I love the Introducing series (http://www.iconbooks.co.uk/introducingbooks/which.htm). That's my #1. Then there's the Cartoon Guides and Cartoon Histories by Gonick (http://larrygonick.com/html/pub/pub.html). What are some other good non-fiction comic books?

do auto-biographys count as non-fiction???

they're really arent a lot of non-fiction comics.

I'm a big fan of the Pardox Press Big Book of ... series, although they're probably all out of print.

Luke I was looking for books that were about something else, not about comics. Thanks, though

Umm,...hmmm....would Maus count. It won a Pulitzer and is technically an autobiography of Art Speigelman's father just before and during WWII as well as his relationship with him.

I enjoyed Einstein For Beginner that I picked up years ago. There are other "Beginners" titles for Darwin, Marx, Plato and Freud. But don't dismiss Understanding Comics: The Invisible Art too quickly. It's about comics as an art form, evolution, techniques, etc. and I learned a lot, not only about comics but the application to other visual art like paintings, movies, photography.

Edit to add: Comparing the "Beginning" titles to the "Introducing" series, I see that the ones for Einstein, Freud, etc have the same authors. Don't know if it's a direct copy or representation of the same material. At least the amazon links have preview pages for the "Beginning" titles, so you can see if it's the same or not.

BKillgore: They're the same series. They started as "For Beginners," then moved to the Introducing... with the white and colored covers, and have now moved to the nifty black covers.

I'm looking for books that instruct... i.e. math, logic, physics, psychology, sociology, religion, etc.

I'll second Maus here. It certainly is instructive, not in a 'courses' sense, but certainly in 'about life'.

I would urge you to seek these out. Somewhat similar to the Cartoon History books. Very funny and fascinating reading.

Several of them are available on Amazon. My personal favorite is The Big Book of Hoaxes

http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/AS...lance&n=283155

If you are interested in a comic 'story' rather than factual imformation convayed through comics, I would suggest some of Chester Brown's autobiographical work. Infact you can find a lot of terrific comics at Drawn and Quarterly. Right now they are having a special, with almost all of their books and comics greatly reduced.

www.drawnandquarterly.com