The Cartoon History of the Universe - Volume #2: Sticks and Stones, The Descent of People

The Cartoon History of the Universe #1.2

by Larry Gonick

#2 of 6 1981

Genres: History, Comics

52 pages, Comic

First published January 1, 1979

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 5 out of 5]

I am just obsessed with history.
I feel the things we like tell so much about us, not necessarily always good things. Luckily, I can't psychoanalyse people based on what they like.
But I feel this could mean that the past matters so much to me.
Each of these issues is packed with history, and it reads very slow, but at the same time it's informational if you don't know these things.
Like who cares if you take more each page, if in the same page you learn so many new things?!
Next issue will cover Sumer and Egypt and the issue after that will cover parts of the old testament!