The diagrams and flow charts are wonderfully intuitive, even when tackling difficult ideas, and the visuals work well in tandem with the text. Though the illustrations are simple black-and-white cartoons without much technical detail, they are suited to the book and are very effective at conveying ideas. Goodwin’s writing is clear, concise and entertaining, but it’s a lot of information to absorb. There is a lot of text and a huge amount of information on each page, so I found it most comfortable to limit myself to one chapter in a sitting and wait awhile for the information to sink in before starting the next chapter.Ī major highlight of “Economix” is the artwork by Dan E. Since it covers so much history in only 300 pages, “Economix” is very dense, albeit not bloated or incomprehensible.
Thinkers from Karl Marx to Milton Friedman appear as characters, along with economic movers and shakers like Andrew Carnegie, Otto von Bismarck and Joseph Stalin. “Economix” is a crash course in the history of the economy and the study of economics, beginning with Adam Smith and ending with the current credit crunch. Artists in the medium have even begun exploring non-fiction with such hits as “Persepolis,” “Blankets” and now “Economix: How and Why Our Economy Works (and Doesn’t Work) in Words and Pictures,” written by Michael Goodwin and illustrated by Dan E. One of the best things about comics in the 21st century is that non-superhero comics are rising to commercial success alongside mainstream superhero offerings from DC and Marvel.
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