The cartoon history of the universe

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1. 082349872349872Dec 2024
   I think we're agreeing more than we might think, for (entertaining > threshold and accurate > threshold) is what's left after applying Sturgeon's Law to (entertaining or accurate > threshold).

   [also, I may be overly cynical, but I think making an argument already puts us well over on the accuracy side — you and I might enjoy that sort of thing, but in the grand scheme of things I see arguments as being only slightly more popular than the My Dinner With André video game adaptation]

   Have you see Gonick, Cartoon History of the Universe (1990)? I find it entertaining, and (to the extent I recognised them) think he does his sources justice at the same time. However, it did take him a dozen or so years to produce...

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2. jpm_sdMay 2023
   "The Source" by James Michener is fun historical fiction on the subject.

   https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Source_(novel)

   I'm also a big fan of the Cartoon History of the Universe series.

   https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Cartoon_History_of_the_U...

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3. 082349872349872Jan 2023
   Currently reading: Logicomix: an Epic Search for Truth (Doxiadis & Papadimitriou 2009) [my spouse found it]

   Also recommend: Gonick, The Cartoon History of the Universe

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4. astrangeJan 2022
   Larry Gonick did western equivalents of these; Cartoon History of the Universe is either the best book I've ever read or the best comic book.

   It's rather 70s though, so the art can get psychadelic and it covers several different religions as if they're literally true. But it has to be the only kids' history book written in the US that treats China and India's history as just as important as ours.

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5. astrangeApr 2021
   Cartoon History of the Universe is probably the best "nonfiction" comic ever made. (it's not inaccurate but it's kind of psychedelic and retells more than one religious founding text as if it actually happened)
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6. devnonymousAug 2020
   I just finished reading the first couple of volumes of Larry Gonick's Cartoon History of the Universe and have learned a lot about dinosaurs from that.
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