Comics in the Time of a Pan(dem)ic: COVID-19, Graphic Medicine, and Metaphors.
Perspect Biol Med
; 64(1): 136-154, 2021.
Article
in English
| MEDLINE | ID: covidwho-1197362
ABSTRACT
Comics have always responded to pandemics/catastrophes, documenting the way we deal with such crises. Recently, graphic medicine, an interdisciplinary field of comics and medicine, has been curating comics, editorial cartoons, autobiographical cartoons, and social media posts under the heading "COVID-19 Comics" on their websites. These collected comics express what we propose to call covidity, a neologism that captures both individual and collective philosophical, material, and wide-ranging emotional responses to the COVID-19 pandemic. Treating such comics as the source material and drawing insights from theorists Ian Williams, Alan Bleakley, Susan Sontag, and others, this article examines graphic medicine's representation of the COVID-19 pandemic. The conceptual metaphors of war, anthropomorphism, and superheroism are used to represent and illustrate the lived experience of the pandemic, and the article investigates metaphor types, their utility, and motivational triggers for such representations. In doing so, the essay situates graphic medicine as a productive site that presents the pandemic's multifarious impact.
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Database:
MEDLINE
Main subject:
Metaphor
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Graphic Novels as Topic
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SARS-CoV-2
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COVID-19
Type of study:
Observational study
Limits:
Humans
Language:
English
Journal:
Perspect Biol Med
Year:
2021
Document Type:
Article
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