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Larry Gonick, Winner of the 1999 Inkpot Award for Excellence in Cartooning, is a Professional Cartoonist and Author of the Cartoon History of the Universe Series, among other Illustrated Books. He Graduated from Harvard College with a Summa Cum Laude Degree in Mathematics and Phi Beta Kappa Honors. After Earning a Master's Degree in Mathematics from Harvard University, He Left Academia to Pursue Nonfiction Cartooning Full Time. Gonick Received Knight Science Journalism Fellowships at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1994 and 1995. He was also a 2000 Journalism Fellow at the Mathematical Sciences Research Institute in Berkeley. The Cartoon History of the Universe Series was Named Among the Top 100 Comic Books of the Twentieth Century by the Authoritative Fan Magazine the Comics Journal, Published by Fantagraphics Books of Seattle. The Series's CD-ROM Received the Eddie (Macuser Editor's Choice) Award as Best "Edutainment" Product of 1994.Gonick, Larry is the author of 'Cartoon History of the Universe III From the Rise of Arabia to the Renaissance', published 2002 under ISBN 9780393324037 and ISBN 0393324036.
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