ReadyMan Info-comics Books in Order
Part ofJeff Kirkham Books in OrderExplore the ReadyMan Info-comics series by Jeff Kirkham, with every short survival guide in order, brief summaries, series background, and suggestions on which practical booklet to read first.
Last updated: January 17, 2026
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Publication Order
7 books
Toasty Survival
by Jeff Kirkham
2021
This quick reading Info-comic tackles the problem of staying warm and fed when modern heating and cooking stop working. It offers simple, low tech ideas for clothing, shelter, stoves, and fire that help families ride out winter storms or longer grid failures in relative comfort.
Electric Apocalypse
by Jeff Kirkham
2021
Electric Apocalypse explains how to build small, resilient sources of power so your family is not helpless when the grid fails. Using cartoons and clear examples, it walks through batteries, generators, solar panels, radios, and smart load management to keep lights, communication, and key tools running.
Water Hero
by Jeff Kirkham
2020
Water Hero uses cheeky illustrations to explain how to keep your family drinking safely without hoarding pallets of bottles. It covers storage, filtration, purification, and creative ways to find or make clean water when public systems fail or local supplies are suddenly cut off.
Poor Man's Tactical Campsite
by Jeff Kirkham
2020
Blending field craft with dark humor, this guide shows how to build a campsite that can handle both bad weather and bad people. It adapts patrol base concepts to civilian life, covering site selection, layout, noise and light discipline, and basic security in rough times.
Fixed for Food Storage
by Jeff Kirkham
2020
Focused on everyday households, this Info-comic turns food storage into a simple, repeatable routine instead of a bunker fantasy. It shows how to choose staples, organize shelves, rotate cans, and avoid waste so your pantry quietly becomes a buffer against shortages and hard times.
Do-it-yourself Defense
by Jeff Kirkham
2020
Do-it-yourself Defense treats home protection as a layered family plan rather than a single tool. Starting with awareness and communication, it walks readers through hardening a house, planning for emergencies, and, only as a last resort, bringing firearms into a thoughtful overall defense strategy.
Poor Man's Bug Out, Escape and Evasion
by Jeff Kirkham
2019
Packed with irreverent art and hard earned tips, this booklet teaches how to leave home fast when staying means dying. It covers bug out timing, routes, gear that will actually get carried, and simple escape and evasion tricks for dodging trouble rather than charging into it.
Series background & context
The ReadyMan Info-comics series takes serious survival topics and squeezes them into short, funny, illustrated booklets. Instead of dense manuals, these guides read like a cross between a field note and a comic strip, but the material underneath comes out of years of Special Forces and back country experience.
Each volume focuses on one slice of household preparedness and keeps the scope small enough to finish in a single sitting. Diagrams, cartoons, and plain language sidebars walk through problems that can feel overwhelming, from how to leave home in a hurry to how to keep the lights on when the grid fails.
Poor Man's Bug Out, Escape and Evasion is the natural starting point for many readers. It looks at when you should leave home, what a realistic destination and route actually look like, and how to move light and quiet instead of trying to haul an entire house on your back.
Poor Man's Tactical Campsite picks up once you are sleeping in the woods or a safe lot, translating patrol base ideas into camp layouts that protect people instead of just pitching tents at random. It talks through choosing ground, managing noise and light, and keeping watch without burning everyone out on security duty.
Other titles tackle specific lifelines one by one. Water Hero breaks down ways to store, find, and purify water without fighting neighbors for the last case of bottles. Fixed for Food Storage shows how to turn normal pantry shopping into a simple, rotating stash that rides out supply disruptions without wasting money or food.
Toasty Survival covers staying warm and fed when the furnace and stove stop working, from layering clothes to using alternative heat and cooking options safely. Electric Apocalypse explains small scale power options, from generators to solar panels and radios, and helps readers think about what truly needs electricity and what can wait.
Rounding things out, Do-it-yourself Defense reframes family defense as a layered plan that starts long before anyone touches a firearm and emphasizes avoidance, planning, and de escalation. Taken together, the Info-comics line offers a friendly on ramp to the broader world of preparedness and pairs naturally with both the Black Autumn fiction and Jeff Kirkham's more detailed non fiction manuals.
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