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GovDocs Comics

12.07.2006

I'm researching government comics in any form, digital or print--if you know of any, please let me know (geekyartistlibrarian AT gmail.com). I don't know if this will turn into a digital collection, a presentation, or an article, but it combines three of my interests in one. At this point, I'm just gathering information on all the examples I can find, digital and in print. The really rough list of titles appears below; for a nicer-looking and more detailed finding aid, see my GovDoc Comics Finding Aid.

(my heartfelt thanks to those who have donated titles to this list of comics!)

Laura Sare's GovDovs Comics Page

Laura Sare, Documents Librarian, West Texas A&M University

http://www.defenselink.mil/News/NewsArticle.aspx?ID=2321

Sprocket Man

Dr. Seuss's malaria publication

http://www.libraries.rutgers.edu/rul/news/04/04_comics.shtml

Social Security

http://www.ssa.gov/history/comic1.html

http://www.disabilitymuseum.org/lib/stills/1607card.htm

9/11 Report

http://books.monstersandcritics.com/features/article_1199506.php/Graphic_version_of_9_11_report_a_US_book_hit

http://www.pentagonresearch.com/comic.html

http://www.fhsu.edu/forsyth_lib/flblog/?p=27

Gov Comics at their not-so-best

A - Zap plus more Oddball Comics

The Story Of Checks; Federal Reserve Bank

JFK comic (1961)

Grenada (CIA-produced comic book)

Library of Congress guide to finding comics

American Women: Comic Books

Comic Book Collection

Will Eisner and the "American Visual Corporation" (comic manuals for government)

Supercrat(?), appeared on the inside back covers of State Magazine (S 1.118) during the early to mid 1990s. Don't have any at my library to confirm name. He ever fought Saddam during Gulf War I with pencils and invoices. (thanks to Daniel Cornwall)

Protocol Boy - Appeared on the inside back cover of the one State Magazine we do have - S 1.118:427 (July/August 1999) (thanks to Daniel Cornwall)

From my home state of Alaska we have "The Invisible O" also known as the Sixth Report of the Ombudsman 1980 State of Alaska. The first ten pages of the report chronicle the efforts of heroes such as the Invisible O, Captain Adminstration and Wonder Person against villans such as Cratman, Flackman and Blind Referral. (thanks to Daniel Cornwall)

Fantastic tidal datums / by an obscure physical oceanographer entombed in the Ocean (Tides) and Lake Levels Branch of the Physical Oceanography Division of the Office of Ocean and Earth Sciences of the National Ocean Service of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration of the U.S. Dept. of Commerce: "Dept. of Commerce?": "Yes, Commerce!" (thanks to John)

While a different version of this comic book was cataloged on OCLC record #19527827, the PDF version available from

http://tidesandcurrents.noaa.gov/publications/fantastic_tidal_datums.pdf is still at large, a fugitive from the FDLP. (thanks to John)

While it may not look very official, this 1988 publication has been cited in other NOAA publications and is included in a list of PDF publications at http://tidesandcurrents.noaa.gov/pub.html (thanks to John)

Sinclair Library's Government Documents Art and Design exhibit features a cover scan of one of my personal favorites,

D 101.22:20-13

Invisible Weapon,

a gorgeous War Department piece promoting the lend-lease programs of World War II. (thanks to infozo)

The Navy Aviation Training Division has a number of documents titled _Something Sense_ that are both funny and well illustrated. Right now, I've got

D 202.2:SH 2

Shark sense

on my desk... and I know what to do if my plane goes down over the ocean and I need to fend off the circling sharks.

(thanks to infozo)

The seventies are always good for a laugh.

HE 20.3002:B 73/2

Discovering yourself in the brain age