COMICS: From PBS' 'Nature' 2006-2008 SO COOL!

For other reasons, (see my response to Steve Ritz's QUESTION: How to make a 4th Grade Leaf Identification Project POP?) I was surfing websites related to PBS' Nature TV show and came across - this awesome MC POP style resource at the show's Wikipedia page.

Three issues of a Nature comic book were produced from 2006–2008. They were full-color corollaries to on-air episodes like "Silence of the Bees," "In the Valley of the Wolves," and "The Beauty of Ugly." Nature Comics was targeted at pre-teens and teenagers as an educational tool, and was distributed free to museums, schools, and nature centers.

Nature Comics featured the talents of a number of notable cartoonists, including Josh Neufeld, Rick Veitch, Lauren Weinstein, and Thomas Yeates. The series was edited by David Reisman.

Nature Comics #2 was given an Association of Education Publishers 2008 Distinguished Achievement Award (in the Specialized Audience Instruction/Graphic Novel category).^[1]

After a bit of surfing I found all three PDFs / issues at this WNET Thirteen blog. The Internet is a shifty beast so I highly recommend downloading the full PDFs ASAP if you're interested in the content in case someone decides to pull them or put them somewhere else. It would be really cool if they re-booted this initiative - in the meantime, this is all they've got!

Download/read them all here:

Nature Comics #1 (2006)

Cover:
Mark Schultz
Artists:
Rick Veitch
Jonathan Bennett
Lauren Weinstein
R. Kikuo Johnson
Sabrina Jones
Related Episodes:
* In The Valley of the Wolves
* Penguins of the Antarctic
* Chimpanzees: An Unnatural History

Download full comic PDF for #1

Nature Comics #2 (2008)

Cover:
R. Kikuo Johnson
Artists:
Rick Veitch
Lauren Weinstein
R. Kikuo Johnson
Thomas Yeates
Josh Neufeld
Jeffrey Lewis
Related Episodes:
* Silence of the Bees
* In the Valley of the Wolves
* The Beauty of Ugly

Download full comic PDF for #2

Nature Comics #3 (2008)

Cover:
Rick Veitch
Artists:
Rick Veitch
Thomas Yeates
Sabrina Jones
R. Kikuo Johnson
Lauren Weinstein
Hope Larson
Josh Neufeld
Related Episodes:
* The Dragon Chronicles (comic online)
* The Wolf That Changed America (comic online)
* Frogs: The Thin Green Line

Download full comic PDF for #3