(Young gents out there: the right kind of lady loves a literate man.) I was one of two people to get an A the other being a girl that I was courting and with whom I was sharing a lot of that great cartoon history. In a college World History course, I recognized the inferior quality of the assigned texts, and used TCHOTU I & II as my source material for exams. The first book in this series was edited by Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis (she saved it from the reject pile at Doubleday) and the work was praised by Carl Sagan among others. Now, for those of you that are beginning to smirk at the idea of me reading "comic books" as a teenager and grown adult, I will kindly ask you to kiss my Scots-Irish ass. That was the first step in a 20-year journey that ended last week. He asked for it for Christmas, and received it. In the fall of 1990 a 14-year old Benito read about something called The Cartoon History of the Universe in the science magazine Discover.
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