Nick D Kim is a New Zealand scientist and cartoonist whose science and general cartoons have appeared online since 1995 under the titles Strange Matter, Lab Initio, Nearing Zero, and Science and Ink. Nick's cartoons have always attracted a significant following among scientists around the world and frequently feature on laboratory and office walls, in lecture notes and thesis front-pages, and a range of science and other periodicals such as Annals of Improbable Research and Phoenixine in connection with which Nick has received three Sir Julius Vogel...