Wire Mothers: Harry Harlow and the Science of Love

Jim Ottaviani and Dylan Meconis teamed up for this single-issue GT Labs graphic biography, which explores psychologist Harry Harlow’s controversial experiments on attachment and affection in rhesus monkeys. Through Meconis’s clean, expressive art, the comic distills the science behind Harlow’s famous wire-and-cloth mother studies, showing how they reshaped our understanding of love and bonding. It’s a compact, thoughtful entry in the tradition of well-researched science comics, making complex psychological research both accessible and human.