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Home / Pandemic

No Ordinary Flu

Jan. 23, 2023 by Guest

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by Janet Chan No Ordinary Flu doubles as both a story of pandemics and public health guidance from the public health Center of Seattle and King County, Washington. Artists David Lasky and Lin Lucas use a limited color palette which succeeds in conveying both the sadness in the situations and the hope for the future. This short 12-page publication introduces a family on the brink of the 2020 Covid pandemic recounting their ancestors’ experiences during the 1918 flu pandemic. Through the story we see the events of the 1918 pandemic unfurl. The flu virus’ identification on the east coast and… Read More

Tags: COVID-19, flu, influenza, Pandemic

Miss Butterworth and the Mad Baron

Jan. 19, 2023 by Guest

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awaiting review

Tags: mental illness, Pandemic, Smallpox, survival

Living & Dying in America: A Daily Chronicle 2020-2022

Jan. 16, 2023 by Guest

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review by Stephen Dudas In his foreword to Steve Brodner’s Living & Dying in America: A Daily Chronicle 2020-2022, Edward Sorrel draws the apt comparison between Brodner’s graphic diary of the COVID-19 pandemic and the diaries of Samuel Pepys. Just as Pepys “fastidiously kept a record of the effects that the bubonic plague had on London” in the 17th century, Brodner records a nuanced experience of the first two years of the pandemic in our own time. Deeply reflective and carefully analytical of the intersectional dimensions of illness in a politically and socially tumultuous era, the artifact Brodner creates (and… Read More

Tags: COVID-19, death and dying, Pandemic

Malaria – The Battle Against a Microscopic Killer

Jan. 3, 2023 by Guest

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awaiting review

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Medical Mentions Book Reviews V

Jul. 17, 2022 by Kevin Wolf

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Book Review by Kevin Wolf Medical Mentions is a group of graphic works. The graphic works reviewed here are books whose primary topics are not medical, and yet they cover a medical topic with some depth at some point in the work. The rest of the work might be fictional or nonfictional, while the medical portion is often technical and five pages or more. The reviewer will usually neither recommend nor discourage reading the work, except when the rest of the work is deemed outstanding or terrible, respectively. Typically, six graphic works will be part of the review with one paragraph… Read More

Categories: Graphic Novels Tags: birth, car accident, COVID-19, drawing injury, eating disorder, environment, fever, infection, injury, Pandemic, pregnancy, PTSD, self-harm

Making the Impact of the Virus Accessible

Aug. 23, 2021 by Lucy Bergonzi

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            Guest Post by Lucy Bergonzi Books Beyond Words is a publisher of picture-led books and resources for people with learning disabilities. These wordless stories, dealing with many of life’s issues, are designed for people who find it easier to read using pictures rather than words. I’ve been one of Books Beyond Words’ illustrators since 2015.  The Covid pandemic has affected all of us to a greater or lesser extent, but for people with learning disabilities the crisis has been particularly difficult and damaging. The British Medical Journal says ‘the Covid-19 pandemic has had a devastating effect… Read More

Categories: caregiving, comics, Conference Presenters, drawing, Health Education, Medical Humanities, medical illustration, Mental Health, Picture Books Tags: Books beyond words, COVID-19, lucy bergonzi, Pandemic

Resistance by McDermid and Briggs

Jul. 2, 2021 by Guest

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Awaiting Review

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Cartoons in Time of COVID

Mar. 20, 2021 by Guest

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In Partnership with the Royal College of Physicians in Ireland  (RCPI) Heritage Centre Exhibition curated by Dr. Eoin Kelleher and Harriet Wheelock, RCPI Keeper of Collections     Guest Review by Jane Burns This exhibition has been developed from the artwork of Eoin Kelleher who has produced a series of Living with COVID Comics in the Irish Independent Newspaper since the start of the pandemic. Eoin is seasoned artist who has a fantastic way of connecting complex, emotive, and personal perspectives in comic formats. The exhibition is developed using Microsoft SWAY which makes it user friendly, interactive, and easy to share and… Read More

Categories: Exhibitions Tags: coronavirus, COVID-19, Pandemic

COVID Chronicles, Nib’s Pandemic & Comic News

Mar. 10, 2021 by Kevin Wolf

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Book Review by Kevin Wolf COVID Chronicles: True Stories from the Front Lines of COVID-19 The Nib #7 – Pandemic Issue The (Santa Cruz) Comic News – April 2020 Issue COVID Chronicles: A Comics Anthology I’ve heard it said that journalism is the first draft of history, because it’s writing about events that are currently happening and doesn’t have the hindsight that time provides to try to figure out how all the events fit together and global look of its causes and effects. This review covers the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic. The most recent events mentioned are from… Read More

Tags: coronavirus, COVID-19, Pandemic

Fever Year & Invisible War

Jul. 4, 2020 by Kevin Wolf

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Fever Year: The Killer Flu of 1918, A Tragedy in Three Acts The Invisible War: a Tale on Two Scales   By Kevin Wolf There are two graphic works that take place during World War I (WWI) and provide imaginative stories of bacterial and viral diseases. The spread of these diseases was helped by those war conditions. The viral one began in the United States—misnamed the Spanish Flu because of wartime censorship (more about that later)—and spread to the world as soldier-carriers traveled to the war front. The bacterial infection was dysentery—generally water- and food-borne—and spread by unsanitary conditions which… Read More

Tags: influenza, Pandemic

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