If you like Chester the Crab’s series, try these other comics that discuss history. You can find the following titles at your local bookstore, on Amazon.com or in your local comic book shop (found in the telephone directory yellow pages under “comic”).<\/p>\n
What if the Fantastic Four hit a weird storm in the Atlantic instead of cosmic rays in space? This series of stories is great alternative history, putting Peter Parker, Tony Stark and other characters you recognize into Elizabethan lives.<\/p>\n
This look at the way people lived in early Virginia even has some 3-D pages!<\/p>\n
Sketchy drawings don’t show much historical detail but book is small for small hands.<\/p>\n
Wording is stiff and coloring is as flat and silly as a 1950s comic. But these cover a lot.<\/p>\n
Too wordy, but these books do have good historical detail for any Civil War buffs.<\/p>\n
See if you can find Horton the elephant or Yertle the Turtle in his newspaper cartoons.<\/p>\n
These comix just take images from the TV cartoon of the Trio. Simple but fun.<\/p>\n
Gonick’s books have underground style and humor and cover a lot of ground quickly.<\/p>\n
More chapter books than a comic, but comic illustrations get the history to the funny bone<\/p>\n
Fun! MAJOR POINTS for using the real words of a journal written by Dutch trader in 1634!!<\/p>\n
Not a modern manga but a historic document of drawings by a real immigrant to U.S.<\/p>\n
Many 1- or 2-page essays by cartoonists about the terrorist attacks. Moving and solemn.<\/p>\n
You get one panel on Boston Tea Party or Texas founding, but there is good humor.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
More fun with Comics! If you like Chester the Crab’s series, try these other comics that discuss history. You can find the following titles at your local bookstore, on Amazon.com or in your local comic book shop (found in the … Continue reading