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DIGNIFYING
SCIENCE |
Written by James S. Ottaviani
Art by Marie Severinson, Ramona Fradon,
Lea Hernandez, Linda Medley, Donna Barr,
Mary Fleener, Anne Timmons, Stephanie Gladden,
& Carla "Speed" McNeil, et al |
Paperback: 144 pages
G.T. Labs
ISBN: 0966010612 |
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$16.95
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| Dignifying Science
is the newest book from G.T. Labs that tells true stories about scientists
in comics form. This 144 page trade paperback features famous women scientists
including Marie Curie, Emmy Noether, Lise Meitner, Rosalind Franklin, Barbara
McClintock, Birute Galdikas, and (believe it or not) Hedy Lamarr. |
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| Scientists and
non-scientists alike will appreciate the human context this award-winning
anthology gives to some of the most famous names in the history of discovery.
With stories written by Jim Ottaviani and art by notable illustrators such
as Donna Barr, Mary Fleener, Stephanie Gladden, Roberta Gregory, Lea Hernandez,
Carla Speed McNeil, Linda Medley, Jen Sorensen, Anne Timmons and comics
legends Ramona Fradon and Marie Severin, this handsome trade paperback,
complete with a full-color dust jacket, will please readers of all ages.
Notes and references at the end lead them to discover even more on their
own!
An Eisner nominee (like its
companion volume Two-Fisted Science) and Lulu of the Year nominee for 1999,
Dignifying Science has earned praise from the toughest critics of all:
the scientists themselves. Discover Magazine (February, 2000) says "In
Ottaviani's hands, cartooning becomes exciting education. It's a tribute
to Ottaviani's breezy style that one wants to dig into [the] references
and learn a little nuclear physics. Now that is a superheroic achievement."
Simon Singh, award-winning author of The Code Book and Fermat's Enigma
writes: "When it comes to popularising science, Jim Ottaviani's comic books
do an excellent job of telling scientific stories in a fun and absorbing
way. His latest, Dignifying Science, is a beautifully drawn series of stories
about women who made major contributions to science and technology, but
who have been largely forgotten..." (The Independent - London, 12 December
1999).
Jean Kumagai, Physics
Today
I felt a little self-conscious
paging through a comic book while waiting at the bar of an upscale Manhattan
restaurant. My taste in books usually runs toward the ones without pictures.
But Dignifying Science quickly won me over.
Will Eisner, creator of
The Spirit
A fine work and contribution
to the body of good and mature comics...bravo.
Retailer Reviews, The
Comics Buyer's Guide
Entertaining and inspirational...a
home schooler's dream. If you know any girls with the slightest aptitude
in math or sciences, can change their lives by buying them this.
About the Author
Jim Ottaviani is a nuclear
engineer now working as a librarian at the University of Michigan. He has
been writing in and about comics for almost 10 years, and his stories have
earned him a Xeric Grant and Eisner Award nominations. |
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FALLOUT |
| by Jim Ottaviani, Steve Lieber, Vince Locke, and more! |
b/w, painted cover
Paperback: 240 pages
G.T. Labs
ISBN: 0966010639 |
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$19.95
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So, you've always
wanted to learn how to build an atomic bomb? You're in luck: Jim Ottaviani
is not only a comics writer...he also has a master's degree in nuclear
engineering!
But even though it's not
a complete do-it-yourself manual (assembly required, and plutonium is definitely
NOT included), Fallout will bring you up to speed on the science and politics
of the first nuclear gadgets. |
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| Like its companion
volumes, the focus of Fallout is on the scientists themselves -- in particular
J. Robert Oppenheimer and Leo Szilard, whose lives offer a cautionary tale
about the uneasy alliance between the military, the government, and the
beginnings of "big science."
Fallout features art by award
winning artists such as Steve Lieber (Whiteout, Batman), Vince Locke (Deadworld,
Sandman), Bernie Mireault (Mackenzie Queen, The Jam, Grendel Tales), Eddy
Newell (Black Lightning, Batman), Jeff Parker (Interman, "Solitaire, Wonder
Woman") with Janine Johnston and a painted cover by noted Studio artist
Jeffrey Jones. |
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TWO-FISTED
SCIENCE |
| by Jim Ottaviani, Paul Chadwick, Colleen Doran, &
Guy Davis, et al |
Paperback: 128 pages
B&W
G.T. Labs
ISBN: 0966010620 |
$12.95
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| TWO-FISTED SCIENCE
is the first in a series of books in comics form telling true stories about
scientists. This 128 page trade paperback features tales of famous physicists
including Hans Bethe, Niels Bohr, Albert Einstein, Richard Feynman, Galileo,
Werner Heisenberg, Gottfried Leibniz, Isaac Newton, Robert Oppenheimer,
and Wolfgang Pauli. |
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are written by Jim Ottaviani, a former researcher and nuclear engineer--
now a reference librarian at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor. The
illustrators include award winning artists such as Paul Chadwick,
Donna
Barr,
Bernie Mireault, and Colleen Doran.
The stories offer a human
context often missing when students learn the equations that bear the scientists'
names. Readers, drawn to the book by the compelling anecdotes, will discover
intriguing characters that lived real lives beyond ink on paper. End notes
and references will lead them to further information on the scientists
they've read about.
The trade paperback is self-published
with the generous assistance of a grant from the Xeric foundation. Established
by Peter Laird (one of the creators of the "Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles")
each year the foundation awards a select group of comics creators money
to bring their work to press. I am grateful to the foundation for their
support and confident that you will consider this portion of the "Turtle"
fortune well-spent!
