As the morning fog lifts off the bay, John Muir Laws is sitting in the dirt talking to a seagull. "The oval of your body curves back to your head," he says in a low voice. "Sloping forehead angle. I ...

Noa Katz’s birds are realistic, uproariously funny and true to character. They’re all featured in “The Bird Guide,” Katz’s pedantic comic strip about feathered creatures from pigeons to doves, swans ...