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A review by armaget
Feynman by Jim Ottaviani, Leland Myrick
funny
informative
inspiring
reflective
slow-paced
3.5
I think every so often you should pick up a nonfiction book about a truly epic person. Someone whose achievements are just kind of unreasonably excellent- I mean, maybe we can't begin to aspire to have such a life full of knowledge and discovery but reading about it sure is cool.
Richard Feynman seems so cool. I really want to read his books now. At the end of the book they mention they had over a meter of evidence and stuff about Feynman for the book- Now that's epic. I love it when we get to read something that's so beloved and researched by the creators.
On to the actual book- What illustrations! I loved this art style so much and and am definitely gonna be trying to incorporate parts of it into my own drawings. The art is also consistently good and stylistically really aesthetically pleasing. The color palette is... even science-y? It's really good.
Overall a pretty good setup too- for a biography/science textbook of a graphic novel, it read really smoothly. At some parts it got a little dense with page spreads and page spreads of electrons and such, but I literally can't complain because that's the source content.
Lastly, I think I learned some good stuff about learning- or at least figuring it out. There's a part where he figures out hydrogen theory or something. He talks about how he just gives the idea little pokes. I don't know why but- that's just really appealing imagery. I like it.
Richard Feynman seems so cool. I really want to read his books now. At the end of the book they mention they had over a meter of evidence and stuff about Feynman for the book- Now that's epic. I love it when we get to read something that's so beloved and researched by the creators.
On to the actual book- What illustrations! I loved this art style so much and and am definitely gonna be trying to incorporate parts of it into my own drawings. The art is also consistently good and stylistically really aesthetically pleasing. The color palette is... even science-y? It's really good.
Overall a pretty good setup too- for a biography/science textbook of a graphic novel, it read really smoothly. At some parts it got a little dense with page spreads and page spreads of electrons and such, but I literally can't complain because that's the source content.
Lastly, I think I learned some good stuff about learning- or at least figuring it out. There's a part where he figures out hydrogen theory or something. He talks about how he just gives the idea little pokes. I don't know why but- that's just really appealing imagery. I like it.