Naturalist Ruddy: Adventurer. Sleuth. Mongoose. (A brand new comic book from the creator of Green Humour)
Picture a Ruddy Mongoose padding through the forests of central India, where teak and sal trees crowd together and plateaus give way to rolling hills. Now give him a curious mind and a knack for cracking nature's strangest puzzles. That's Ruddy, and he makes for an unexpectedly brilliant guide. This comic book, from the pen behind Green Humour, blends natural history with detective fiction in a way that feels fresh and genuinely inventive. Each investigation takes Ruddy (and the reader) into a different Indian habitat, where the 'crime scenes' belong not to criminals but to the natural world itself. Obscure insects, overlooked organisms, little-known animals, all get their moment in the spotlight, with Ruddy piecing together how each creature fits into its surroundings. What lifts this above a straightforward nature comic is the interactive element: readers are invited to work through certain cases alongside Ruddy before the answer is revealed. It's the kind of thing that keeps you turning pages rather than skimming them. Witty, informative, and rooted in a genuine love of India's biodiversity, this is a comic that works just as well for curious adults as it does for younger readers.
- Author: Rohan Chakravarty
- Publisher: Penguin
- Genre: Literary Fiction
- ISBN: 978-0143455172
- Pages: 112 pages