Edward O. Wilson, Jim Ottaviani, and C.M. Butzer. Island, $28 (240p) ISBN 978-1-61091-958-6
Ottaviani (Hawking) skillfully adapts Wilson’s spirited 1994 memoir into a graphic narrative full of personality, but without skimping on the science. Wilson, the famed ecologist and self-proclaimed “naturalist hobo,” illuminates big ideas by...
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Jim Ottaviani and Leland Purvis. Abrams ComicArts, $24.95 (240p) ISBN 978-1-4197-1893-9
A powerful, sympathetic portrait of one of the 20th century’s great minds, this graphic biography of Alan Turing doesn’t play the usual game of establishing its hero as the only smart person in the room. Here, the great brain of Bletchley Park was...
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Jim Ottaviani and Leland Myrick. Roaring Brook/First Second, $29.99 (266p) ISBN 978-1-59643-259-8
Jumping from the Manhattan Project laboratories of Los Alamos, N.Mex., to the beaches of Rio, Ottaviani and Myrick's portrait of the Nobel Prize–winning physicist and general polymath Richard Feynman eschews chronology in favor of rhythm, and it's...
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Jim Ottaviani and Leland Myrick. First Second, $29.99 (304p) ISBN 978-1-62672-025-1
This layered graphic biography of the theoretical physicist Stephen Hawking presents a heroic yet nuanced portrait of the 20th century’s second-most famous scientist, after Albert Einstein. A gawky motormouthed teen “hopeless at building things, and
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Jim Ottaviani and Maris Wicks. MacMillan/First Second, $19.99 (144p) ISBN 978-1-59643-865-1
Ottaviani(Feynman) examines the lives and scientific work of the three great primatologists of the 1960s, as they intersect through mutual mentor Louis Leakey. The book begins with a young Goodall, who is fascinated by Tarzan (and is jealous of “the
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Jim Ottaviani and Maris Wicks. First Second, $19.99 (176p) ISBN 978-1-62672-877-6
Following on the heels of the first all-female spacewalk in October 2019 comes a timely graphic novel from the pair behind Primates. This latest offering examines the hurdles, triumphs, politics, and prejudices surrounding the first women astronauts.
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Jim Ottaviani and Jerel Dye. First Second, $32.99 (304p) ISBN 978-1-62672-876-9
Science comics veteran Ottaviani (Hawking) partners with Dye (Pigs Might Fly) on an inventive graphic biography of Albert Einstein (1879–1955) that effectively employs the comics medium to demonstrate the scientist’s hallmark nonlinear perspectives...
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Jim Ottaviani, Author, Janine Johnston, Illustrator . G.T. Labs $12.95 (71p) ISBN 978-0-9788037-0-4
This nonfiction graphic novel gives the history of three early 20th-century magicians and the invention of the standard levitation trick. It's claimed that “Entranced Fakir,” or “The Levitation of the Princess of Karnak”
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Jim Ottaviani, Author, Big Time Attic, With . G.T. Labs $22.95 (165p) ISBN 978-0-9660106-6-4
Ottaviani has been writing historical graphic novels about scientists for years, but he's outdone himself with this delightful and fascinating account of the late–19th-century struggle between two scientists over fossilized dinosaur bones...
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Jim Ottaviani, Author, Dylan Meconis, Illustrator . G.T. Labs $11.95 (84p) ISBN 978-0-9788037-1-1
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his nonfiction graphic novel retelling psychologist Harry Harlow's famous experiments is as disturbing as it is excellent. “We'll show you what love looks like—and what it does,” says the young researcher, as he turns...
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Jim Ottaviani, Author, Linda Medley, Illustrator, Donna Barr, Illustrator G.T. Labs $16.95 (142p) ISBN 978-0-9660106-1-9
A collection of women-drawn comics profiling women scientists should be a great way to celebrate unknown and underappreciated female professionals and inspire young women to go into the scientific fields. But this collection almost entirely misses...
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