Larry Gonick, Author . Norton $21.95 (300p) ISBN 978-0-393-32403-7
The second volume of Gonick's deeply researched, lucid and hilarious overview of history was published eight years ago. Good things take time, evidently. This third installment begins in the year 395, with the closing of Europe's pagan...
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Larry Gonick, Author . Collins $17.95 (259p) ISBN 978-0-06-076004-5
Since 1971 Gonick has been writing and drawing his highly entertaining
\t\t Cartoon Guides, popularizing an extraordinary array of subjects, including
\t\t genetics, physics, and even sex. Picking up where his most celebrated work, the
\t\t ...
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Larry Gonick, Author . Harper $19 (260p) ISBN 978-0-06-076008-3
The final installment of Gonick's deeply funny and impeccably researched series has finally arrived, and like the rest of his Cartoon History series, the book covers a wide range of key and fascinating historical events and topics that have...
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Larry Gonick, Author Main Street Books $22.95 (368p) ISBN 978-0-385-26520-1
Gonick's hilariously informative history of the planet is a great addition to the growing field of comics trade books. Starting with the Big Bang theory and moving on to the ``evolution of everything,'' he manages to cover three billion years--from...
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Larry Gonick, Author Main Street Books $23.99 (320p) ISBN 978-0-385-42093-8
Gonick has done it again with a diffuse but deep excavation into early civilizations from ancient China to the Germanic tribes. In some ways, Gonick asks a lot of American readership's occidental training by detailing every dynastic hotshot from the
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Larry Gonick, Author, Christine DeVault, Joint Author HarperResource $17.99 (256p) ISBN 978-0-06-273431-0
If others have shown that sex can be tragic, existential, fun, meaningful or meaningless, Gonick (The Cartoon Guide to Physics, etc.) and DeVault prove it can also be raucously entertaining. With an absurdist sensibility, the pair begin with the...
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Larry Gonick and Tim Kasser. New Press, $19.95 trade paper (224p) ISBN 978-1-62097-282-3
With an extensive series of cartoon guides to nonfiction subjects under his belt (including the classic series The Cartoon History of the Universe), Gonick turns his attention to hypercapitalism, a talking point of 21st-century politics and culture.
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