Rosemary Mosco

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
Rosemary Mosco holding a gopher snake.
BornOttawa, Ontario, Canada
OccupationAuthor
Alma materMcGill University, UVM
GenrePopular science
SubjectBiology, space, wonder
Notable works
  • Bird and Moon
Website
rosemarymosco.com

Personal life

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]

Writing

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]

Features

In 2020, the PBS series NATURE featured Mosco in the video The Seriously Silly Science Cartoons Of Rosemary Mosco.

Awards

In 2021, Mosco won a Reuben Award from the National Cartoonists Society for Bird and Moon.[16]

References
  1. Staake, Jill (April 27, 2018). "The Nature Art of Rosemary Mosco". Birds an Blooms. Retrieved October 23, 2021.
  2. "Joining Science and Art". The University of Vermont. Retrieved October 23, 2021.
  3. D, Ryan (June 20, 2018). "Q&A With Rosemary Mosco of Bird and Moon Comics". Mass Audubon - Your Great Outdoors. Retrieved October 23, 2021.
  4. The Seriously Silly Science Cartoons of Rosemary Mosco, retrieved October 23, 2021
  5. "Here's What To Do If You Find A Baby Songbird Out Of Its Nest". HuffPost. April 4, 2016. Retrieved October 23, 2021.
  6. "What is this 'hot pigeon'? Is it even real?". the Guardian. March 11, 2021. Retrieved October 23, 2021.
  7. Groskin, Luke. "The Seriously Silly Science Cartoons Of Rosemary Mosco". Science Friday. Retrieved October 23, 2021.
  8. "Why I Use Comics to Share My Love of Birds and Science". Audubon. April 26, 2018. Retrieved October 23, 2021.
  9. Torontoist (December 7, 2011). "Wild Toronto, Collector's Edition". Torontoist. Retrieved November 17, 2021.
  10. "Wild City Comics". Your Wild City. Retrieved November 17, 2021.
  11. Mosco, Rosemary. "Science and Nature cartoons". bird and moon. Retrieved November 17, 2021.
  12. NGILBERT (January 17, 2019). "2019 Great Graphic Novels for Teens". Young Adult Library Services Association (YALSA). Retrieved October 23, 2021.
  13. THE ATLAS OBSCURA EXPLORER'S GUIDE FOR THE... | Kirkus Reviews.
  14. Bent, Nancy. Pocket Guide to Pigeon Watching: Booklist review.
  15. Mosco, Rosemary (April 12, 2022). "Why City Pigeons Are Worth Watching". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved September 28, 2022.
  16. "Reuben Weekend – NCS Divisional Award Winners 1". The Daily Cartoonist. October 16, 2021. Retrieved October 23, 2021.
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