The Cartoon Guide to U.S. History: Volume 1 1585-1865

The Cartoon Guide to U.S. History #1

by Larry Gonick

Paperback

Published January 1, 1987

About the author

Larry Gonick (born 1946) is a cartoonist best known for The Cartoon History of the Universe, a history of the world in comic book form, which he has been publishing in installments since 1977. He has also written The Cartoon History of the United States, and he has adapted the format for a series of co-written guidebooks on other subjects, beginning with The Cartoon Guide to Genetics in 1983. The diversity of his interests, and the success with which his books have met, have together earned Gonick the distinction of being "the most well-known and respected of cartoonists who have applied their craft to unravelling the mysteries of science" (Drug Discovery Today, March 2005).

Reviews

[Marianne · Rating 3 out of 5]

The text is brisk and engaging, as I would've expected from my enjoyment of Gonick's other cartoon guides, and the perspective was surprisingly critical and even anti-racist for 1987. I did not like that some of the caricature-style cartoons crossed a line for me into outright offensive (sexist or racist).