In the beginning was the world, and the world was odd. At least according to Isabel Greenberg, an award-winning graphic novelist, whose depiction of the Earth “after the Big Bang, but long before the ...

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Despite its title, British writer and illustrator Isabel Greenberg's The Encyclopedia of Early Earth is not mere history, with its assiduous accounting of dusty facts, but is instead a compendium of ...

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