COVID Chronicles : A Comics Anthology

In 2020, the COVID-19 pandemic introduced the world to its knees. After we weren’t sheltering in place, we had been suggested to put on masks, wash our arms, and apply social distancing. We watched in horror as medical personnel labored across the clock to take care of the sick and dying. Companies had been shuttered, journey stopped, staff had been furloughed, and markets dropped. And folks continued to die.

Amid all this uncertainty, writers and artists from world wide continued to create comics, commenting instantly on how people, societies, governments, and markets reacted to the worldwide disaster. COVID Chronicles: A Comics Anthology collects greater than sixty such brief comics from a various set of creators, together with indie powerhouses, mainstream artists, Ignatz and Eisner Award winners, and media cartoonists. In narrative kinds starting from practical to unbelievable, they inform tales about adjusting to working from dwelling, homeschooling their youngsters, lacking birthdays and weddings, and being afraid simply to depart the home. They probe the failures of presidency leaders and the social security web. They dig into the racial bias and systemic inequities that this pandemic helped convey to mild. We see what it’s wish to get the virus and stay to inform about it, or to face by helplessly as a beloved one passes.

At occasions heartbreaking and at others hopeful and humorous, these comics categorical the anger, anxiousness, worry, and bewilderment we really feel within the period of COVID-19. Above all, they spotlight the facility of artwork and group to assist us make sense of a world in disaster, reminding us that we’re actually all on this collectively.

The comics on this assortment have been generously donated by their creators. A portion of the the proceeds from the sale of this quantity are being donated by the writer to the Ebook Business Charitable Basis (Binc) in assist of comics outlets, bookstores, and their workers who’ve been adversely affected by the pandemic.