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Welcome to my friend and now collaborator Frank Young, who colored this cartoon. There’s no way I could do justice to Frank’s resume – cartoonist, novelist, former editor of the Comics Journal , author of many nonfiction books about classic comics, and curator of many fine collections of classic comics. The first time Frank colored this cartoon, he colored it like a regular cartoon – you know, with actual colors and stuff. I had to ask him to try again, this time using the sort of very limited palettes I usually prefer. I’m very happy with how the finished cartoon came out. TRANSCRIPT OF CARTOON This cartoon has four panels, plus a small “kicker” panel below the bottom of the strip. Each of the panels shows the same scene; two humans, and an anthropomorphized coronavirus (with a perfectly round head and little things sticking out of the head in every direction). Other than that, the corona virus has an ordinary human body. The two humans are a woman with shoulder-length hair, ...

If you enjoy these cartoons, be part of making more! Support the patreon ! TRANSCRIPT OF CARTOON This cartoon has four panels, each showing a different scene. PANEL 1 Most of this panel is taken up by very large, rough lettering, the title of the cartoon. “SOMETIMES IT FEELS LIKE CORONAVIRUS HAS ALWAYS BEEN WITH US.” In the bottom of the comic, a woman is leaning on her elbows, looking wistfully out an upper floor window of a house. WOMAN (thought): I can’t remember the last time I put on pants. PANEL 2 In the foreground, a woman in a Shakespearean-style gown is frantically washing her hands and yelling. Behind her, a man peeks through a doorway, holding up a forefinger in a “making a point” gesture and speaking very cheerfully. They are Lady Macbeth and Macbeth. LADY MACBETH: OUT, DAMNED SPOT! OUT I SAY! MACBETH: Remember to do that for at least twenty seconds, hon! PANEL 3 The panel shows several people hanging on crosses in Rome sometime in the first century. In the f...