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It’s Tales From the Pandemic. No Testing Required.

Black Mirror? Twilight Zone? No. This is COVID-19. Inspired by events during the 2020 lockdown, Tales From The Pandemic is a 29-page collection of shorts, a visual mixtape rather, created by comics folks to help cope with the worldwide, life-altering event!

Writer and Comedian Mario Candelaria leads a stellar team of nine up-and-coming artists from the indie comics scene with seven scintillating stories that are Tales From The Pandemic: “Paper House” by Andy Michael, “Lips” by J. Paul Schiek, “Flight 616” by Randy Haldeman, “Happy Hour” by Joe Hunter, “Litterbug”, Dan Buksa, “Stride” by Sachi Ediriweera, “Are You Still Watching?” by Adam Ferris. Cover by Skylar Patridge and letters by Scott Ewen, with a foreword and afterword by MLS Cup winning soccer player, Danny Earls.

Tales From The Pandemic is available for purchase as a downloadable PDF via gumroad — just name your price!

Tales From The Pandemic

Comics Deserve Better Episode 2: The Old Guard by Greg Rucka, Leandro Fernandez, Daniela Miwa, Jodi Wynne

In the second episode of Comics Deserve Better, Brian, Darci, and Logan react to the 2020 Eisners and discuss the 2017 Greg Rucka and Leandro Fernandez comic, The Old Guard. Or what Logan likes to call “Blackwater, but queer”.

Other books talked about on the show include the webcomics Fangs by Sarah Andersen, Gunnerkrigg Court by Tom Siddell, and Clover and Nugget by Phil Sheldon as well as Scout ComicsYasmeen #1 and Tales from the Pandemic by Mario Candelaria and a bunch of awesome artists.

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