The Cartoon History of the Universe - Volume #3: River Realms, Sumer & Egypt 5000-1200, BC

The Cartoon History of the Universe #1.3

by Larry Gonick

Genres: History, Comics

51 pages, Comic

First published January 1, 1987

About the author

Larry Gonick (born 1946) 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).

Reviews

[Tawfek · Rating 1 out of 5]

There is no place for religion when you are speaking true history.
There is not a single mention of "prophets" in Egyptian history.
I would have been easy on the religious insert into the story, but it almost felt like the writer hates Egyptian civilization and Pharoahs.
Literally didn't speak about any of them with the respect they deserve.

[Brent · Rating 5 out of 5]

THIS is the STUFF. Larry Gonick sets up early world history in the fertile crescent and Nile valley.
I must reread these volumes, and this one.