The Cartoon History of the Modern World is a wickedly funny take on modern history. It is essentially a complete and up-to-date course in college level Modern World History, but presented as a graphic novel. In an engaging and humorous graphic style, Larry Gonick covers the history, personalities and big topics that have shaped our universe over the past five centuries, including the Industrial Revolution, the American Revolution, the Russian Revolution, the evolution of political, social, economic, and scientific thought, Communism, Fascism, Nazism, the Cold War, Globalization--and much more.

Volume I of the Cartoon History of the Modern World picks up from Gonick's award winning Cartoon History of the Universe Series. That series began with the Big Bang and ended with Christopher Columbus sailing for the New World. This book starts off with peoples that Columbus "discovered" and ends with the U.S. Revolution.

Author: Larry Gonick
Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: William Morrow & Company
Published: 12/26/2006
Series: Cartoon Guide
Pages: 272
Weight: 1lbs
Size: 9.20h x 7.36w x 0.70d
ISBN: 9780060760045


Review Citation(s):
School Library Journal 01/01/2007 pg. 162
Booklist 01/01/2007 pg. 71
Library Journal 03/15/2007 pg. 51
Kirkus Best Books 06/15/2007 pg. 6
SLJ's Best Books 12/01/2007 pg. 41
Publishers Weekly 12/11/2006

About the Author
Gonick, Larry: -

Larry Gonick has been creating comics that explain math, history, science, and other big subjects for more than forty years. He has been a calculus instructor at Harvard (where he earned his BA and MA in mathematics) and a Knight Science Journalism Fellow at MIT, and he is currently staff cartoonist for Muse magazine. He lives in San Francisco, California.