Lucky Safety Cards

Originally a set of 40 cards, distributed in New York newspapers. Thanks to Bert Hansen for giving me most of these.

Nail gun safety comic

Friend of ComicsDC Nick Thorkelson has done the art for a government safety comic. Here's Nick:

Friends & colleagues:

My nail gun safety comic just went online. You can take a look by downloading a PDF from either of the links below or, if you wait a while, by ordering the print version from CDC/NIOSH. Many thanks to Jim Albers of NIOSH who put this together, and who was very patient with me in the course of a long and complex development process. 

English
http://www.cdc.gov/niosh/docs/2013-149

Spanish
http://www.cdc.gov/spanish/niosh/docs/2013-149_sp/

Nick Thorkelson

Graphic Design & Cartoons

15 Channel Center Street, #218

Boston, MA 02210

nthork@nickthorkelson.com

www.nickthorkelson.com

Kerry G. Johnson's Spectra #4 has been completed

Following up on yesterday's link to an interview with him,Kerry G. Johnson tells ComicsDC about some local comic book work he's done -

Here is a recent project that I worked on for PhysicsCentral.com.

I'm the Art Director at the American Physical Society (APS Physics), the parent company of PhysicsCentral. Headquarters in College Park, MD (not on campus)

I recently illustrated the 4th installment of our comic book series, PhysicsQuest: Spectra #4: Spectra Heats Up! (written by Dr. Rebecca Thompson, illustrated by Kerry G. Johnson)

The Spectra series follows the adventures of a teen girl that discovers she has the powers of a laser. Spectra is also the official mascot of the 2010 LaserFest: Celebrating 50 Years of Laser Innovation.

PhysicsQuest is a set of four activities designed to engage middle school students in scientific inquiry. The 2011-2012 activities are linked together via a storyline and comic book. In the fourth issue, Spectra and her friends must combat "mean girl" Tiffany Maxwell and her impish demon. Spectra's super powers are all real things that a laser beam can do. Additionally, the students will learn via the 4 activities and by reading through the comic book.

The FREE comics and science kits are available by contacting PhysicsCentral.com:


LINKS

http://www.physicscentral.com/experiment/physicsquest/past/index.cfm

http://www.physicscentral.com/experiment/physicsquest/index.cfm

http://physicsbuzz.physicscentral.com/2011/11/spectra-saves-girls-interest-in-science.html

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Kerry G. Johnson Design & Illustration
Caricatures by Kerry
Website/Blog: http://kerrykraft.com
Twitter: caricaturekerry

Government Comics on Internet Archive

A search for 'comic book' at the Internet Archive produces pdfs of some US Government comic book giveaways including Mr. Civil Defense Tells About Natural Disasters which has a Li'l Abner cover and Smash-Up at Big Rock with art by Mark Trail's Ed Dodd. There's also a Jack Chick and a Klan comic. I guess there are still some government giveaway comics although the only one coming to mind at the moment is PS Magazine - now with Joe Kubert artwork.