{"id":42066,"date":"2024-04-15T08:00:00","date_gmt":"2024-04-15T15:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/?p=42066"},"modified":"2024-04-02T13:18:30","modified_gmt":"2024-04-02T20:18:30","slug":"cartoon-history-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/cartoon-history-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Cartoon History"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Once a week we\u2019ll send out a page from Cool Tools: A Catalog of Possibilities. The tools might be outdated or obsolete, and the links to them may or may not work. We present these vintage recommendations as is because\u00a0the possibilities they inspire are new.\u00a0<em><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/toolsforpossibilities.substack.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Sign up here<\/a>\u00a0to get Tools for Possibilities a week early in your inbox.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\"\/>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image is-resized\"><a href=\"https:\/\/substackcdn.com\/image\/fetch\/f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep\/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F2de124d1-7e6c-424a-8f28-b81abee379d7_1155x1500.jpeg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/substackcdn.com\/image\/fetch\/w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep\/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F2de124d1-7e6c-424a-8f28-b81abee379d7_1155x1500.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"416\" height=\"540\"\/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<h3><strong>Flippant, but painless, world history<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/geni.us\/FS0U\">Cartoon History of the Universe (Volumes 1, 2, 3)<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Larry Gonick, the over-educated cartoonist, continues his series of book-length comic-strips that illustrate ancient history. This new 300-page installment covers the rise of Arabia and the role of \u201cOrientals\u201d in crafting the culture we have today. In Gonick\u2019s hands history is a hoot, and very much about ideas. I particularly savor this latest volume because by moving the center of the universe somewhere east of Europe \u2014 delving into Islam, Africa and East Asia \u2014 Gonick\u2019s cartoons can remedy the ignorance and arrogance of the west. Laugh your way to enlightenment! \u2014&nbsp;<em>KK<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image is-resized\"><a href=\"https:\/\/substackcdn.com\/image\/fetch\/f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep\/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fe967065f-de7e-48da-a038-c7f4c24eee29_924x1200.jpeg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/substackcdn.com\/image\/fetch\/w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep\/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fe967065f-de7e-48da-a038-c7f4c24eee29_924x1200.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"323\" height=\"419\"\/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image is-resized\"><a href=\"https:\/\/substackcdn.com\/image\/fetch\/f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep\/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fe9f8b837-5dda-4845-a620-c645b80d0918_882x1200.jpeg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/substackcdn.com\/image\/fetch\/w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep\/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fe9f8b837-5dda-4845-a620-c645b80d0918_882x1200.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"304\" height=\"413\"\/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/substackcdn.com\/image\/fetch\/w_720,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep\/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F96ebecc0-9f3c-4188-91ac-4d2f616dabd4_1226x1600.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"327\" height=\"426\"\/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tools for Possibilities: issue no. 82<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13684,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0},"categories":[2387],"tags":[2388],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42066"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/13684"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=42066"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42066\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":42067,"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42066\/revisions\/42067"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=42066"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=42066"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=42066"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}