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Two-Fisted Science
by James S. Ottaviani, Donna Barr, Guy Davis, Bernie Mireault, Colleen Doran, Steve Lieber, Rob Walton
from G.T. Labs

Customer Reviews:

• Avg. Customer Rating: 4.0 / 5.0

• I may be biased...but...
  I'm not sure if it is entirely fair for me to give a review of this book, since I was one of the illustrators who worked on it BUT my contribution is quite small and I can at least give you an honest assessment of the rest of the project. I have rarely been prouder to be a part of a graphic novel project. I have read all of Ottaviani's GN's about the lives of scientists (including the ones I did not work on) and I find them riveting. I do not agree with the earlier reviewer that there is any offensive... more info

• Gee, I found this book particularly appropriate and helpful
  In response to a previous review ("Inappropriate and unhelpful"):
  1. Swear words? What swear words? There are none in my copy.
  2. I've seen this book in young adult and adult sections of libraries and bookstores. It's perfectly appropriate for both sections. And I've seen the author speak to an audience of kids about his books and they gobbled it up.
  3. Comics are not required to be funny. Was "Maus" by Art Spiegelman funny?
  4. It's easy to find something to be offended by in just about... more info

• Inappropriate and unhelpful
  Written in cartoon format, I thought this book would be a lighter approach to a straight, dry, biography of scientists. However, it is written more like a series of political cartoons than cartoons for kids. The cartoons are barely understandable if the biography of the scientist is not already known, so using it as an initial reading is impossible. Further, some content is offensive. On the second page of cartoons, a scientist is walking along a bridge, thinking, when someone mistakenly believes he is... more info

• Listen in to some our greatest oddball minds . . .
  All the stories in this collection of "graphic fiction" were written by Ottaviani, but the artwork was supplied by ten artists, including Bernie Mireault and Scott Saavedra. The stories are based on real events (reportedly real, anyway) about Einstein, Russell, Bohr, Heisenberg, and others - and especially Richard Feynman, who was not only one of 20th century physics's major minds but an amateur locksmith, talented musician, social philosopher, and world-class storyteller as well. Some, like "turtles all... more info

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