Comics & Graphic Novels Anthologies
COVID Chronicles
A Comics Anthology
- Publisher
- Penn State University Press
- Initial publish date
- Feb 2021
- Category
- Anthologies, Disease & Health Issues, Contagious, Infectious Diseases, Nonfiction
- Recommended Age
- 13 to 16
- Recommended Grade
- 8 to 11
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Paperback / softback
- ISBN
- 9780271090146
- Publish Date
- Feb 2021
- List Price
- $35.95
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Kendra Boileau is the Publisher of Graphic Mundi and the Assistant Director and Editor-in-Chief of Penn State University Press. She developed the Graphic Medicine line of graphic novels for PSU Press and went on to launch the Graphic Mundi imprint in 2021. Boileau has been a judge for the annual Lynd Ward Prize for the Best Graphic Novel, and she serves on the Lynd Ward Prize Advisory Board. Boileau is also a French-to-English translator of graphic novels.
Rich Johnson is a publishing consultant and the founder of Brick Road Media, LLC. Previously, he held leadership positions at Lion Forge Comics and DC Comics, and he was the cofounder of Yen Press. He created the sales and marketing strategy for Neil Gaiman’s Sandman: Endless Nights, the first original graphic novel to hit the New York Times Best Sellers list. In 2011, Johnson was selected as a judge for the Eisner Awards, considered by many to be the Oscars of comics.
Featuring work by Gene Ambaum, Julio Anta, Ned Barnett, Ken Best, Armond Boudreaux, Eiri Brown, Thi Bui, Maureen Burdock, Roland Burkart, Pavith C, Brian Canini, Jason Chatfield, Lili Chin, Gerry Chow, MK Czerwiec, Zack Davisson, Joe Decie, Deloupy, Ignacio Di Meglio, Katy Doughty, Peter Dunlap-Shohl, Sarah Firth, Eduardo Garcia, Mike Garcia, Hatiye Garip, Simon Gentry, Aaron Guzman, Rivi Handler-Spitz, Justin Hansen, Kurt Hathaway, Mark Heinrichs, Natascha Hoffmeyer, Laura Holzman, John Jennings, Kang Jing, Quincy Scott Jones, Scott Jones, Jazmine Joyner, Rob Kirby, Rob Kraneveldt, Jesse Lambert, Kelly Latham, Janet K. Lee, Ajuan Mance, Luis Manriquez, Lee Marrs, Seth Martel, Tom K. Mason, Sean Seamus McWhinny, Ben Mitchell, Terry Moore, Eli Neugeboren, Tim Ogline, Hassan Otsmane-Elhaou, Willow Payne, Stephanie Nina Pitsirilos, S. I. Rosenbaum, Jacoby Salcedo, Kay Sohini, Arigon Starr, Emily Steinberg, Jay Stephens, Sage Stossel, Chris Summers, Tamara, Brenna Thummler, Seth Tobocman, Shelley Wall, Ian Williams, Richard You Wu, Zen, and Annie Zhu.
Armond Boudreaux's profile page
Thi Bui was born in Việt Nam three months before the end of the American War, and came to the United States in 1978 as part of the “boat people” wave of refugees from Southeast Asia. Her debut graphic memoir, The Best We Could Do (Abrams ComicArts, 2017), has been selected as UCLA’s Common Book for 2017, a National Book Critics Circle finalist in autobiography, an Eisner Award finalist in Reality Based Comics, and made several Best of 2017 book lists, including Bill Gates’s top five picks. Bui is also the Caldecott Honor-winning illustrator of A Different Pond, a picture book by the poet Bao Phi (Capstone, 2017). Her short comics can be found online at The Nib, Reveal News, PEN America, and BOOM California. She is currently researching and drawing a work of graphic nonfiction about how Asian Americans are impacted by incarceration and deportation, to be published by One World, Random House. Bui taught high school in New York City and was a founding teacher of Oakland International High School, the first public high school in California for recent immigrants and English learners. Since 2015, she has been a faculty member of the MFA in Comics program at the California College of the Arts. Thi Bui lives in the Bay Area.
