http://sequart.org advancing comics as art Sun, 19 Apr 2026 18:44:55 +0000 en hourly 1 http://sequart.org/magazine/47189/larry-gonick-thomas-jefferson-and-the-fourth-of-july/ http://sequart.org/magazine/47189/larry-gonick-thomas-jefferson-and-the-fourth-of-july/#comments Mon, 30 Jun 2014 11:00:11 +0000 Greg Carpenter http://sequart.org/?p=47189 The first time I proposed teaching a comics class, someone asked me what I wanted to call it.  “Um … Comics?  Comic Books?  Something like that,” I said, thinking it should’ve been pretty obvious.  The… [more]]]> 1 http://sequart.org/magazine/13974/on-larry-gonick-the-cartoon-history-of-the-universe-1978/ http://sequart.org/magazine/13974/on-larry-gonick-the-cartoon-history-of-the-universe-1978/#comments Tue, 24 Jul 2012 11:00:59 +0000 Colin Smith http://sequart.org/?p=13974 Human beings don’t arrive on the planet Earth until its opening chapter is very nearly over. Yet every single panel of the first book of Larry Gonick’s The Cartoon History of the Universe contains something… [more]]]> 0 http://sequart.org/magazine/28295/call-samus-davis-jr-he%e2%80%99ll-vouch-for-me-your-humble-servant-endorses-the-cartoon-history-of-the-universe/ http://sequart.org/magazine/28295/call-samus-davis-jr-he%e2%80%99ll-vouch-for-me-your-humble-servant-endorses-the-cartoon-history-of-the-universe/#comments Fri, 30 Jul 2004 12:27:45 +0000 Jeff Chon http://sequart.org/?p=28295 Comics made me a smarter person. Not necessarily bragging here; it’s not as if I’d just said, “comics made me the smartest person in the world” (because my brain’s staggering capacity for intellectual growth at… [more]]]> 0