Jim Ottaviani Books

In the graphic novel Astronauts: Women on the Final Frontier, Jim Ottaviani and illustrator Maris Wicks capture the great humor and incredible drive of Mary Cleave, Valentina Tereshkova, and the first women in space. The U.S. may have put the first man on the moon, but it was the Soviet space program that made Valentina Tereshkova the first woman in space. It took years to catch up, but soon NASA’s first female astronauts were racing past milestones of their own. The trail-blazing women of Group 9, NASA’s first mixed gender class, had the challenging task of convincing the powers that be that a woman’s place is in space, but they discovered that NASA had plenty to learn about how to make space travel possible for everyone.

In Einstein, writer Jim Ottaviani and artist Jerel Dye take us behind the veneer of Einstein's celebrity, painting a complex and intimate portrait of the world's most well-known scientist.

Following their New York Times-bestselling graphic novel Feynman, Jim Ottaviani and Leland Myrick deliver a gripping biography of Stephen Hawking, one of the most important scientists of our time. From his early days at the St Albans School and Oxford, Stephen Hawking’s brilliance and good humor were obvious to everyone he met. A lively and popular young man, it’s no surprise that he would later rise to celebrity status. At twenty-one he was diagnosed with ALS, a degenerative neuromuscular disease. Though the disease weakened his muscles and limited his ability to move and speak, it did nothing to limit his mind. He went on to do groundbreaking work in cosmology and theoretical physics for decades after being told he had only a few years to live. He brought his intimate understanding of the universe to the public in his 1988 bestseller, A Brief History of Time. Soon after, he added pop-culture icon to his accomplishments by playing himself on shows like Star Trek, The Simpsons, and The Big Bang Theory, and becoming an outspoken advocate for disability rights. In Hawking, writer Jim Ottaviani and artist Leland Myrick have crafted an intricate portrait of the great thinker, the public figure, and the man behind both identities.

Jim Ottaviani and Leland Purvis show Turing to be an eccentric, persecuted genius and a groundbreaking theoretician whose seminal work still plays a role in the science and telecommunication systems that fuel our modern world.

DAS LEBEN VON ALBERT EINSTEIN ALS PACKENDE GRAPHIC NOVEL Wenn man an ALBERT EINSTEIN denkt, kommt vielen von uns das berühmte Foto in den Sinn, das ihn mit den wirren Haaren und herausgestreckter Zunge zeigt. Das Bild prägt bis heute den Typus des „zerstreuten Professors“. In Teilen trifft das auch auf den vielleicht genialsten Wissenschaftler aller Zeiten zu: Von Albert Einstein, dem Mann, der mit e = mc² das Universum auf den Kopf gestellt hat, ist bekannt, dass er bisweilen so in seine Gedankenwelt vertieft war, dass er alles um sich herum vergaß, sogar das Essen. Außerdem hatte er einen ganz besonderen Humor, hinterfragte alles und war zeitlebens unangepasst. Das brachte das 1879 geborene Genie immer wieder auch in Schwierigkeiten. Doch am Ende blieb mit der Relativitätstheorie ein Vermächtnis, das unsere Welt verändert hat und noch immer verändert. Diese packende Graphic Novel fasst das Leben von Albert Einstein in einer grandiosen Geschichte und wundervollen Bildern zusammen und zeigt authentisch nicht nur den genialen Physiker und dessen Errungenschaften, sondern auch den Menschen, den Revolutionär … und natürlich auch den zerstreuten Professor.