For MICE 2025, Carousel presents “Science Comics!” Five Boston-area artists who write and draw about the wonderful worlds of biology, computers, gender science, zoology, and more.
Featuring readings and performances by
Al Benbow
Hosted by R. Sikoryak
Fuller Building at Boston University
(808 Commonwealth Avenue, Boston, MA).
Saturday December 6, 2025 1:00pm – 2:00pm EST
More info: https://www.micexpo.org
(We’ll be at MICE all weekend, selling books with Kriota Willberg at Tables 81A and 81B https://www.micexpo.org/exhibitor-list-2025)
Al Benbow is a cartoonist whose work often centers around identity, transness, lesbian community, and being outside. Born and raised in the Midwest, they now live in New England with their partner, where they still harbor a love for rural spaces.
Jerel Dye has been creating award winning art and comics in the Boston area since 2009. He has illustrated several graphic novels, including Science Comics: Computers, 2025 and Einstein in 2022, listed as one of the top 10 graphic novels of the year by ALA Booklist.
Alexandra Gallant-Lee (She/Her) is an award-winning science communicator, artist, cartoonist and designer based in Boston. With over fifteen years of experience communicating scientific ideas and concepts through visual communications, she has worked with some of the most cited researchers in the world on some of the most high profile and high impact research in medicine.
Caroline Hu is a cartoonist, science communicator, and biology professor from Boston, MA. Her debut graphic novel, ‘Who Discovered How to Breathe Underwater?: Jacques Cousteau’, written by Boston author Ned Wolfe, came out this year from Penguin Workshop.
Lindsey Leigh is an illustrator and comic artist based in Somerville. Her work is inspired by the natural world and she believes strongly in the power of art to communicate scientific ideas. She is the author and illustrator of the “Wild Life” series published by Penguin Workshop.
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