"Often what happened is, I would look at a book on my shelves," he said with a laugh, "and remember, 'I read that book,' (so I'd write) like, 20 pages on it, cut that down to two, cut that down to one, cut that down to a panel, (then take) the panel out." Goodwin covers a lot of ground, and it took him more than a decade of writing to boil his subject down to its essentials. Burr ("Kings in Disguise"), whose loose, cartoony style complements and brightens up material that usually puts most of us to sleep. Goodwin was ably abetted by the award-winning artist Dan E. If that sounds like an unlikely topic for a graphic novel, consider Larry Gonick's "The Cartoon History of the Universe" (which Goodwin said was an inspiration). In the process, Goodwin explores the great works, models and philosophies of a lot of economists we've all heard of, but never understood, including Adam Smith ("The Wealth of Nations," 1776), Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels ("The Communist Manifesto," 1848), John Kenneth Galbraith ("The Affluent Society," 1958), Milton Friedman ("Wealth and Freedom," 1962) and Joseph Stiglitz ("Globalization and Its Discontents," 2002). "Economix: How Our Economy Works (and Doesn't Work) in Words and Pictures" (Abrams ComicArts, $19.95) condenses and explains how modern economies work, from roughly the beginning of capitalism to the present. Michael Goodwin hasn't just written a great graphic novel - he's written one that should be required for every school, newsroom and library in the United States.
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