Rediscovering Al Capp's Shmoo

Fantastic creatures still lurk here and there, and one never knows when they will turn up.

In the June 2012 issue of Symmetry, a colorful magazine devoted to the world of particle physics, you will find my article The Shmoos of the Tevatron.

Particles like the top quark weren’t the only characters to appear at Fermilab’s Tevatron. A physicist waxes nostalgic as scientists prepare to celebrate the accelerator’s contributions to science, technology and society at a symposium this month.

Illustration: Sandbox Studio, Chicago. Shmoo copyright Capp Enterprises, Inc. Used in Symmetry by permission.

Fans of Drink Tank will recall that this article previously appeared in that fanzine's fabulously thick 300th issue (a large 11.8 MB PDF).