The extraordinary life and ideas of the bold author of Common Sense, Rights of Man and The Age of Reason, packed with vivid illustrations, and told using only the genuine verbatim voices of his time. Created by professional cartoonist and graphic novelist Polyp.
Thomas Paine (1737–1809)
Polyp writes: “It’s an outrage that he has been almost totally whitewashed out of popular history. His writings sparked American democratic independence, opposed slavery, and heralded the concept of human rights. He became a member of the revolutionary government of France, but only narrowly escaped the guillotine under Robespierre’s fanatical tyranny. He was denounced and prosecuted for challenging the religious fundamentalism of his era.
“ Staymaker, pirate, astronomer, writer, engineer and philosopher, he is the world’s least known revolutionary freethinking historical hero: although vilified in his day, his bold, progressive ideas and amazingly dramatic life experiences still resonate today…”
The extraordinary life and ideas of the bold author of Common Sense, Rights of Man and The Age of Reason, packed with vivid illustrations, and told using only the genuine verbatim voices of his time. Created by professional cartoonist and graphic novelist Polyp.
Thomas Paine (1737–1809)
Polyp writes: “It’s an outrage that he has been almost totally whitewashed out of popular history. His writings sparked American democratic independence, opposed slavery, and heralded the concept of human rights. He became a member of the revolutionary government of France, but only narrowly escaped the guillotine under Robespierre’s fanatical tyranny. He was denounced and prosecuted for challenging the religious fundamentalism of his era.
“ Staymaker, pirate, astronomer, writer, engineer and philosopher, he is the world’s least known revolutionary freethinking historical hero: although vilified in his day, his bold, progressive ideas and amazingly dramatic life experiences still resonate today…”
The extraordinary life and ideas of the bold author of Common Sense, Rights of Man and The Age of Reason, packed with vivid illustrations, and told using only the genuine verbatim voices of his time. Created by professional cartoonist and graphic novelist Polyp.
Thomas Paine (1737–1809)
Polyp writes: “It’s an outrage that he has been almost totally whitewashed out of popular history. His writings sparked American democratic independence, opposed slavery, and heralded the concept of human rights. He became a member of the revolutionary government of France, but only narrowly escaped the guillotine under Robespierre’s fanatical tyranny. He was denounced and prosecuted for challenging the religious fundamentalism of his era.
“ Staymaker, pirate, astronomer, writer, engineer and philosopher, he is the world’s least known revolutionary freethinking historical hero: although vilified in his day, his bold, progressive ideas and amazingly dramatic life experiences still resonate today…”