Marx, Freud, Einstein: Heroes of the Mind

Author(s): Corinne Maier

Graphic Novels

Brought together for the first time, this collection of witty graphic biographies delves into the minds of three of the most controversial, outspoken, and important thinkers from the 19th and 20th centuries.


Through Anne Simon's irreverent illustrative comics style and Corinne Maier's witty, researched writing, readers can join the fight against capitalism with Karl Marx, meet the father of psychoanalysis Sigmund Freud, and discover the fundamentals of physics with Albert Einstein. Explore complex scientific, psychological and political ideas in a wryly intelligent graphic novel format!


Product Information

Anne Simon was born in 1980 in France. She studied in the Beaux-Arts in Angouleme, and then in the Ecole Nationale Superieure des Arts Decoratifs in Paris, one of the most prestigious art schools in France. In 2004, she received the "New Talent" prize at the Angouleme festival, and she released her first comic book "Persephone in the Underworld" in 2006.


Corinne Maier is a French non-fiction writer, economist, psychoanalyst and historian, who has published twenty books in her native country (essays, social critique, humor, comics...). Some of them have been translated into several languages, including the international best-sellers "Hello Laziness" (Pantheon, USA) and "No Kids" (McLelland & Stewart, Canada). She is also the author of three graphic biographies, "Freud," "Marx" and "Einstein," in collaboration with Anne Simon, published in English by Nobrow.

General Fields

  • : 9781910620311
  • : Nobrow Ltd
  • : Nobrow Ltd
  • : June 2017
  • : February 2017
  • : books

Special Fields

  • : Corinne Maier
  • : Paperback
  • : Anne Simon