I liked Rick Geary's stuff but I didn't know he'd done all the stuff he's done I'm looking him up now and thinking I have to read some of his pieces. I'm also a big fan of Scott McCloud's work. Michael: Larry Gonick was the big one he was half the reason I loved history in the first place.
Lance: Who were influential comics/authors in the creation of your work? Were you channeling Scott McCloud? Larry Gonick? Rick Geary? I'll read anything by Larry Gonick, by Guy Delisle, by Joe Sacco, by Harvey Pekar, I could go on. Michael: I do I mostly prefer nonfiction comics, but then I mostly read nonfiction in general. Lance: Do you read comics? Which ones? Favorites? That especially mattered because the book was about a really intimidating subject I was trying to reach the sorts of people who are scared away from the topic normally. I knew that comics are just plain more accessible and memorable. Michael: Well, I grew up in a household where comics were taken seriously, even before Maus (my stepfather is the cartoonist Rick Meyerowitz). Lance: Why choose comics to communicate the information? I would save his books to read as a treat for when my eyes were glazing over from reading other economists. In another sense, my favorite would be the 19th-century social thinker Henry George, just because he was so much fun to read-clear, moral, and lively. Not that he was right about everything, but he's the only economist who really tried to nail down the modern corporate economy the way Smith nailed down the economy of his day.
Smith is up there, but I'd say that my favorite economist is probably John Kenneth Galbraith. Lance: So did Smith end up your favorite economist or is there another? (And did you ever imagine you'd be laying claim to a favorite 'economist'?) As I read him and others, I realized that there was a whole story there that nobody was really telling. He includes everything from Carthaginian history to the price of kelp to the beauty of Irish prostitutes in London. I thought I'd known what Smith said-free markets rah rah rah-but he was so much richer than that. So I went back to the original sources, especially Adam Smith. But when I looked at economic textbooks, the things I was interested in either weren't there, or they were stuck in sidebars without any context. History keeps coming back to the same economic patterns, and I thought I should understand them. Michael: Really, it was my interest in history. Lance: What inspired the idea for the book? In this post, I'll interview the author, Michael Goodwin and follow up with the artist, Dan E. I was so excited about the experience, I look to contact the author and artist to see if they would let me interview them and they kindly agreed. Burr's Economix: How Our Economy Works (And Doesn't Work) In Words and Pictures explained economics in a way that made sense-no longer grounded in simple theory but in the actual history through which they developed. My review of it one-sentence review of it on Facebook was clear and simple: "one of the most coherent texts on economics ever (probably cause it's a comic book!)." Michael Goodwin & Dan E.
About two weeks ago, I put finished an awesome book.
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