Maureen Burdock's profile page
Jason Chatfield's profile page
Ignacio Di Meglio's profile page
Peter Dunlap-Shohl's profile page
Rivi Handler-Spitz's profile page
Natascha Hoffmeyer's profile page
John Jennings is a retired associate professor in the Department of History at Trent University, former member of the Canadian Equestrian Team, and currently the member for Ontario on the Historic Sites and Monuments Board of Canada. He has written extensively on the North West Mounted Police, Aboriginal-European relations in the Canadian and American wests, and the role of The Canoe in Canadian history and culture.
Quincy Scott Jones' profile page
Scott Jones (he/him) is a musician, filmmaker, writer, and activist who is passionate about using creative expression as a way to build bridges with people and communities. After surviving a homophobic attack in 2013, Scott was compelled to use music and artistic expression as a vehicle for positive change. With the help of his loved ones, Scott founded the Don’t BE Afraid campaign and facilitated VOX: A Choir for Social Change, advocating for the rights of queer people and raising awareness about the very real and dangerous repercussions of queerphobia. For four years after the attack, Scott worked with the NFB and filmmaker Laura Marie Wayne to create the award-winning documentary Love, Scott (HotDocs, 2018) about his experiences with small-town homophobia and violence. Since that time, Scott has written and directed live action, music, and animated short films that centre queer and disabled perspectives, including Coin Slot (Best Atlantic Short Film, AIFF, 2022), Freedom, and Good Samaritan. Scott has also trained and worked extensively as a music facilitator and choir director, having conducted the Nova Scotia Youth Choir (resident conductor), the Pictou District Honour Choir, and Vox Populi. He has guest conducted the Amadeus Choir, Shallaway Youth Choir, Lady Cove Women’s Choir, Mount Allison Choral Society, and Singing Out LGBTQ Choir. For his artistic and advocacy work and for his community engagement, Scott received a YMCA Peace Medal, a Nova Scotia Human Rights Award, and a Mount Allison Alumni Award (Contemporary Achievement). Scott has a Masters of Arts from the University of Toronto and a Bachelor of Music (Piano Performance and Choral Conducting) from Mount Allison University.
Sean Seamus McWhinny's profile page
Hassan is a British/Algerian comics letterer, and has worked on titles like Vault Comics’ The Blue Flame, Black Stars Above, The RUSH, Engineward, No One’s Rose, and TEST, as well as X-O Manowar, First Knife, and Undone By Blood. He's also the editor of the Eisner-winning PanelxPanel, and voice behind Strip Panel Naked.
https://twitter.com/hassanoe
https://hassanoe.co.uk/
Hassan Otsmane-Elhaou's profile page
Stephanie Nina Pitsirilos' profile page
Emily Steinberg's profile page
Jay Stephens created the popular Chick and Dee comic for the 20th anniversary of chickaDEE Magazine. He is also the author of Monsters! and The Land of Nod Treasury. He lives in Los Angeles, CA where he works on his Emmy-winning cartoon series Tutenstein.
Brenna Thummler's profile page
Abby Hershler (MD, MA, FRCPC) is a psychiatrist and Lecturer in the Department of Psychiatry at the University of Toronto. She is a Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada.
Ian Williams is the author of the Giller Prize–winning novel Reproduction. His last poetry collection Personals was shortlisted for the Griffin Poetry Prize and the Robert Kroetsch Poetry Book Award. His short story collection, Not Anyone’s Anything, won the Danuta Gleed Literary Award for the best first collection of short fiction in Canada. His first book, You Know Who You Are, was a finalist for the ReLit Poetry Prize.
Williams holds a Ph.D. in English at the University of Toronto and is currently an assistant professor of poetry in the Creative Writing program at the University of British Columbia. He was the 2014-2015 Canadian Writer-in-Residence for the University of Calgary’s Distinguished Writers Program.
