Looking back over a year of my COVID-19 cartoons, I’m struck by how they reflect a slow-motion realization of the horror of what was unfolding.
What started as a “science” story became an everything story about a pandemic that to date has killed over 525,000 people in the United States alone.
In a sign of my early pandemic stupidity, I drew this â my first cartoon about coronavirus â while sitting in a crowded food court (unmasked, of course) while on a trip to New York City on Jan. 31, 2020.
Remember the introduction of the elbow-bump? At first it seemed almost quaint and funny, until most of us here in the Bay Area became more like the character in the last frame.
See the full post for more COVID-related cartoons.
âMark Fiore
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