The Cartoon History of the Modern World #2

The Cartoon History of the Modern World — HarperCollins

Issue: #2

“From the Bastille to Baghdad,” The Cartoon History of the Modern World Part II is the conclusion (for the moment) of Larry Gonick’s award-winning and bestselling annals of humankind presented in graphic novel form. Picking up after the American Revolution, where Part I left off, Part II opens with the Enlightenment and rolls across Napoleon, the fall of the Ottoman Empire, World War I and II, and...

First appearances: Leopold II of Belgium, Ferdinand VII of Spain, Cecil Rhodes, Charles X of France, Friedrich Engels, Sukarno, José de San Martín, Emperor Meiji, Enver Pasha

Creators: Larry Gonick

Characters: Ayatollah Khomeini, John F. Kennedy, Abraham Lincoln, Richard Nixon, Adolf Hitler, Albert Einstein, George W. Bush, Horatio Nelson, Sigmund Freud, Joséphine de Beauharnais, Leopold II of Belgium, Ferdinand VII of Spain, Kim Il-sung, Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, Cecil Rhodes, Charles X of France, Tokugawa Yoshinobu, Friedrich Engels, Sukarno, José de San Martín