Larry Gonick
The Cartoon History of the Universe III
From the Rise of Arabia to the Renaissance
An irreverent survey in comics spanning world history from the birth of Islam to the Byzantine Empire to the Italian Renaissance.
Larry Gonick's celebrated series The Cartoon History of the Universe is
a unique fusion of world history and the comics medium, a work of serious
scholarship and a masterpiece of popular literature. Praised by Jonathan
Spence in the New York Times Book Review as "a curious hybrid, at once
flippant and scholarly, witty and politically correct, zany and
traditionalist," Gonick's clever illustrations deliver important information
with a deceptively light tone, teaching us about the people and events that
have shaped our world.
This long-awaited new volume covers the Middle Ages around the globe,
including the multicultural Middle East, West Africa and the cross-Saharan
trade, Central Asia and the Byzantine Empire, the European Dark Ages and the
Crusades, the Mongol conquests, the Black Death, the Ottoman Empire, the
Italian Renaissance, and the rise of Spain, leading up to Columbus's
departure for the new world. Gonick offers an historical survey that is at
once multicultural, humanistic, skeptical, and laugh-out-loud funny.
"An amazing example of the results of over-ambition: a masterpiece!
A must for every animated reader."—Steve Martin, actor and writer
"Insidiously disguised as cartoon books, Larry Gonick's well
researched and hilariously illustrated graphic texts should be in every
library."—Lynn Johnston, cartoonist of For Better or For Worse
"The use of comic art to tell serious history is a brilliant
application of the medium....Bravo, Larry!"—Will Eisner, creator of
The Spirit, A Contract with God, and The Dreamer
"Informative, funny, and a triumph of the cartoonist's craft—in
other words, cause for celebration."—Charles Johnson, author of
Middle Passage
"Larry Gonick makes social evolution both graspable in its
complexity and funny in its humanity."—Bill Griffith, creator of
Zippy the Pinhead
Larry Gonick, winner of the Inkpot Award, is a professional cartoonist and author of The Cartoon History of the Universe series, among other illustrated books. He lives in San Francisco, California.
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