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Neil deGrasse Tyson’s most astounding fact adapted as a comic

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We’ve already seen a video interpretation of physicist Neil deGrasse Tyson’s most astounding fact about the universe. Cartoonist Gavin Aung Than offers his graphic version of the famous quote, illustrating it in a single, beautiful webcomic.

https://gizmodo.com/neil-degrasse-tyson-shares-the-most-astounding-fact-abo-5890874

The beginning of Than’s comic is below, you can see the whole thing at his webcomic Zen Pencils. In Zen Pencils, Than takes various inspirational quotes and illustrates comics around them. This one, inspired in part by the film The Tree of Life has a similar tone to the video version of the quote we’ve seen before. But many of Than interpretations are less expected. He uses the Bene Gesserit “Litany Against Fear” from Frank Herbert’s Dune as the text for a story about escaping an abusive relationship. He also does charming turns with quotes from Ayn Rand, Carl Sagan, and Apollo 14 astronaut Edgar Mitchell.

Neil deGrasse Tyson – The Most Astounding Fact [Zen Pencils via Bad Astronomy]

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