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Covid Chronicles: A Comics Anthology by Rich Johnson, Kendra Boileau
3 reviews
therainbowshelf's review
adventurous
challenging
emotional
hopeful
informative
inspiring
reflective
sad
tense
medium-paced
4.0
I bought this a while back and only just recently read through the collection. It was cool seeing so many people's comic responses to or during the pandemic. They all had their own interest and insights. I'm glad I picked this up.
Content Warnings
Graphic: Chronic illness, Death, Racism, Grief, Death of parent, Classism, and Pandemic/Epidemic
Displacementjcstokes95's review
challenging
dark
emotional
hopeful
informative
inspiring
reflective
sad
medium-paced
3.25
The value of this anthology is it makes you feel a lot less alone in how you thought about Covid in the 2020. Some of these stories will probably remind you of some vivid memory you have from the intensity of 2020. While Covid is by no means over, this does feel very specific to the beginnings of it; which at times gives you a little bit of dread. Also, as other reviewers have mentioned, because it's released so close to the events, much of the themes repeats and it's not organized in any particular way. This makes it a bit weaker of an anthology. I'd be really interested to see this revisited down the line and more heavily edited and organized. While individual comics here are strong and have a point of view, the overall collection sometimes lacks one.
I do really appreciate getting to sample a wide breadth of art styles and found a few folks I will explore more from. Favorites were Between Two Worlds, How to Have a Powwow in a Pandemic, The Iron Lung at Enders Lab, Sort of Together & Mostly Apart and Pandemic Precarities. Between Two Worlds got at the heart of most of my feelings about the three years in just a few pages. Pieces like this really got me in my feelings throughout this collection. A lot of what's in here feels like Covid 'slice of life' material but I think I really enjoyed the pieces that had something deeper to convey, but I know that may not be true of every comic reader.
I do really appreciate getting to sample a wide breadth of art styles and found a few folks I will explore more from. Favorites were Between Two Worlds, How to Have a Powwow in a Pandemic, The Iron Lung at Enders Lab, Sort of Together & Mostly Apart and Pandemic Precarities. Between Two Worlds got at the heart of most of my feelings about the three years in just a few pages. Pieces like this really got me in my feelings throughout this collection. A lot of what's in here feels like Covid 'slice of life' material but I think I really enjoyed the pieces that had something deeper to convey, but I know that may not be true of every comic reader.
Content Warnings
Graphic: Death and Death of parent
ladykatka's review
challenging
emotional
informative
reflective
sad
fast-paced
3.0
I shouldn't have read this so soon after the restrictions were lifted. Covid isn't even over yet.
However, even though Covid isn't over yet this already feels dated and not going to lie a bit of a bummer to read. Most of the stories just end so abruptly it causes a feeling of anxiety because you don't know what happened to these people the story just ends in the middle. The stories that do end unfortunately don't have a happy ending it usually ends in a tragic way which causes feelings of sadness or anxiety or even depression because this wasn't very long ago and some of us are still going through it today.
However, even though Covid isn't over yet this already feels dated and not going to lie a bit of a bummer to read. Most of the stories just end so abruptly it causes a feeling of anxiety because you don't know what happened to these people the story just ends in the middle. The stories that do end unfortunately don't have a happy ending it usually ends in a tragic way which causes feelings of sadness or anxiety or even depression because this wasn't very long ago and some of us are still going through it today.
Content Warnings
Moderate: Death, Medical content, Grief, and Death of parent
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