As COVID-19 spreads, many writers have reported an comprehensible mind freeze. Sure, Shakespeare in all probability wrote King Lear, Macbeth, and Anthony and Cleopatra beneath quarantine. However he didn’t have Twitter to deal with.
If you wish to learn nonfiction about pandemics, Lily Dunn has you lined. However what about artists and writers chronicling their journey with COVID-19 in an attention-grabbing manner?
I’ve discovered a couple of.
Among the many first to begin up corona diaries had been—unsurprisingly—Lebanese comix artists. A lot of at this time’s Lebanese comix artists grew up being locked in through the nation’s 15-year civil warfare. A number of have written lovely graphic novels about this time. These embrace Zeina Abirached (A Sport for Swallows, tr. Edward Gauvin) and Lamia Ziade (Bye Bye Babylon, translated by Olivia Snaije).
Graphic novelist and musician Mazen Kerbaj saved an excellent on-line journal on the time of the 2006 invasion of Beirut. It was later gathered into a beautiful ebook, revealed first in French and Arabic. Lastly, it got here out in English as Beirut Gained’t Cry.
Since I subscribe to Kerbaj’s emails, I acquired a observe about his new “Corona Diaries.”
1. Mazen Kerbaj’s “The Corona Diaries” (Lebanon)
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Coronavirus is just not centered in Lebanon. Nevertheless, Kerbaj can nonetheless be counted on for visceral and attention-grabbing emotion about each the banal and the scary. Additionally, Lebanon has just lately been shaken each by fashionable protests and a worsening financial emergency.
2. Lina Ghaibeh’s “Karantina Lina” (Lebanon)
Lina Ghaibeh is a professor on the American College in Beirut and a comix artist. I came upon about her “Karantina Lina” on Twitter.
Though Lebanon’s web is infamously unhealthy—and purposefully saved that manner—certainly many can relate to the difficulties of educating on-line “in a WIFI unfriendly zone.”
You may comply with Karantina Lina on Fb.
three. RBT: “Dwelling Among the many Rising Numbers” (South Korea)
I used to be happy to seek out this on-line comedian by “RBT” about life in South Korea through the Coronavirus outbreak.
This on-line comedian was launched on the finish of February. The flattened fashion is especially good at speaking the uncertainty of the occasions.
four. Lody Njiokiktjien’s “Introverts and Corona” (Netherlands)
Ought to she? Shouldn’t she? She appears to have determined: sure.
5. DomArcher’s “COVID-19/COMICS-20” (Russia)
DomArcher, a British comix artist in Moscow, has a distinct venture.
At the moment, they’re placing out a name for artists to take part in “COVID-19/COMICS-20.” They write: “We’re making a webcomic with three weekly releases for 14 weeks that appears to teach and empathize over #COVID2019. These 42 comics will then be curated into an anthology and all earnings donated to charity.”
Name for artists – Coronavirus charity venture titled COVID-19/COMICS-20
We’re making a webcomic with three weekly releases for 14 weeks that appears to teach and empathize over #COVID2019
These 42 comics will then be curated into an anthology and all earnings donated to charity pic.twitter.com/kZbPrcoHQI
— DomArcher COVID-19/COMICS-20 LOOKING FOR ARTISTS (@ComicsArcher) March 13, 2020
6. Corona (VS) Comics! (Italy)
Italy is on the present epicenter of the virus. The comix neighborhood responded to the shutdown with Corona (vs) Comics, which they’re calling the primary on-line comix present.
The present is about to happen March 25–28, from 10:00 AM to eight:00 PM, on the social platforms of It Comics, Twitch and Fb. They promise stay interactions with greater than 30 authors and publishers.
Many artists have additionally drawn lovely single-panel photographs. A couple of of my favorites are by Maya Fidawi and Wanda Mirjana. You could find extra looking #CoronaComic.
