That comic didn't originate with Filing and Office Management; it’s from the long-running syndicated newspaper strip Barney Google. The eponymous character of t

That comic didn't originate with Filing and Office Management; it’s from the long-running syndicated newspaper strip Barney Google. The eponymous character of that strip may actually have indirectly inspired the name of the company: the mathematician who coined the term “googol” (after which the company was named) got it from his nephew, and it’s been suggested that he in turn got the word from the comic, which was very popular at the time. (The comic in turn got it from a 1913 children’s picturebook called “The Google Book,” about the various creatures of Googleland.)