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, ...

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A capacity crowd of students gathered for a talk titled “High Concept, Low Art: Cartoonists Larry Gonick and Randall Munroe in Conversation about Life, the Universe and Nothing” on Monday night in ...

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 ...

Larry Gonick, a polymath with a sense of the absurd, has mastered the art of producing graphic, pun-filled books that simultaneously entertain readers and educate them about the past. Publishers ...

Based on the popular series of books by Larry Gonick, 'The Cartoon History of the Universe" CD-Rom rolls through 13 billion years (the first few billion go by pretty fast) with engaging cartoons and ...

SAN FRANCISCO — Cartoonist Larry Gonick knew he might be asking for trouble when he set out to draw a comic-strip version about the birth of Islam. He had no idea that the third volume in his "Cartoon ...

Booms and stinks are the fun parts of chemistry. Understanding the principles behind them rather less so, and many a potential chemist abandons ship as their college course sails into the quagmire of ...

The work of a cartoonist is unique because “one graphic can tell a story,” said Lawrence R. “Larry” Gonick ’67, a Harvard mathematics student who went on to dedicate his career to depicting big ideas ...

The Cartoon Guide to Chemistry, by Larry Gonick and Craig Criddle, HarperCollins, 2005, 249 pages, $16.95 (ISBN 0-06-093677-0) The inherent conflict of terminology in the title "The Cartoon Guide to ...

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