Feynman
- ISBN: 978-1596432598
- Retail Price: US$29.99
- Page count: 272 pages
- Publication date: August 30, 2011
Physicist . . . Nobel winner . . . bestselling author . . . safe-cracker.
Feynman tells the story of a great man's life, from his childhood in Long Island to his work on the Manhattan Project and the Challenger disaster. You'll see him help build the first atomic bomb, give a lecture to Einstein, become a safecracker, try not to win a Nobel Prize (but do it anyway), fall in love, learn how to become an artist, and discover the world.
Anyone who ever wanted to know more about quantum electrodynamics, the fine art of the bongo drums, the outrageously obscure nation of Tuva, or the development and popularization of physics in the United States need look no further!
Feynman explores a wonderful life, lived to the fullest.
About the storytellers: Cartoonist Leland Myrick is the Ignatz Award- and Harvey Award-nominated author and illustrator of The Sweet Collection, School Girls, Bright Elegy, and Missouri Boy. His writing and illustrations have appeared in publications as diverse as Dark Horse Comics, GQ Japan, Vogue Russia, Flight, and First Second Books. He lives in Pasadena, California.
All of Jim Ottaviani's books have been nominated for multiple awards, including Eisners & ALA Popular Paperback of the Year, and they also receive critical praise in publications ranging from The Comics Journal to Physics World to Entertainment Weekly to Discover Magazine, and get national broadcast attention in outlets such as NPR's Morning Edition and the CBS Morning Show.Press
"The Ottaviani-Myrick book is the best example of this genre [graphic novels] that I have yet seen." Freeman Dyson in The New York Review of Books
"Ottaviani's third graphic novel about physics is the most personable yet." Booklist
"Ottaviani and Myrick's portrait of the Nobel Prizewinning physicist and general polymath Richard Feynman eschews chronology in favor of rhythm, and it's an approach that suits their subject perfectly." Publishers Weekly
"[T]ackles the bad with the good, leaving the reader delighted by Feynman's exuberant life and staggered at the loss humanity suffered with his death." Graphic Novel Reporter
"[A]n affectionate and inspiring comic biography of the legendary iconoclastic physicist Richard Feynman. ... I'll be shoving Feynman at everyone I can get to read it. " Cory Doctorow, via Boing Boing
...and elsewhere: Oprah.com | Washington Post | A 2012 SB&F Prize Finalist | io9's Best of 2011 | A Horn Book Fanfare 2011 book | The Austin Chronicle | Wired.com/GeekDad | The Miami Herald | Tor.com | Washington City Paper | Salon | an excerpt at NPR's Science Friday | The Washington Independent Review of Books | USA Today | Blogcritics Books | an interview at EarthSky | a podcast interview with EarthSky too! | RadioLab | About.com Physics | NPR: Krulwich Wonders... | Physics Buzz | Library Journal | an excerpt in American Scientist | PLAYBACK:stl | NewScientist | Graphic Eye | Fleen | a selection of the Junior Library Guild | School Library Journal
Preview
Read an excerpt from the book. (Full color, so it's kind of big...but worth it!) American Scientist offers another preview as well! And, there's this...
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Bibliography: Want to know what we read and consulted when creating the book...so you can read more yourself? Then download the full bibliography!
Mistakes(!): D.W. points out that we have an anachronism in the last two panels of page 151: "In the right panel in the middle row, there's the heading 'Caltech (1952)' with Feynman walking in front of the stairway into Lauritsen Laboratory, where his office later was. However, Lauritsen wasn't built until 1969; I'm not sure what was there at that time, though. More seriously, though, in the bottom panel on the page, Feynman is walking in front of the Beckman Institute, which was built in 1989..." Clearly I screwed up in providing Leland reference on this, so thanks for the correction.
