Two-Fisted Science (1997)

Where Jim Ottaviani's science comics began. He self-published this anthology of true stories from the history of science in 1997, and it won a Xeric Award and an Eisner nomination; Feynman, Galileo, Niels Bohr and Werner Heisenberg all turn up, alongside a cosmologist and several mathematicians. Because each short piece has a different artist, among them Gene Colan, Colleen Doran, Paul Chadwick and Steve Lieber, it doubles as a sampler of styles, and you can read one story on a commute. Some pieces are funny, some serious, and the best are both. It is the natural next stop for anyone who finished Feynman wanting more.