Sex sells, even animal sex, and Perrin Roosevelt Ireland has made a career as a science educator by focusing on the squirts, wriggles, and wee thumps of the faunal world. Known on social media for her short dispatches on creature reproduction while hula-hooping (it does get your attention), in Poking the Squid, she reveals that the grappling and mounting of kingdom Animalia is weirder, more exotic, and maybe even more fun than anything you’ll read in the Kama Sutra. The sex puts the graphic in her graphic novel, and her watercolors and hand lettering add whimsy. Underneath all the bumping and grinding is an important message: hetero, homo, solo, whatever your bent, it’s all natural. A happy ending!
Poking the Squid: What We Can Learn from Animal Sex