Comics in the Time of a Pan(dem)ic: COVID-19, Graphic Medicine, and Metaphors

Saji, Sweetha; Venkatesan, Sathyaraj; Callender, Brian

doi:10.1353/pbm.2021.0010

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“…Comics are one of the media teaching and learning activities in the pandemic period. As revealed, [20] comics respond to pandemics /disasters, an interesting study conducts comics such as interesting source material. Comics as an integral part of the research process, there has been an increase [21].…”

Section: Preliminary Study On Needs Analysismentioning

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Accounting Comics as a Medium of Learning

Maria¹,

Armaini²,

Noviyanti³

et al. 2022

Advances in Social Science, Education and Humanities Research

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This study is research qualitative, to contribute to learning media development in SMK Negeri 1 Palembang. The multimedia is in the form of accounting comics with accounting cycle materials for class X. Comics are made in comic books and animated videos that can be accessed through web blogs. This research is a 4D model (Define, Design, Development, and Dissemination). The study was conducted from July to September 2021. Data collection was performed by monitoring, Q&A, questionnaires, and validation of expert teams. Accounting comics was validated by the expert judges of many 20 people. The expert validation showed that: accounting comic learning media belongs to a very viable category and fits the criteria of media eligibility. Thus, accounting comic media can be piloted at a later stage and used for the accounting learning process.

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Section: Preliminary Study On Needs Analysismentioning

confidence: 99%

Accounting Comics as a Medium of Learning

Maria¹,

Armaini²,

Noviyanti³

et al. 2022

Advances in Social Science, Education and Humanities Research

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“…As a visual medium and cultural product, comics provide significant contributions to a pandemic's visual culture (Callender et al, 2020). Saji et al (2021) examined the nature, purpose and selection of conceptual and visual metaphors in self-published comics and contended that military metaphors, anthropomorphism and super heroism are employed to describe and illustrate the pandemic's lived experience. Additionally, their articles examined the various sorts of metaphors, their utilities and the motivations for such representations.…”

Section: Literature Review Pandemic Comics and Cultural Functionsmentioning

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The Portrayals of State Machinery Figures in Combating COVID-19 in Malaysia: A Study on Ernest Ng’s CovidBall Z

Kudus¹,

Lee²

2022

JKMJC

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In this time of pandemic, people engage with diverse narratives of infographics to make sense of their experiences. Scholars agreed that comics are graphic mediums and cultural artefacts that significantly contribute to the visual community of the COVID-19 pandemic. One of the comic artists in Malaysia, Ernest Ng, initially published his comics online and later converted them into three volumes of comic books entitled CovidBall Z Volume 1 (2020a), 2 (2020b) and 3 (2021). The objective of this paper is to undertake a content analysis of the portrayals of the various state machinery figures both from the government and opposition sides (i.e., ministers, politicians and government officers) in their roles in combating COVID-19. Additionally, the analysis wishes to uncover contemporary attitudes Ng uses such as symbolism, exaggeration and irony, among others, to convey his views on the current issue in obvious and subtle ways. In analysing the data, this study employed data analysis techniques in the form of descriptive content analysis. It was found that the social commentaries presented in Ng’s comics via the plot depict the existence of sexism, unfair treatment, and prejudice by several characters which lead to bully culture in the midst of the political metaphorical depiction of war and heroism among Malaysian state machinery figures. The images in his comics help people analyse, reflect on, and interpret our experiences by informing, providing meaning, and illustrating the COVID-19 outbreak narrative. Keywords: Comics, content analysis, CovidBall Z, Ernest Ng, Covid-19.

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“…Cuatro de sus ilustraciones muestran un único virus SARS-CoV-2. En el caso concreto de los cómics y viñetas para la educación sanitaria, denominados Graphic Medicine (Medicina gráfica), se ha destacado la abundancia de metáforas bélicas, en las que el virus es representado como el enemigo que hay que combatir, así como la antropomorfización del virus (Saji, Venkatesan, y Callender, 2021). Desde otra perspectiva metodológica, otros estudios han tratado de indagar por el imaginario visual del coronavirus pidiendo a los participantes que lo dibujaran.…”

Section: La Imagen Científica Del Virión Del Sars-cov-2unclassified

evolución de las imágenes del coronavirus en los informativos de las televisiones españolas y su relación con las imágenes científicas del virus

Díez

Daimiel

Gómez

et al. 2021

FJC

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El objetivo principal del presente estudio ha sido analizar las características de la representación del virus SARS-CoV-2 en los informativos de las televisiones españolas y su evolución, así como su relación con las imágenes científicas en las que se han basado. Para ello se ha estudiado una muestra de imágenes de los informativos de cuatro cadenas (RTVE, Antena TV, La Sexta y Cuatro) en 2020 y 2021, en las que la imagen del virus estuviera presente en los fondos de los informativos. Asimismo, se han analizado las imágenes del SARS-CoV-2 publicadas en las páginas web de dos instituciones científicas, el CDC y el NIAID. Los resultados muestran las televisiones siguen utilizando predominantemente imágenes en 3D y se observa una tendencia al uso de un único virión. Asimismo, se constata una convergencia funcional entre imágenes científicas y mediáticas, que se refleja en la manipulación cromática de los registros técnicos obtenidos por microscopía electrónica, por parte de los creadores de las primeras. El estudio contribuye a la investigación sobre el imaginario visual de las pandemias, así como a demostrar los límites cada vez más difusos entre imágenes científicas y comunicativas.

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Comics in the Time of a Pan(dem)ic: COVID-19, Graphic Medicine, and Metaphors

Cited by 31 publications

References 6 publications

Accounting Comics as a Medium of Learning

Accounting Comics as a Medium of Learning

The Portrayals of State Machinery Figures in Combating COVID-19 in Malaysia: A Study on Ernest Ng’s CovidBall Z

evolución de las imágenes del coronavirus en los informativos de las televisiones españolas y su relación con las imágenes científicas del virus

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