Larry Gonick
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Larry Gonick is a cartoonist best known for The Cartoon History of the Universe, a history of the world in comic book form, which he has been publishing in installments since 1977. He has also written The Cartoon History of the United States, and he has adapted the format for a series of co-written guidebooks on other subjects, beginning with The Cartoon Guide to Genetics in 1983. The diversity of his interests, and the success with which his books have met, have together earned Gonick the distinction of being "the most well-known and respected of cartoonists who have applied their craft to unravelling the mysteries of science" (Drug Discovery Today, March 2005).
From 1990 to 1997, Gonick penned a bimonthly "Science Classics" cartoon for Discover Magazine. Each two-page comic discussed a recent scientific development, often one in interdisciplinary research. In 1997, a fourteen-comic series entitled Candide in China, published on the World Wide Web, described Chinese inventions. He also writes the Kokopelli & Company comic that appears in the magazine Muse.
Bibliography
- The Cartoon History of the Universe - From the Big Bang to Alexander the Great (Volumes 1-7)
- The Cartoon History of the Universe II - From the Springtime of China to the Fall of Rome (Volumes 8-13)
- The Cartoon History of the Universe III - From the Rise of Arabia to the Renaissance (Volumes 14-19)
- The Cartoon History of the Universe IV (Volumes 20-26, due 2007)
- The Cartoon History of the United States
- The Cartoon Guide to Chemistry
- The Cartoon Guide to the Computer (originally The Cartoon Guide to Computer Science)
- The Cartoon Guide to the Environment (with Alice Outwater)
- The Cartoon Guide to Genetics (with Mark Wheelis)
- The Cartoon Guide to (non)Communication
- The Cartoon Guide to Physics (with Art Huffman)
- The Cartoon Guide to Sex (with Christine Devault)
- The Cartoon Guide to Statistics (with Woollcott Smith)
- Attack of the Smart Pies (fiction)
External links
- Larry Gonick's web site (http://www.larrygonick.com)
- Kokopelli & Company official web site (http://www.cricketmag.com/activity_display.asp?id=194)
- Candide in China (http://china.candidemedia.com/html/dispatches/cartoonarc1.html)