Well, actually, it’s titled The Cartoon History of the Modern World, Part 2, see here (where you can view sample pages). But if, like me, you’ve been following this series since Rip Off Press started publishing it in comic-book form in the late '70s, it’s all part of one continuous grand and glorious enterprise! 
I’ve loved this series ever since I read The Cartoon History of the Universe, Part 1, back in the early 90’s in high school. I’m looking forward to this, and it’s already on my Amazon wish list.
Excellent news. I started reading Cartoon History to my son when he was a little kid - maybe 6 or 7; he loves it and so do I.
Cool. “From the Bastille to Baghdad.”
I need to get new copies of some of his books. I’ve absolutely worn out History of the Universe v.1 , and one in a library I worked at wore out when I mentioned to a professor its highly readable account of Gilgamesh (next thing you know those and other pages are being copied constantly (the book not being available for checkout for some reason).
It’s in the stores! I’ve got mine! 
(Please box all spoilers.)
I know what’s on my “next in line” list then. Could you please skip to the end and tell me how far it goes? Obviously Bagdhad, but I’m wondering if it’s Desert Storm or the Present or if Obama’s in it; I’m also anxious to see how it covers WW1 and WW2.
DAMMIT! And I was in the bookstore today! I need to get 4 first anyway.
It covers the invasion/occupation of Iraq but there’s no mention of Obama.
First the complete Bloom County, and now this… a fine time to be broke and on another continent!
I’ve been following this since I came across the first collection in 1982. That first bound collection Volume I was different from the current Volume I in two important ways – it didn’t collect as many issues (a lot of the ones in the current Vol. I didn’t exist in 1982), and he changed several of the panels, sometimes an entire page. Sometimes he changed it because of new theories and discoveries (He changed the “Origin of Life” thing to include the “Open-Faced Sandwich Theory”), and sometimes he evidently changed his mind about the humor he used. (I still miss the Babylonian blasphemer being carried off shouting “Marduk! Marduk! I’d rather worship DONALD Duk!”)
I finally found new, uncollected issues in comic book stores in the later eighties, and have bought all the new collections as they came out. But heck, I’ve got most of his other books – his “Cartoon Guides to…” whatever, which also started coming out in the eighties. And his “Cartoon History of the United States”. Of course I’ll get this new one.
Maybe they’ll collect and publish his “Cartoon Gourmet” strips.
Larry Gonick went to college with my dad and was a family friend when I was a kid. (I suppose they’re still friends, since I somehow know his daughter is doing the same masters degree I am, but at Berkeley.) I’m always amazed that other people know who he is.
Too much action crammed into one volume . . . He should’ve made it two volumes: 1789-1914, 1914-date-of-publication.
But be sure to put the ending in spoiler boxes.