SCIENTOONS AND SCIENTOONICS: ENJOY SCIENCE Science education and research is facing a tough challenge around the world now-a-days. Many times, the way it is being taught, it looks very technical, less interesting and sometimes even boring. Educationists around the world including in USA and Europe are worried as students are opting for more lucrative career options in business, commerce and information technology rather than opting science as career. This trend is not a healthy one as no country can progress without the development in S&T. Now-a-days most of the scientific researches have become interdisciplinary and many experts from different background have to work together. To communicate to such different experts from various disciplines, is a real challenge which needs a new strategy. It is well said that a picture is worth thousand words. Cartoons are the combination of caricature and satire. Caricature means distorted drawing and satire means a humorous comment. If the subject of the cartoon is science then they are called science cartoons. Scientoons are a new class of cartoons based on science developed by the author for the first time in the world. Scientoons not only make you smile and laugh but also provide information about new researches, subjects, data and concepts in a very simple, understandable and interesting way. Scientoonics is new branch of science, which deals with effective science communication using a scientoons. Scientoons have been recognized/ appreciated all over the world by several international organizations including WHO, UNESCO, UNEP, Royal Swedish Academy, IUPAC, American Chemical Society, Junior Chamber International (USA), DECHEMA, Germany, also by NCSTC (DST, Govt. of India), CSIR, Indian Science Congress Association and many more. European Science Festival 2008 held from July 18-22, 2008 at Barcelona, Spain, organized a full session on Scientoonics (www.esof2008.org). This Scientoon based audiovisual technique is more useful when a scientific program is undertaken to make people understand and learn and thus create interest in that area for higher education/interdisciplinary research/mass awareness. This paper is an attempt to show that how complex subjects of science can be presented and effectively explained using scientoons in a very simple way so that the science education can be made more informative, interesting and useful.