Cartoon History of the Universe 1 Vol. 1-7 (Cartoon History of the Universe) (Pt.1)

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Customer Reviews:

Funny History [Posted on 2007-10-10]
My older sister originally bought me and my younger sister the computer program. That was a few years ago, but it was a nice dry sarcastic, but silly humor.
Then I ordered this book, which has much the same type of humor. I wish it were in color instead of black and white, but otherwise, a fun way to "read" history.

readable history [Posted on 2007-10-19]
This book and the other two in this series don't make history less complex but they sure make it readable!

Wow! If only high school/college history had been this fun and insightful [Posted on 2008-06-03]
You know it takes a comic to get to heart of humanity. In most history books you get a narrow point of view, and one that is usually "politically correct" according to the standards of the day. By making a comic version of history, the author can get around all of the "PC"ness of most history books and really hit home with the way humanity *is* and *always was.* The "sheep love" of early humans was a laugh riot. I never learned so much while having such a good time.

I recommend these for history buffs and non-history buffs. Really it's just a good read period. Forget that it's history.

Funny pictures, serious topic [Posted on 2008-11-03]
It is always great to have a look at alternative versions of familiar things. It gives different prospective and reminds that current interpretation of some events may (and in many cases is) not absolutely correct.

Cartoon Editorials About History [Posted on 2008-12-14]
This book has excellent art, a great sense of humor and it responds to a great idea if it lived to its title, which it doesn't. This is not a work of history but a series of pictorial editorials, often times based on laughable and sorely dated sources, such as C.A. Diop's "The African Origin of Civilization." Women get unwarranted credit for inventions in a an effort to enhance their historical actual or imaginary roles, sundry events and figures are diminished simply because the author projects his contemporary outlook into the past, etc. In other words, this is just Gonick's Californian/Berkeley/San Francisco brand of illustrated activist soapboxing on history. Once your realize that, you might get an used copy and read it with a concomitant enormous block of salt by your side.

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