No Joking: Feynman Is Brilliant

I have a confession: I did not really know much about Richard Feynman. Well, ok, I knew a little role to Los Alamos from a history class and I knew little about his personality and unconventional love to play tricks, but I had not read or saw one of his lectures, or read every biography until recently.

Last month, the first books published second Feynman, a comics biography of the "smartest man in the world" written by Jim Ottaviani and illustrated by Leland Myrick. Ottaviani is no stranger to this type of non-fiction comics. He wrote a couple of comics based on science such as T-Minus: The Race to the Moon, a comic book biography of Niels Bohr, and Fallout, a book I read years on manufacturing the atomic bomb.

Feynman is primarily a chronological biography of Feynman, after both their professional and private life. Switch back and forth a bit ', but most of it is presented in order of time in college working in the bomb to win the Nobel Prize for his work in quantum electrodynamics (QED). There are stories of her younger sister, Joanna, who was discouraged to go to their parents, but I ended up science scientist anyway. When we follow Feynman at Los Alamos, the story does not focus on the actual work he has done, but also take advantage of his safecracking, and his frustration is directed at a specific type of military solution to the problem.

The book is brilliantly written. Ottaviani Feynman makes the times, sometimes with comic VoiceOver, and sometimes to transmit information through interviews with Feynman's having with other people. Why is comic, Myrick will be able to make free graphics, from time to time at the top of Feynman's thoughts on reality, says visual effects Beautiful Mind. There are also some parts of QED that show, and secular terms short, what Feynman was awarded the work around. These were a series of lectures in New Zealand, attempts to explain his work, he is a scientist friend Alix. All have been carefully studied, and at the end of Ottaviani offers long list of sources to show where he got his information, and give the reader a starting point for further discussion of Feynman.

The artwork looks like Myrick established and is fun to watch. They quickly get used to Feynman crooked smile and tousled hair. No detail is enough to evoke the scene, but it will not photorealistic or action Marvel dynamic style. Instead, you get a style that seems perfectly suited for connecting a biography: it is true that you know what events are real, but abstract enough to not assume that everything is word for word, either.

If you are a fan of Feynman, or, like me, only to dip their fingers in the subject, Feynman was an excellent portrait of a fascinating man. When you're reading this, I am very interested to follow some of Feynman's own writings, even if my body is a bit 'rusty.

You can pick Feynman Amazon or directly from MacMillan (parent company of First Second). You can also see flashes of some of the inside pages of the site MacMillan. Finally, here's a short video trailer for the book that shows some pictures of the book, put the audio plays drums Feynman:

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