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Colourful images about culture and language
Starkey Comics: Colourful images about culture and language
Hi!
I'm Ryan.
I make comics, images, and posts about things I've interested in. One of my favourite challenges is taking a very complex topic, and trying to make it simple, accessible, and visually appealing.
I'm dyslexic, which is perhaps why I've always been fascinated with using images to display complex information in simple and clear ways.
I make a lot of these images simply because nobody else has yet. I hate it when I'm trying to learn about a topic, but I can't find any nice simple images, graphics or maps that summarise the information, and so I make my own. The ABCD Family Tree is a great example of one of these posts.
posted by infinitewindow on Jan 19, 2026 at 9:05 PM
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Not just the Arts Block! Starkey has a nice post on the loss of a key gene in the pathway to vitamin-C . . . in primates. The whiff of a ghost of that gene is still present as a pseudogene on Chr 8 in the human genome.
Tnx for finding this: here be rabbit'oles aplenty
posted by BobTheScientist at 11:55 PM
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these are fun. Starkey should do a map for the (2) words for tea
posted by chavenet at 2:55 AM
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My favorite so far is the one about why you have to get vitamin C in your diet, even though like 99% of non-primates make it for themselves.
posted by JHarris at 9:27 AM
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Er, what BobTheScientist said!
posted by JHarris at 9:27 AM
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This is fantastic! Thank you!
posted by intermod at 9:04 PM
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