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LARRY GONICK
Click HERE to order THE CARTOON HISTORY OF THE UNIVERSE The CARTOON HISTORY of the  UNIVERSE
VOLUMES 1-7
FROM THE BIG BANG TO ALEXANDER THE GREAT
by Larry Gonick
Paperback: 359 pages
black & white illustrations
Doubleday
ISBN: 0385265204
$19.95
An entertaining and informative illustrated guide that makes world history accessible, appealing, and funny.
In seven wild and witty chapters, cartoonist Larry Gonick takes us on an uproarious joyride through the ancient world. Gonick's brilliant insights, exuberant humor, and delightful drawings combine to make a truly unique work that is sure to be a valuable resource as well as a great escape for all ages.

One of the beautiful things about comics is that it is possibly the best medium for combining education and entertainment. No one knows this better than Larry Gonick, whose Cartoon History series spans many subjects. Whether you are a fan of history, comics, or Gonick's books, The Cartoon History of the Universe I is a great place to start. Part I contains volumes 1 to 7, from the Big Bang to Alexander the Great.
 

"Obviously one of the great books of all time."

--Terry Jones.
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Click HERE to order THE CARTOON HISTORY OF THE UNIVERSE
The author, Larry Gonick:
Why Volume 7 looks different!
Several readers have complained that the drawing in Volume 7 doesn't look so hot. I guess I agree. The reason is that, smitten with the work of the Maylasian cartoonist Lat, I thought I'd try to draw it with a pen. All the previous volumes were drawn with a brush.
Well, I still think Lat is one of the world's great cartoonists, but I gave up on the pen after 48 gruelling pages. Volumes 8-13 were also all drawn with a brush, and so will all future volumes!!! I'm not done! 
LARRY GONICK
Click HERE to order THE CARTOON HISTORY OF THE UNIVERSE II The CARTOON HISTORY of the UNIVERSE II
VOLUMES 8-13
FROM THE SPRINGTIME OF CHINA TO THE FALL OF THE ROME
by Larry Gonick
Paperback: 320 pages
Main Street Books
ISBN: 0385420935
$19.95
Continuing right where the first book left off, The Cartoon History of the Universe II once again combines Gonick's superb cartooning with the lessons of history.
Find out what Lynn Johnston, creator of For Better of Worse, calls "a gift to those of us who love to laugh and who love to learn." Part II contains volumes 8 to 13, from the Springtime of China to the Fall of Rome (plus the history of India, too!).

From Booklist
As Ray Olson noted in his review of the first seven volumes of this cartoon history, Gonick "consistently considers the status of women, lower-class people, and the losers of wars" in one of the "most amusing, provocative surveys of the planet's progress ever made." Typically, Gonick lays down a serious narrative line, then illustrates it with something boffo; he varies his shadings and panel sizes dramatically and often drops in a "footnote" that is a separate, related story. His first seven volumes began with a bang, the big one, and took the reader through the time of Alexander the Great. We pick up Alexander marching to India, where he makes an about-face, thus occasioning Gonick's treatise on India with witty portraits of Hinduism, Buddhism, and the Jain sect, followed by a history of China, concentrating on Confucius and various monarchs and occupying nearly half the book. Then Gonick flashes back, as it were, to the aftermath of Alexander, tracing Rome's rise and fall through 564 A.D., the end of Justinian's reign. The result, in both volumes, is simply a delightful way to be introduced to world history--relaxing and yet often provocative reading for adults but also an excellent primer for children and for poor readers. This new installment ought to circulate heavily and bring renewed demand for the first.

