Death from Above page 1

A seven panel comic page featuring, a giant statue of a mosquito at the American Museum of Natural History, the Jefferson Market Library, a pair of maps comparing Greenwich Village streets to the rest of Manhattan, a mosquito sucking blood, an eighteenth century new yorker noticing how the symptoms of yellow fever don't seem to be as prevelent just outside of New York.

This is my first story about the history of animals in New York City.

Mosquito have been spreading illness since before the dawn of civilization, so I've always thought that it is amazing that humans have only suspected them as the vectors for diseases for a little over 200 years. In fact in 1917, when that statue was installed at the American Museum of Natural History, there were still respected doctors and scientists that thought the whole theory of Mosquito born illnesses was poppycock.