The Story of Inflation

Published by the Federal Reserve Bank of New York from 1981 to 2006, The Story of Inflation is a four-issue educational comic series that explains economic concepts through a straightforward, accessible narrative. Written primarily by Charles Parnow and Ed Steinberg, with art by Al Wenzel, Jesse Chen, and Norman Nodel, it stands as a unique example of a government institution using the comic medium for public financial literacy. Its matter-of-fact approach to a complex topic makes it a curious artifact of both economic history and the broader use of comics for non-entertainment purposes.