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Home / COVID-19 Comics: Ethics/Social Justice

COVID-19 Comics: Ethics/Social Justice

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Medical anthropologist, writer, and artist Dana Walrath created these “Covid-19 Lessons” – more in this post.


The Nib has partnered with Reveal to create the series In/Vulnerable: Inequity in the Time of Pandemic. 


University of Chicago student Emily Zhao created this comic, “Covid-19 in Minority Communities” as a final project in the course “Death Panels: Exploring Dying and Death Through Comics” which was taught by Brian Callender & MK Czerwiec via Zoom during the lockdown, April – June.


Palliative care physician and cartoonist Nathan Gray created this comic to help guide advance care planning conversations in light of the pandemic.

Bioethicist Craig Klugman creates comics to illustrate his blog posts. His most recent comics are organized here and have addressed the ethical issues arising from Covid-19.


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NPR Correspondent Sarah Mirk created a comic about grocery workers and how they have been treated during the COVID-19 crisis.

Comic journalist Sarah Mirk checked in with grocery workers from across the country to hear more about their experiences during the pandemic and what they want to change.


Laura Gao created the comic, “The Wuhan I Know” to combat the fear and misinformation about her hometown. The post includes an interview with the artist about her project.


#IAmNotAVirus was created by French Asians to bear witness to Coronavirus-fueled racism. PBS Story here.

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In this comic by Eric Kostiuk Williams, the ghost of Susan Sontag comes back to remind us about metaphors and disease…

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