Comic book rifle maintenance
Submitted by jrjacobs on Fri, 2008-05-16 12:42.
In 1968, Will Eisner, an acclaimed American comics writer who passed away in 2005, illustrated a US Army rifle maintenance booklet that instructs soldiers to treat their rifles like a woman. I just added it to our Best Titles Ever page, not because the title itself is particularly funny or odd, but because this was a comic book -- distributed to all US military personnel in Viet Nam -- whose illustrations were strange and sexist.
M16A1 rifle : operation and preventive maintenance. DA Pam 750-30.
[Thanks BoingBoing!]
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Saw that and thought of Best Titles Ever. Was going to email the link to you but ya beat me to it! ;-) Hee hee.
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