For those who've not yet come across Yoram Bauman, the Stand-Up Economist, you have a treat in store. Now he's going beyond entertaining to educating with the publication of volume 1 (on microeconomics) of The Cartoon Guide to Economics. It's good fun and graphic books certainly seem to work well with young people, if my own sons are anything to go by. (I tried Logicomix about Russell and Frege on my eldest son this Christmas, and he liked it.)

Here's the best quote on the back cover: “Had Art Spiegelman and John Maynard Keynes collaborated on a comic book on economics, they could only have dreamed of coming up with something this good.” —Jonathan A. Shayne, a.k.a. Merle Hazard, country singer and founder of Shayne & Co., LLC

Bauman says a number of translations are in the works, including simplified Chinese: "For the simplified Chinese version, I’ve suggested as a working title The Cartoon Introduction to Socialism With Chineses Characteristics."