Brief Histories of Everyday Objects #1

Brief Histories of Everyday Objects — Picador

Issue: #1

In the tradition of A Cartoon History of the Universe and, most recent, Randall Munroe's What If? comes Brief Histories of Everyday Objects, an intrepid, graphic tour through the unusual stories behind the creation of some of the overlooked items that surround us in our daily lives. Chapters introduce readers to a cast of inventors whose ideas led to the ballpoint pen riots, cowboy wars, and reall...

First appearances: Ernestine Gilbreth Carey, Ermal C. Fraze, Andy Warner, Frank Bunker Gilbreth Jr., Earl Tupper, John Joseph Merlin, Jan Ernst Matzeliger, Frederic Tudor, Ed Lowe, Constantin Fahlberg, Brownie Wise, Amanda Jones, Annie Turnbo Malone, Hubert Cecil Booth, Melitta Bentz, Cai Lun, Johan Vaaler, James M. Spangler, Marc Isambard Brunel, George de Mestral, Laura Scudder, Momofuku Ando, William Kitchiner, Sen no Rikyū, William Russell Grace, Walter Hunt, Violette Morris, Madam C. J. Walker, Michael Phelan, King C. Gillette, William Painter, Frank Bunker Gilbreth, Robert Dudley, 1st Earl of Leicester, Pedro Flores, Lillian Moller Gilbreth, Theodore Hook, Charles Darrow, Garrett Morgan, Joseph Glidden, László Bíró, Lizzie Magie, Donald F. Duncan Sr., Scott Nearing, John Harington, George S. Parker, Swami Vivekananda, Arthur Fry, John Wesley Hyatt, Catherine of Braganza

Creators: Andy Warner

Characters: Theodore Roosevelt, Richard Nixon, Adolf Hitler, God, Leizu, Charles II, Steve Martin, Justinian I, Charles I, Liu Bang, H. L. Mencken, Percy Spencer, W. E. B. Du Bois, Queen Victoria, Alexander The Great, Napoleon Bonaparte, Genghis Khan, Andrew Jackson, Mark Twain, Herbert Hoover