His step-father is Rick Meyerowitz, once a major cartoonist for National Lampoon, so Goodwin grew up around comics. Before long he realized he had quite a story to tell – one that hadn’t been told in comics form before.Īnd that’s a medium that came naturally to Goodwin.
So around 2002 Goodwin began immersing himself in the subject. And at some point, I thought ‘OK, I have to understand more about the economy.’ It just keeps on coming up – the price of bread in revolutions, and everything.” “I’m a history nut,” he said, “and if you learn enough history, history keeps coming back to economic patterns. Goodwin, a freelance writer, came to write the book from an honest interest in the subject. It’s essentially a history of capitalism from roughly the system’s beginnings to the present, along the lines of Larry Gonick’s The Cartoon History of the Universe – which, Goodwin told CBG in a phone interview, was an inspiration. The first is Economix: How Our Economy Works (and Doesn’t Work) in Words and Pictures (Abrams ComicArts, $19.95), by writer Michael Goodwin and artist Dan E. Both are well worth the time of comics fans.
Two excellent books involving comics and economics have arrived in time for this all-review issue of CBG one is a book about general economics in comics form, another is about comics economics in prose. Two viewpoints on the financial aspects of the hobby
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