Hawking (2019)

A cosmology primer wrapped around a life. The Feynman team, Jim Ottaviani and Leland Myrick, reunited in 2019 for Stephen Hawking, and the book is at its best when it walks through what he actually worked on: the mathematics of white dwarf stars, the expanding universe and black holes. The cartoon style keeps things light without blunting the explanations, so if A Brief History of Time defeated you, this is a gentler way in. Read it after Feynman to see the same creators tackle a scientist whose work is much harder to picture.