Jim Ottaviani

Jim Ottaviani

  • 3 stars across 5 books

Jim Ottaviani has written nonfiction, science-oriented comics since 1997, notably the #1 New York Times bestseller Feynman and Fallout , which was nominated for an Ignatz Award. He has worked as a nuclear engineer, caddy, programmer, and reference librarian. Primates is his first collaboration with artist Maris Wicks. He lives in Ann Arbor, Michigan.

Maris Wicks lives in Somerville, Massachusetts. She has used her opposable thumbs to draw comics for Adhouse Books, Tugboat Press, and Spongebob Comics and has written stories for Image and DC Comics. When Maris is not drawing comics, she can be found prepping slides for her collection of vintage microscopes. She is an avid tool user and is particularly fond of bananas.

19th May 2009

T-Minus: The Race to the Moon

Graphic fictionalized retelling of the moon landing.In T-Minus the exciting story of two world superpowers racing to lan... MoreT-Minus: The Race to the Moon

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1st August 2012

District Comics: An Unconventional History of Washington, DC

District Comics is a graphic anthology featuring lesser-known stories about Washington, DC, from its earliest days as a ... MoreDistrict Comics: An Unconventional History of Washington, DC

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1st February 2020

Astronauts: Women on the Final Frontier

America may have put the first man on the moon, but it was the Soviet space program that made Valentina Tereshkova the f... MoreAstronauts: Women on the Final Frontier

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20th October 2009

Two-Fisted Science

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15th April 2015

Primates

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    T-Minus: The Race to the Moon

    This is a graphic novel about the space race. There's lots of facts and detail in the story, but I didn't find it very gripping. The pictures are all ...

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