Washington City Paper: Why will you be in Washington? Ottaviani interrupted his book tour and answered some questions for us prior to his appearance this weekend. In 2008, he wrote Better Zombies Through Physics, a web comic with Sean Bieri for the science fiction publisher, Tor. Robert Oppenheimer, Leo Szilard, and the Political Science of the Atomic Bomb. Knight: Autobiography of an Artist Suspended In Language: Book about Niels Bohr and Fallout: J. His other books include T-Minus: The Race to the Moon Levitation: Physics & Psychology in Service of Deception Wire Mothers: Harry Harlow & the Science of Love Bone Sharps Cowboys & Thunder Lizards Charles R. He followed that with Two-Fisted Science, focusing on women scientists. His first book, Dignifying Science, comprised mini-biographies of scientists. He specializes in writing books about science and scientists, then he commissions an artist to illustrate them. Jim Ottaviani is a former nuclear engineer turned librarian who writes non-fiction comics in his spare time. (Feb.Whoops! There was an error and we couldn't process your subscription. Her NASA training and two space shuttle missions are the focus of the book%E2%80%99s second half, and her character%E2%80%99s colloquial storytelling, humorous observations, and asides are highlights%E2%80%94Wicks and Ottaviani skillfully capture Cleave%E2%80%99s infectious enthusiasm up to the last page. astronaut Mary Cleave, whom the authors interviewed extensively. Tying all of these stories together is the narrative voice, that of former U.S. race to Soviet cosmonaut Valentina Tereshkova%E2%80%99s milestone flight as the first female in space and, finally, to the recruitment and training of American women astronauts, including Sally Ride, in the 1970s.

Lively cartoon panels depict multiple stories, from the Mercury 13 and Women in Space Program, which dead-ends amid the U.S. This latest offering examines the hurdles, triumphs, politics, and prejudices surrounding the first women astronauts. Following on the heels of the first all-female spacewalk in October 2019 comes a timely graphic novel from the pair behind Primates.

Levitation by Jim Ottaviani