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JoAnna

@joannascience.bsky.social

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science writer and illustrator-for-hire joannawendelcomics.com

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JoAnna @joannascience.bsky.social · 15/12/2025

You already know that flamingos eat shrimp (and that's why they're pink!) but have you ever thought about HOW they eat shrimp? Read about tiny underwater tornados in my new comic with @snexplores.bsky.social: www.snexplores.org/article/flam...

Illustration of a flamingo with its beak in the water, fishing for shrimp. Text reads "A Flamingo's Spin on Dinner. Written by Sofia Caetano Avritzer, Illustrated by JoAnna Wendel."

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JoAnna @joannascience.bsky.social · 24/06/2025

snorse

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JoAnna @joannascience.bsky.social · 24/06/2025

Hey did you know I take commissions for pet portraits?? These are bespoke works of art that capture your pet in fun and whimsical ways! DM me or email me at petsbyjoanna@gmail.com for more info! #artcommissions #petportrait #hireanartist

Photo shows a flier advertising pet portraits by JoAnna. Text says the portraits start at $50 for your pet on a plain background, with extra add-ons available like a more detailed background. Email petsbyjoanna@gmail.com to learn more.

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JoAnna @joannascience.bsky.social · 11/06/2025

I also recently published this comic as well with Science News Explores, about SEA ROBINS and their TONGUE-LEGS. Written by Andrea Tamayo and Maria Temming. #sciart #sciencecomic www.snexplores.org/article/sea-...

Illustration shows a brown-spotted fish with big fins and weird little legs coming out its underside. The fish is eating a clam. Text reads "Sea Robin Legs Double as Tongues. Written by Andrea Tamayo and Maria Temming, Illustrated by JoAnna Wendel"

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JoAnna @joannascience.bsky.social · 11/06/2025

Check out my new comic at Science News Explores! It's about goats, sheep, llamas...and optical illusions! Written by Maria Temming #sciart #sciencecomic www.snexplores.org/article/shee...

Comic panel featuring a stupid-looking llama munching on some grass. Text reads "Optical Illusions Fool Hoofed Animals Too. Written by Maria Temming, Illustrating by JoAnna Wendel"

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JoAnna @joannascience.bsky.social · 15/04/2025

Hiked Catherine Creek in the gorge yesterday, it was so beautiful!

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JoAnna @joannascience.bsky.social · 14/04/2025

Annnnd finally, we reach the shallow sea and find out Kelp Forest Mermaid. She has green skin, flowing green hair, and competes with sea otters to gobble up all those pesky sea urchins

Illustration of a mermaid that evolved in a kelp forest. She has green skin and hair and is eating a bright purple sea urchin.

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JoAnna @joannascience.bsky.social · 14/04/2025

Moving up, we find our Open Ocean Mermaid! She evolved alongside whales and sharks, with counter-shading for camouflage, a lot of blubber for warmth, and she even evolved a melon for echolocation! She doesn't need her arms, as she's a filter-feeder like a baleen whale #sciart

Illustration of a mermaid that evolved in the open ocean. She has tiny arms, lots of blubber, and blue skin. Her backside facing the surface is darker blue, for camouflage

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JoAnna @joannascience.bsky.social · 14/04/2025

Staying in the deep sea, we find our Hydrothermal Vent Mermaid, who has similarly big eyes and reddish skin, with some defensive spikes on her tail. She feeds on chemosynthetic bacteria and thrives in hot, dark places #sciart

Illustration of a mermaid that evolved at a hydrothermal vent. She has reddish skin, big eyes, and long fingers.

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JoAnna @joannascience.bsky.social · 14/04/2025

What would mermaids look like if they evolved in different parts of the ocean? First we've got our deep-sea mermaid with her translucent tail, weird long fingers, big eyes and bioluminescent lure #sciart #illustration #comics

Illustration of a mermaid that evolved in the deep sea. She's got big eyes and teeth, long fingers (one with a bioluminescent lure), reddish skin and a translucent tail.

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JoAnna @joannascience.bsky.social · 13/11/2024

Frog Matisse

Henri Matisse's Blue Nude II painting but it's a frog

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JoAnna @joannascience.bsky.social · 09/11/2024

Gonna try posting more. If you're a scientist/science writer or science artist, give me a shout so I can follow you! In the meantime, here's a cover I illustrated for the August 2024 issue of Science News Explores @snexplores.bsky.social

Photograph shows a stack of magazines called Science News Explores. On the cover is an illustration of a young girl flying over pink mountains and a green river. It's the illustration to accompany the cover story, called "Journey into the Dreamscape," about lucid dreaming.

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JoAnna @joannascience.bsky.social · 04/12/2023

Practicing one-panel gags!

Cartoon shows a cat sitting on a chaise lounge, talking to a butler. The cat says "Tell the human I want a belly rub, then I'll claw him. It'll be a gas."

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JoAnna @joannascience.bsky.social · 07/07/2023

👀👀👀

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JoAnna @joannascience.bsky.social · 03/07/2023

I might cross out "republican" and write "libertarian" and give this to my dad

Picture shows a greeting card that says "you may be a republican but you're still the world's greatest dad"

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JoAnna @joannascience.bsky.social · 07/06/2023

why does it look like shrek is about to eat me!!!

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