much pun:
So much pun. From Just say eh

Blue marble

2015-10-16T00:47:00.000-07:00

Pretty

Really high

2015-10-15T00:47:00.000-07:00

From Ahammaday.com. This one seems a bit off. Sure, the one astronoaut's looking the wrong way and his buddy is tapping him on the shoulder to turn around, but it just doesn't quite work somehow.

Relieving

2015-10-14T00:47:00.000-07:00

This visual trope is a bit familiar (scroll to bottom of that link). This one is from an article about conservative Canadians screwing up privacy:

And isn't the first time we've had a comic involving urine

Jefferson Grid

2015-10-13T00:47:00.000-07:00

Thomas Jefferson established the square mile as a foundation for land law in the US. This instragram account shows images of things found in 1-square-mile crops from Google Earth. It's pretty:

United States of Westeros

2015-10-12T00:47:00.000-07:00

College Humor has put together a map of ... parts of... North America after the manner of Westeros:

Water fall

2015-10-11T00:47:00.000-07:00

Apparently some people thought this image/video was what the Earth would look like without water.

I't actually just the geoid, which shows the shape of the Earth's surface where gravity is the same (exaggerated for visual effect)

This is what the Earth would look like without water (which we've seen before):

Read it

2015-10-10T00:47:00.000-07:00

Halcyon Maps brings you myriad beautiful maps of interesting things, like this map of literary genres

Can't buy me...

2015-10-09T00:47:00.000-07:00

Map of London in the style of the iconic tube map showing rents in London and how they're unaffordable.