Synopsis
About Larry Gonick
See more books from this AuthorWhile most texts map equations onto lines or curves on a standard x-y axis, Gonick introduces parallel lines with arrows connecting an x value on one line to its f(x) value on the parallel line.
| Read Full Review of Cartoon History of the Univer...Problems of succession lead to lots of lurid anecdotes about perverse and insatiable emperors, violent entertainments, brutal conquests--all of which Gonick records with Mad-like irreverence.
| Read Full Review of Cartoon History of the Univer...(The Byzantines were very fond of eye-gouging, and although he depicts this off-frame, as it were, you do see the odd pair of eyeballs skittering across the picture from time to time.) There are some things that defy the flippant approach, though - the effects of plague, for instance - and Goni...
Feb 22 2003 | Read Full Review of Cartoon History of the Univer...Despite the occasional generalization (""Looks matter to everyone, but they matter more to men""), the authors do a good job of conveying lots of information within an inherently limiting format, whether they are detailing methods of contraception, discussing the effect of the media on sex crimes...
| Read Full Review of Cartoon History of the Univer...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 managed to slip through the gaps of common knowledge.
Oct 12 2009 | Read Full Review of Cartoon History of the Univer...(In the chapter on the life of Muhammad, for instance, he makes a running joke of keeping the prophet permanently off-panel.) Gonick is fond of wacky little digressions, and the book includes plenty of learned slapstick (one ongoing gag concerns the "amazing amount of eye-gouging" in Byzantine hi...
| Read Full Review of Cartoon History of the Univer...Gonick has done it again with a diffuse but deep excavation into early civilizations from ancient China to the Germanic tribes.
| Read Full Review of Cartoon History of the Univer...Gonick's hilariously informative history of the planet is a great addition to the growing field of comics trade books.
| Read Full Review of Cartoon History of the Univer...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,
Sep 10 1997 | Read Full Review of Cartoon History of the Univer...An aggregated and normalized score based on 73 user ratings from iDreamBooks & iTunes