Comic Book Story of Beer : A Chronicle of the World's Favorite Beverage from 7000 Bc to Today's Craft Brewing Revolution

A New York Instances Greatest Vendor A full-color, lushly illustrated graphic novel that recounts the many-layered previous and current of beer by means of dynamic pairings of images and meticulously researched perception into the historical past of the world’s favourite brew. The Historical past of Beer Involves Life!

We drink it. We like it. However how a lot do we actually find out about beer? Ranging from round 7000 BC, beer has emerged as a significant factor driving humankind’s improvement, a job it has continued to play by means of at this time’s craft brewing explosion. With The Comedian E-book Story of Beer, the first-ever nonfiction graphic novel targeted on this most favored beverage, you possibly can comply with alongside from the very starting, as authors Jonathan Hennessey and Mike Smith staff up with illustrator Aaron McConnell to current the important thing figures, occasions, and, sure, beers that formed and ceaselessly made historical past. No boring, previous historic textual content right here, McConnell’s versatile artwork type–shifting from period-accurate renderings to cartoony diagrams to historic caricatures and again–finds an equal and efficient accomplice within the pithy, informative textual content of Hennessey and Smith offered in captions and phrase balloons on every web page. The tip result’s a filling combination of phrases and footage positive to please the beer aficionado and comics geek alike.