Do you need a funny break between two boring talks at the last conference about swarm intelligence? Try "The Boids!", by Campbell & Merrill. To my knowledge, it is the first swarm intelligent comic strip ever written.

The Boids is the story of Flock Unit 2A-6, known to his pals as “Boid.” Boid is a member of a flock of experimental robot birds that were built at a local university to study the way birds coordinate their flight patterns in large flocks. Boid becomes separated from his robot flock during a storm and decides to seek out a new flock among real birds in the park.