Exciting news! The Biomedical Libraries has recently acquired a collection of Graphic Medicine novels located just above the Consumer Health collection at Matthews-Fuller library!
This month we look back over the last year with COVID Chronicles: a comics anthology. Although the world continues to be impacted by COVID-19, this anthology provides snapshot stories from writers and artists alike relaying their stories from early and mid-2020 at the height of uncertainty. United around the theme of the pandemic the comics are rich not only in their visual style and variety but in their ability to highlight the numerous ways that lives have been affected. Whether it’s the shift to working from home, being in the depths of providing frontline healthcare, caring for loved ones in sickness and in death, to political unrest, and more, the stories are powerful and heartbreaking but more often uplifting and occasionally humorous.
There are many notable contributors, including Ian Williams (author of The Bad Doctor) MK Czerwiec (known as the Comics Nurse, author of Taking Turns), and Peter Dunlap-Shohl (author of My Degeneration) and many more.
While each of us has our own experiences that we hold in a compartment of our brains from the last year and since, this compilation allows us to dive into other firsthand accounts and reflections that can help infer meaning from our own and remind us that we are not alone. We will likely see more creative and collaborative accounts of this era, and they will be an invaluable resource for memory and history. Perhaps picking up COVID Chronicles will inspire you to tell your own story and find a new way of connecting with your community through writing, drawing, or both!
This post was written by Samantha Wiebkin, an Information Access Assistant for the Biomedical Libraries.
