It’s called The Cartoon History of the Modern World. Ebeth has read it. Anyone else? Check this thread out in any case; the ingenious Mr. G. says he’s likely to stop by soon.
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It’s called The Cartoon History of the Modern World. Ebeth has read it. Anyone else? Check this thread out in any case; the ingenious Mr. G. says he’s likely to stop by soon.
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Oo! First post (I think)! Ok, randomness over. I haven’t read it, but what’s it about? (Maybe Ebeth will tell me…or someone else can.) And he should stop by…I strongly encourage it.
Hey, a thread! w00t! I read it, yupyup. Actually, it’s probably overdue by now. Whoops. ‘Tis amazing, y’allz should read it. I thought it was more interesting than the CHotU’s. I especially liked the bits about the east/middle east/everywhere that wasn’t europe+the us because i didn’t know much about that stuff.
1-Just what it says in the title. It’s a history book with cartoons. This one starts at columbus i think? and it’s the history of the world. the other ones started back at the big bang. Anyhoo, they’re really funny and have a lot of interesting factoids about random stuffins.
Ha! This is only Cartoon History of the Modern World, Part I! I wonder how many parts it’s going to have. Too many, I’ll bet…
Not enough.
Hey Koko! Haven’t seen you in a while! *pies*
*gasps*
The actual Koko?
*is impressed*
*decides to frequent thread in hopes of a glimpse of Urania or Chad even though she isn’t planning on reading the book, in the near future anyway*
*curtsies to Kokopelli in her untested pie-proof rain poncho that’s working through duct tape and has survived everything so far*
*skips merrily away*
curious and questioning: I saw Urania over in the “Living History” thread.
Really? I should be going there to service my identity anyway.
*skips away again*
Cool. Now I know what I can spend my birthday money on!
Saluton, Kokopelli.
Kiel vi?
No, I’m not going to tell you what it means!
*is pied*
*runs away dripping with pie*
*slips and falls*
I’ll lend the book to you if I ever get around to buying it c&q.
Larry Gonick (if you ever come round here):
I wish to know why Bo does not have an udder on my totebag.
It is very confuzzling. BUt I still love it so
(10) I composed the graphic for Musery from the two drawings on Bo’s Page. The picture of Bo standing on hind feet does not have an udder. That accounts for the totebag. So your question should actually be: why doesn’t Bo have an udder on Bo’s Page?
There’s another one? WIN.
Must read it. Mustmustmust.
Why doesn’t Bo have and udder on Bo’s page?
(I was actually wondering that too, because she’s got an udder on the fan mail page so for awhile I wasn’t sure if Bo was a she or he. That’s what I wrote to Muse :D)
Aeiou wants to know how Bo’s udder appeared in this topic. Most illogical! She suggests discussing it in an udder location.
The Cartoon History of the Modern World, Part I, contains at least five errors. Can you find them?
I’ve read cartoon histry of the univse vol.1 and 3 and my qustion is whay dont the muses have big noes
Pwt does.
(15),
Well, for starters, that dumpy little cartoon M.C. in the book doesn’t look anything like Larry Gonick. Larry is almost seven feet tall and resembles Severus Snape.
Oh my gosh. Kokopelli, Crraw/Aeiou, and Bo, in one thread? Wowee.
I haven’t read the book, but will probably read it in vain attempt (I apologize for the improper grammar – was that improper at all, I wonder? I”m not sure) to find the mistakes Bo found. I haven’t read the other ones because I didn’t like the beginning of the first one very much.
If Pwt ever appears here, which of course he will not, because I ask for him, I was wondering what you think of my discovery about your gender. Although this thread isn’t about meeting the Muses, it’s about Mr. Gonick’s book. Oh well. Blahity.
19-sounds proper to me.
seven feet? *cowers* No! The world doesn’t need more tall people! Say it isn’t so!
19- Hmm, maybe in a vain atempy. I’m not sure. It sounds fine the way you said it.
Muses! w00t! *pies all the muses, including Koko*
THF, were you proving Pwt a boy or a girl? Cause there’s one issue where Pwt sort of sounded like a girl…
21 – If you read post 198 on the January Jubilee thread, (I’ll even give you a direct link: https://musefanpage.com/blog/?p=650#comment-198 I think that’ll work…. if not, you’ll have to find the comment yourself… anyway, I’ll give proof-sih information that makes you think that he’s male.
Oooo, I’ll have to try to find it at the library! Yay something to read that I haven’t read a million times before!
SEVERUS SNAPE?????????? WHERE??? Oh, it’s just Larry G. Never mind.
22- no, it doesn’t prove he’s male, it just proves that Larry Gonick thinks he’s male (and that comic was pointed out in a letter to Muse at one point, I believe).
All, right, as the Muse of Factoids, I’m going to set this Pwt thing straight once and for all… hmmm… wait a minute…. unless it’s an important fact… because I really prefer to keep track of trivial facts and leave the big, honking meaningful ones alone… hmmmmooooo…. let me chew on this a while…. munch…. munch…. munch…. strange… that fact tasted an awful lot like crabgrass… and now I’ve swallowed it and won’t be able to do a thing with it until I’ve finished ruminating and regurgitating… ooooooh well, guess it’s time to stare into space some more…
And you thought a cow’s life was simple?
24 – I do not belive that is so. It is at least more probable that Gonick was simply believing that Pwt was male for the book. But isn’t he simply the writer of a true story? I believe that is the case. And if it is, he was probably told by someone what exactly happened, in which case they would have described Pwt has a “he” or a “she,” or a “he/she/it.” Mr. G shouldn’t have just chosen one of them, (I will/would certainly lose a bit of respect for him if he has/had) so he must have been told “he.” That person might be wrong, of course, which is why I bring up the cartoon of Crraw in the February 2003 issue of Muse. If even Crraw thinks that Pwt is male, (because he’ll sure have the top-seat views on it, seeing as he’s always looking back at that face from up close) it adds to that idea immensely. And don’t give me all of the “Larry Gonick can say whatever he wants in these comics,” because he can’t. He draws what he sees of the Muses. And clearly, Crraw called Pwt male.
I saw it in a bookstore the other day. Naturally, I started jumping up and down screaming, “DAD, LOOK AT THIS!!!!!!!!!!!!! I MUST GET IT!!!!” to which he goes: “Oh, yeah, whatever. Do you have any money with you?” Dumb question. “No. I was thinking you’d WANT to get me a history book.” *pouts* *dad groans*
Well, that didn’t work. I didn’t get it, but I got to look at it!
It was cool, rather, ah, politically incorrect, but that can be a good thing. A very good thing!
One thing I noticed, ahem, there was barely ANYTHING about Jamestown! Now, I’m a bit sensitive about that because I happen to volunteer there, but at least a picture of the settlement would add to the book as a whole. Really!
Okay, I’m off my soapbox now. Thanks for listening.
Overall, I really wish Dad would have bought it for me. Too bad my guilt trip didn’t work.
and in the easter island issue pwt sead help! I’m amunt in revile to the x gene.
29 huh??