Cartoonist aims to raise green awareness

How did the idea of Pakchoi- Nino come about?

The seed was sown when I read an issue of the New Scientist magazine about genetically modified (GM) foods.

Scanning through the editorial on the pros and cons on GM food, I started to doodle a GM creature.

The original idea was to make Pakchoi-Nino the protagonist of my new novel. It was while working on the story that I decided to do it in comic strips.

What does Pakchoi-Nino mean?

His original name was Pakchoi-Baby. But I wanted the name to have a global flavour, so I changed 'baby' to 'nino', which in Spanish means boy.