Science Graphic Novels
Top 10 Science Graphic Novels
: Feynman, Radioactive: Marie and Pierre Curie, A Tale of Love and Fallout, Clan Apis, Primates: The Fearless Science of Jane Goodall, Dian Fossey, and Biruté Galdikas, Suspended In Language: Niels Bohr's Life, Discoveries, And The Century He Shaped, Dignifying Science: Stories about Women Scientists, Trinity: A Graphic History of the First Atomic Bomb, Journey by Starlight: A Time Traveler's Guide to Life, the Universe, and Everything, Last of the Sandwalkers, Evolution: The Story of Life on Earth
| Author | Jim Ottaviani |
| ISBN | 1596432594 |
Richard Feynman: physicist . . . Nobel winner . . . bestselling author . . . safe-cracker. In this substantial graphic novel biography, First Second presents the larger-than-life exploits of Nobel-winning quantum physicist, adventurer, musician, world-class raconteur, and one of the greatest...
Radioactive: Marie and Pierre Curie, A Tale of Love and Fallout
| Author | Lauren Redniss |
| ISBN | 0061351326 |
Radioactive is the visual journey into the life of Marie Curie, as told through the dazzling collage style of acclaimed author and artist Lauren Redniss. A brilliant visual storyteller, Redniss has hand-designed more than 100 color collages to tell Curie’s story, fascinating in its scientific...
Clan Apis is one of the funniest and most moving educational books I've ever read. Jay Hosler's writing is clear and inventive; you don't even notice you're learning a lot while you're reading this. Very much in the vein of what Richard Adams does for rabbits in Watership Down, Hosler does a fantastic...
| Author | Jim Ottaviani |
| ISBN | 1596438657 |
Jim Ottaviani returns with an action-packed account of the three greatest primatologists of the last century: Jane Goodall, Dian Fossey, and Biruté Galdikas. These three ground-breaking researchers were all students of the great Louis Leakey, and each made profound contributions to primatology—and...
| Author | Jim Ottaviani |
| ISBN | 0966010655 |
Einstein looked up to him, the Nazis tried to abduct him, his institute in Copenhagen hosted just about every Nobel prize winner in physics you can name (and then some), and Winston Churchill considered him a dangerous, dangerous man. His friends and enemies agreed: Niels Bohr was more than the father...
| Author | Jim Ottaviani |
| ISBN | 0966010647 |
This book focuses on six female scientist and while the text is written by Jim Ottaviani, the comics are drawn by female artists. The stories/mini-bios are all quite good and as always I appreciate Ottaviani's careful research, and I love all the art. But there is something that feels unfinished about...
| Author | Jonathan Fetter-Vorm |
| ISBN | 0809094681 |
Trinity, the debut graphic book by the gifted illustrator Jonathan Fetter-Vorm, depicts in vivid detail the dramatic history of the race to build and the decision to drop the first atomic bomb. This sweeping historical narrative traces the spark of invention from the laboratories of nineteenth-century...
| Author | Ian Flitcroft |
| ISBN | 1935548239 |
Albert Einstein said his first ideas about relativity came from looking in the mirror as a teenager and wondering what it would be like to travel on a beam of light. This is the story of that journey... Journey by Starlight follows Albert Einstein and his traveling companion through space and time as they...
MEET LUCY. She's a fearless explorer, a brilliant scientist, and a tireless leader.
She's also a half inch tall.
THERE IS AN ENTIRE CIVILIZATION under the big palm tree by the edge of the desert—a society of beetle. In this bug's paradise, beetles write books, raise families, and...
| Author | Jay Hosler |
| ISBN | 0809094762 |
An accessible graphic introduction to evolution for the most science-phobic reader
Illustrated by the brilliant duo Kevin Cannon and Zander Cannon, this volume is written by the noted comic author and professor of biology Jay Hosler. Evolution features the same characters introduced...
The Stuff of Life: A Graphic Guide to Genetics and DNA
| Author | Mark Schultz |
| ISBN | 0809089386 |
Let's face it: From adenines to zygotes, from cytokinesis to parthenogenesis, even the basics of genetics can sound utterly alien. So who better than an alien to explain it all? Enter Bloort 183, a scientist from an asexual alien race threatened by disease, who's been charged with researching the fundamentals...
T-Minus: The Race to the Moon
| Author | Jim Ottaviani |
| ISBN | 1416949607 |
Question:What happens when you take two global superpowers, dozens of daring pilots, thousands of engineers and scientists, and then point them at the night sky and say "Go!"
Answer:A SPACE RACE!
The whole world Followed the countdown to sending the first men to the moon. T-Minus:...
Cartoon History of the Universe I, Vol. 1-7: From the Big Bang to Alexander the Great
| Author | Larry Gonick |
| ISBN | 0385265204 |
This is a really fun—and actually quite comprehensive—historical overview. It's very handy as sort of a quick-reference guide and/or as a supplemental companion to the reading of primary source history texts. (I found it to be fabulously helpful along these lines with respect to Herodotus.)
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