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Editorial Reviews

Amazon.com Review

Continuing right where the first book left off, The Cartoon History of the Universe II once again combines Gonick's superb cartooning with the lessons of history. Find out what Lynn Johnston, creator of For Better of Worse, calls "a gift to those of us who love to laugh and who love to learn." Part II contains volumes 8 to 13, from the Springtime of China to the Fall of Rome (and India, too!).

From Booklist

As Ray Olson noted in his review of the first seven volumes of this cartoon history, Gonick "consistently considers the status of women, lower-class people, and the losers of wars" in one of the "most amusing, provocative surveys of the planet's progress ever made." Typically, Gonick lays down a serious narrative line, then illustrates it with something boffo; he varies his shadings and panel sizes dramatically and often drops in a "footnote" that is a separate, related story. His first seven volumes began with a bang, the big one, and took the reader through the time of Alexander the Great. We pick up Alexander marching to India, where he makes an about-face, thus occasioning Gonick's treatise on India with witty portraits of Hinduism, Buddhism, and the Jain sect, followed by a history of China, concentrating on Confucius and various monarchs and occupying nearly half the book. Then Gonick flashes back, as it were, to the aftermath of Alexander, tracing Rome's rise and fall through 564 A.D., the end of Justinian's reign. The result, in both volumes, is simply a delightful way to be introduced to world history--relaxing and yet often provocative reading for adults but also an excellent primer for children and for poor readers. This new installment ought to circulate heavily and bring renewed demand for the first. John Mort

From Kirkus Reviews

Imagine a collaboration between Arnold Toynbee and R. Crumb and you get a pretty good idea of Gonick's clever and ambitious comic book series. This volume should not be taken as some kind of Mel Brooksish joke. Gonick does his research and interprets his sources with scholarly care. Inspired by the educational comic books of Latin American artist RIUS, Gonick makes world history a blast-- literally, with his predilection for onomatopoeic word balloons. In this second collection--the last left us with Alexander the Great schlepping toward Persia--Gonick takes us on a side tour through India and China. He integrates myth and history to establish the origins of sectarian conflict in India, and attends to migration patterns from the Middle East to China in order to explain the development of Buddhism and Confucianism. Dynamic intrigue and the threat of northern barbarians compete with periods of prolonged peace. This highly selective version of Chinese history, though full of diverting stories, will be a bit confusing to readers unfamiliar with the main players. Back in Rome, meanwhile, after the death of Alexander, the republic enters its period of glory, followed by the building of the empire. Problems of succession lead to lots of lurid anecdotes about perverse and insatiable emperors, violent entertainments, brutal conquests--all of which Gonick records with Mad-like irreverence. He equivocates, however, in telling the story of Jesus, ending up with an uneasy mix of canonical fact and outright heresy. His account of the historical rise of Christianity is superb and demonstrates an interesting parallel with China: In both cases alien cults from the edge of the empires eventually captured the capital cities. Gonick's humor is mostly visual and relies on the juxtaposition of comical images with his relatively sober text. Despite his lefty, multi-culty inclinations, Gonick maintains the high level of sophistication, skepticism, and just plain fun established by the first volume. -- Copyright ©1994, Kirkus Associates, LP. All rights reserved.

From the Publisher

Here's a new installment of the phenomenal bestseller that Publishers Weekly selected as one of the twelve graphic books of all time. Spanning ages and continents from Ancient India to Rome and China in A.D. 600, Volume II is hip, funny, and full of info.

B & W illustrations.

From the Inside Flap

Here's a new installment of the phenomenal bestseller that Publishers Weekly selected as one of the twelve graphic books of all time. Spanning ages and continents from Ancient India to Rome and China in A.D. 600, Volume II is hip, funny, and full of info.

B & W illustrations.

Product details

Publisher ‏ : ‎ Main Street Books/Doubleday
Publication date ‏ : ‎ January 1, 1994
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Print length ‏ : ‎ 305 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0385420935
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0385420938
Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 1.28 pounds
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 8.46 x 0.94 x 10.79 inches
Best Sellers Rank: #107,726 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
- #110 in Historical Study Reference (Books)
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Larry Gonick

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Larry Gonick has been creating comics that explain history, science, and other big subjects for more than thirty years, ever since Blood from a Stone: A Cartoon Guide to Tax Reform appeared in 1977. He has been a Knight Science Journalism Fellow at MIT and was staff cartoonist for Muse magazine from 1998 to 2015.