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, ...

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 ...

I don't remember how old I was when I first picked up the first volume of The Cartoon History of the Universe —probably about 11 or 12—but I remember thinking that it was the first time I'd laughed ...

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 ...

Unlikely as it may seem, something interesting to a wide audience – and yes, even entertaining – came from a subject like tax reform. A cartoon book about that topic marked the beginning of Larry ...

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 ...

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 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 ...