John Mort
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From Kirkus Reviews
Imagine a collaboration between Arnold Toynbee and R. Crumb and you get a pretty good idea of Gonick's clever and ambitious comic book series. This volume should not be taken as some kind of Mel Brooksish joke. Gonick does his research and interprets his sources with scholarly care. Inspired by the educational comic books of Latin American artist RIUS, Gonick makes world history a blast-- literally, with his predilection for onomatopoeic word balloons. In this second collection--the last left us with Alexander the Great schlepping toward Persia--Gonick takes us on a side tour through India and China. He integrates myth and history to establish the origins of sectarian conflict in India, and attends to migration patterns from the Middle East to China in order to explain the development of Buddhism and Confucianism. Dynamic intrigue and the threat of northern barbarians compete with periods of prolonged peace. This highly selective version of Chinese history, though full of diverting stories, will be a bit confusing to readers unfamiliar with the main players. Back in Rome, meanwhile, after the death of Alexander, the republic enters its period of glory, followed by the building of the empire. 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. He equivocates, however, in telling the story of Jesus, ending up with an uneasy mix of canonical fact and outright heresy. His account of the historical rise of Christianity is superb and demonstrates an interesting parallel with China: In both cases alien cults from the edge of the empires eventually captured the capital cities. Gonick's humor is mostly visual and relies on the juxtaposition of comical images with his relatively sober text. Despite his lefty, multi-culty inclinations, Gonick maintains the high level of sophistication, skepticism, and just plain fun established by the first volume.
-- Copyright ©1994, Kirkus Associates, LP. All rights reserved.
Ingram
The first Cartoon History of the Universe won raves from book critics and general readers alike and became a smash bestseller. Now Larry Gonick's back, with six more hilarious volumes in one tremendous package. Hip, multicultural, and funny, it has something for absolutely everyone. 

From the Publisher
Here's a new installment of the phenomenal bestseller that Publishers Weekly selected as one of the twelve great books of all time. Spanning ages and continents from Ancient India to Rome and China in A.D. 600, Volume II is hip, funny, and full of info.
B & W illustrations.

LARRY GONICK
Click HERE to order THE CARTOON HISTORY OF THE UNITED STATES The CARTOON HISTORY of the UNITED STATES
by Larry Gonick
Paperback: 392 pages
HarperCollins
ISBN: 0062730983
$17.95
What? You don't know what a Burgess is?
-- You can't outline the Monroe Doctrine?
-- Recall the 14th Amendment?
-- Explain the difference between a sputnik and a beatnik?
Then you need The Cartoon History of the United States to fill those gaps. From the first English colonies to the Gulf War and the S&L debacle, Larry Gonick spells it all out from his unique cartoon perspective.
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"A perfect gift for that teenager who simply can't get American history straight . . . "
-- San Francisco Chronicle
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"Gonick's irreverent humor is effective . . . the text sparkles . . . "
-- Los Angeles Times
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" . . . a vital, dynamic, and consistently challenging panorama of our past."
-- The Comics Journal
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About the Author
Larry Gonick is the creator of the bestselling Cartoon Guide series, comprised of nine books that have sold more than half a million copies and been translated into more than a dozen languages. Currently staff cartoonist for Muse magazine, he has also been a Knight Science Journalism Fellow at MIT. 
LARRY GONICK
Click HERE to order THE CARTOON GUIDE TO THE ENVIRONMENT The CARTOON GUIDE to the ENVIRONMENT
by Larry Gonick & Alice Outwater
Paperback: 240 pages
HarperCollins
ISBN: 0062732749
$16.95
For those who think the Ozone Hole is a grunge rock band or that the Green Revolution happened in Greenland, this helpful, often hilarious book provides the perfect introduction to the world of environmental literacy. From chemical cycles to life communities to food webs to pollution, deforestation, and global warming, Gonnick explains environmental concepts in layman's terms and explains their relevance and relationship to the planet's ecology.
The Cartoon Guide to the Environment covers the main topics of environmental science: chemical cycles, life communities, food webs, agriculture, human population growth, sources of energy and raw materials, waste disposal and recycling, cities, pollution, deforestation, ozone depletion, and global warming -- and puts them in the context of ecology, with discussions of population dynamics, thermodynamics, and the behavior of complex systems.
LARRY GONICK
Click HERE to order THE CARTOON GUIDE TO GENETICS The CARTOON GUIDE to GENETICS
by Larry Gonick & Mark Wheelis
Paperback: 224 pages
Harperperennial Library
ISBN: 0062730991
$16.00
Illustrates, simplifies, and humor-coats the important principles of classical and modern genetics and their experimental bases, with amusing anecdotes about how the ancients tried to explain inheritance and sex determination.
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"If you can't learn Mendelian genetics from this text, I guess you never will."
-- New Scientist
Amazon.com
Having trouble deciphering your genetic code? Do dominant genes make you feel recessive? Let reigning nonfiction cartoonist Larry Gonick and microbiologist Mark Wheelis ease your way through Mendelian genetics, molecular biology, and the basics of genetic engineering. Gonick's drawings range from a moderately detailed look at ribosomes in action to loony pictures of dancing scientists, talking peas, and opinionated fruit flies.
--Mary Ellen Curtin
"It puts textbooks to shame."
-- Matthew Meselson, Professor of Biology, Harvard University
(co-discoverer of the "one gene-one protein" principle)
LARRY GONICK
Click HERE to order THE CARTOON GUIDE TO PHYSICS The CARTOON GUIDE to PHYSICS
by Larry Gonick & Art Huffman
Paperback: 224 pages
Harperperennial Library
ISBN: 0062731009
$16.00
If you think a negative charge is something that shows up on your credit card bill -- if you imagine that Ohm's Law dictates how long to meditate -- if you believe that Newtonian mechanics will fix your car -- you need The Cartoon Guide to Physics to set you straight.You don't have to be a scientist to grasp these and many other complex ideas, because The Cartoon Guide to Physics explains them all: velocity, acceleration, explosions, electricity and magnetism, circuits -- even a taste of relativity theory -- and much more, in simple, clear, and, yes, funny illustrations. Physics will never be the same!
From the author of the bestselling The Cartoon History of the Universe--a refreshingly humorous and effective cartoon explanation of the principles of physics.
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"Gonick is close to being one of a kind."
--Discover
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It's been said that before physics students can fly with Feynman they need to walk with Halliday and Resnick. Those of us who are still toddling along, however, need Larry Gonick. Gonick's characteristically quirky drawings are teamed with physicist Art Huffman's prose to produce lessons like this: picture Sir Isaac Newton driving a Mack truck labeled "Big Inertia." Ike is talking into a CB radio, saying: "Breaker one nine: force overcomes inertia and produces acceleration. Do you read?" 
LARRY GONICK
The CARTOON GUIDE to SEX
by Larry Gonick & Christine Devault
Paperback: 247 pages
Harperperennial Library
ISBN: 0062734318
$14.95
Everything you ever wanted to know about... you know, the birds and the bees...

