The Big Book of Weirdos: True Tales Of The World's Kookiest Crackpots & Visionaries (Factoid Books)

From Dostoyevsky to Dali, if the history of humankind teaches us anything, it's that the most brilliant individuals of any era were often the most peculiar as well. In fact, they were positively weird . Presented in a uniquely engaging illustrated format, the ''alternative lifestyles'' of 67 crackpots and visionaries have been graphically interpreted by an equal number of today's most popular comic artists. /Carl Posey They made remarkable contributions to fields from art and literature to science and entertainment. But ike so many other great geniuses, they were weirdos. The stories of dozens of people who we remember for their brilliance but who were also really strange are told here by Carl Posey and drawn by dozens of well known carto Provides comic strip profiles of such original individuals as Ivan the Terrible, Adolf Hitler, Thomas Edison, and flagpole-sitter Shipwreck Kelly Comic strip biographies of strange and eccentric people