A different kind of cell

November 29th, 2006

Continuing the series of Christmas gifts for the science punks in your life, I thought I’d throw the spotlight on some awesome looking science-themed graphic novels. First up is the recently published Five Fists of Science by Matt Fraction, featuring Mark Twain and Nikola Tesla in a race to save mankind from an evil science cabal headed by Thomas Edison.

On a completely unrelated note, we have Two-Fisted Science by Jim Ottaviani. Promising something more of an Earthbound discussion of science, the novel contains a series of stories based on real life occurrences from the lives of the scientists such as Galileo, Feynman, Einstein, Newton, Bohr, and Heisenberg.

Finally, and perhaps my favourite of the bunch, is Dignifying Science, also by Jim Ottaviani and also featuring work by a collaboration of artists. Dignifying Science features true stories about women scientists including Marie Curie, Emmy Noether, Lise Meitner, Rosalind Franklin, Barbara McClintock, Birute Galdikas, and one of my favourite scientists of all time - burlesque queen, pin-up and mathematical genius Hedy Lamarr. If you’d like to impress upon your daughter/sister/neice that science isn’t just for boys, this is the one for you.

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