From the first eye contact to the therapist's couch, from the throes of ecstasy to the nitty-gritty of safer sex, from the world's sexiest animal to the dating jungle, The Cartoon Guide to Sex covers everything you've always wanted to know about sex.

Frank, informative, and written with Larry Gonick's characteristic comic verve and scientific accuracy, this book gives a comprehensive discussion of the spectrum of human sexuality, including sexual structures and functions, gender roles and sexual identity, sexual arousal and response, sexual communication, love, marriage and other arrangements, contraception, and sexual health 'without the fig leaves.'
LARRY GONICK
The CARTOON GUIDE to STATISTICS
by Larry Gonick & Woollcott Smith
Paperback: 240 pages
HarperCollins
ISBN: 0062731025
$16.00
A very clever effort at explaining the meaning and use of the major statistical methods through the medium of captioned cartoon drawings.
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"Gonick is so consistently witty and clever that the reader is barely aware of being given a thorough grounding."
--Omni
A humorous and valuable tour through modern statistics, these inspired cartoons simplify the confusing concepts of statistics for easier studying. Includes bibliography and index.

From the Back Cover:
If you have ever looked for P-values by shopping at P mart, tried to watch the Bernoulli Trials on
People's Court, or think that the standard deviation is a criminal offense in six states, then you need The Cartoon Guide to Statistics to put you on the road to statistical literacy.

The Cartoon Guide to Statistics covers all the central ideas of modern statistics: the summary and display of all data, probability in gambling and medicine, random variables, Bernoulli Trials, the Central Limit Theorem, hypothesis testing, confidence interval estimation, and much more--all explained in simple, clear, and funny illustrations. Never again will you order the Poisson Distribution in a French restaurant!

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