From 1990 to 1997, Gonick penned a bimonthly "Science Classics" cartoon for the science magazine
Discover. Each two-page comic discussed a recent scientific development, often one in interdisciplinary research. During the 1994-95 academic year, Gonick was a Knight Science Journalism Fellow at MIT[1]. In 1997, his 14-issue series,
Candide in China, published on the World Wide Web, described Chinese inventions. He also writes the
Kokopelli & Company comic that appears in the magazine
Muse.
He drew the satirical, anti-corporate comic
Commoners for
Common Ground and later explained:
- Feeling alternately mournful and enraged about the shameless expropriation of public space, public enterprise, publicly held goods like the atmosphere, oceans, and rivers, not to mention roads, parks, sidewalks, genomes, and the broadcast spectrum...indeed the very idea of the common good...I decided to do something about it! Well, say something, anyway.
Since early 2009 Gonick has also drawn a humorous webcomic entitled
Raw Materials that deals with technology and business matters, especially database administration.