Penn
Jillette, the taller, more talkative half of Penn & Teller:
"I
loved seeing real superheroes in the same medium as the fantasy superheroes.
Man, these guys don't pale standing next to Batman and Superman."
Will
Eisner, creator of The Spirit:
"This
is exactly the kind of stuff that should be done in our medium."
FACTSHEET
5 #63, March 1998:
"[W]onderfully
offbeat and human. This collection illustrates some of science history's
more offbeat sides: the blood feuds, the mischief, the love affairs, and
the secret espionage."
Seattle's
THE STRANGER, 11/20/97:
"The
writing is informed and educational, but never dry. This would be a great
textbook for a high school science class."
Comics
Buyers Guide, 1/2/98:
"[T]his
stunning collection of stories and anecdotes about science and scientists
will engross and enlighten the reader ... a bargain and so damned good
I can hardly believe it exists." |
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Spiegelman |
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MAUS:
A
Survivor's Tale;
My
Father Bleeds History;
Here
My Troubles Began |
by Art Spiegelman
Fred Jordon (Editor) |
Hardcover: 340 pages
Pantheon Books
ISBN: 0679406417 |
$35.00
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Ingram
A son struggles to come
to terms with the horrific story of his parents and their experiences during
the Holocaust and in postwar America, in an omnibus edition of Spiegelman's
two-part, Pulitzer Prize-winning best-seller. 25,000 first printing. |
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From Kirkus
Reviews
Together with the much-acclaimed
first volume of Spiegelman's Maus (1987--not reviewed), this unusual Holocaust
tale will forever alter the way serious readers think of graphic narratives
(i.e., comic books). For his unforgettable combination of words and pictures,
Spiegelman draws from high and low culture, and blends autobiography with
the story of his father's survival of the concentration camps. In funny-book
fashion, the all-too-real characters here have the heads of animals--the
Jews are mice, the Nazis are rats, and the Poles are pigs--a stark Orwellian
metaphor for dehumanized relations during WW II. Much of Spiegelman's narrative
concerns his own struggle to coax his difficult father into remembering
a past he'd rather forget. What emerges in father Vladek's tale is a study
in survival; he makes it through by luck, randomness, and cleverness. Physically
strong, he bluffs his way through the camps as a tinsmith and a shoemaker,
and also exploits his ability with languages. Every day in Auschwitz, and
later in Dachau, demands new bribes and masterly bartering. All of this
helps explain Vladek's art of survival in the present: his cheap, miserly
behavior; his disappointment over Spiegelman's marriage to a non-Jew; his
constant criticism of his own second wife and his son; and even his inexcusable
racism. Haunted by the brother who died in the camps, Spiegelman (born
in postwar Sweden) also mourns his mother, who survived only to commit
suicide in the late 60's. Within the time span of the writing of Maus (1978-91),
Vladek died, and Spiegelman now must sort out his complex feelings as he
reflects on the success of the first volume--a success built on the tragedy
of the Holocaust. With all his doubts, Spiegelman pushes on, realizing
that his book deserves a place in the ongoing struggle between memory and
forgetting. Full of hard-earned humor and pathos, Maus (I and II) takes
your breath away with its stunning visual style, reminding us that while
we can never forget the Holocaust, we may need new ways to remember.
--Copyright
©1991, Kirkus Associates, LP. All rights reserved.
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"Maus is a book that cannot
be put down, truly, even to sleep. When two of the mice speak of love,
you are moved, when they suffer, you weep. Slowly through this little tale
comprised of suffering, humor and life's daily trials, you are captivated
by the language of an old Eastern European family, and drawn into the gentle
and mesmerizing rhythm, and when you finish Maus, you are unhappy to have
left that magical world."
--Umberto
Eco
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MAUS
Boxed
Set:
A
Survivor's Tale
My
Father Bleeds History
Here
My Troubles Began |
| by Art Spiegelman |
Paperback Boxed edition
Pantheon Books
ISBN: 0679748407 |
$28.00
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"All too infrequently, a
book comes along that's as daring as it is acclaimed. Art Spiegelman's
Maus is just such book."
-- Esquire
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About the
Author
Art Spiegelman is co-founder/editor
of Raw, the acclaimed magazine of avant-garde comics and graphics His work
has been published in the New York Times Playboy, the Village Voice, and
many other periodicals, and his drawings have been exhibited in museums
and galleries here and abroad. Honors he has received for Maus include
a Guggenheim fellowship, and nomination for the National Book Critics Circle
Award. Mr. Spiegelman lives in New York City with his wife, Francoise Mouly,
and their daughter, Nadja. |
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OPUS:
Volume One |
| by Barry Windsor-Smith |
Hardcover: 176 pages
Fantagraphics Books
ISBN: 1560973676 |
$39.95
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| Barry Windsor-Smith
has been a pop culture icon since his fantastic and meticulous drawings
brought Conan the Barbarian to life in the pages of Marvel Comics beginning
in 1970. Over a thirty year period since, he has continued to forge new
channels of personal expression in the storytelling arts. |
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| With this first
volume of BWS: OPUS, the acclaimed artist and writer of romantic, witty
and heroic fantasies pulls hard on the rudder of Reality to turn back against
the course of Time. But this is no "time-travel" caper, it is the real
thing. Barry Windsor-Smith has a past; a history to tell of Extraordinary
Experiences that are no less exciting or bizarre than any of his literary
or painterly creations.
The true story of BWS, as
a lone soul caught up in the transcendent phenomena of Cosmic Experience
begins here, in his autobiography called OPUS. |
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