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Saturday, June 27, 2020

You Thought We Were Getting Rid of CoronaVirus? Really?

As the Medical Menace makes an unwelcome comeback...

...why not Shelter-in-Place and enjoy COMIC BOOKS about imaginary (hopefully) epidemic/pandemics! devastating America (or Earth) in the past, present, and future...Mon-Fri here on this blog, and weekly / bi-weekly on our other RetroBlogs, including our newest one...

...Medical Comics and Stories...

...plus...

...Heroines!...

...Seduction of the Innocent...

...Hero Histories...

...War: Past, Present and Future...

...the aptly-named

...Not Safe For Work Comics...

...True Love Comics Tales

(You'd be amazed at how many romance comics stories revolve around disease!)...

...Horror Comics of the 1950s...

...Crime & Punishment...

...Secret Sanctum of Captain Video...

...Western Comics Adventures!

Besides the daily posts here at Atomic Kommie Comics, there'll be at several new ones spread out among the various RetroBlogs for the next week!
However, as of July 4th, we're ending the ongoing CoronaVirus Comics features on all the blogs!
There will still be CoronaVirus-oriented posts from time to time, but we're getting back on track with, among other things, our traditional Summer Blogathons!

Be here next Saturday for details!

Friday, June 26, 2020

Friday Fun / CoronaVirus Comics NELLIE THE NURSE "Busman's Holiday"

Before teen books like the Archie line dominated humor comics...

...there were...I suppose you'd call them..."young adult" humor comics like this one!

BTW, this opening panel's situation does not appear in the story...

In many ways, these comics are the screwball comedy b-movies / TV situation comedies of their era, as this never-reprinted tale from Timely's Nellie the Nurse #2 (1946) demonstrates!

Nellie had a healthy 36-issue run from 1945 to 1954.

She also popped up as a back-up feature in Willie Comics, Comedy Comics, and Millie the Model from time to time.

BTW, we mentioned Archie Comics earlier in this post.

When Nellie was revived in the late 1950s by Timely's successor, Atlas Comics, guess what style she was drawn in?

Saw that one coming, didn't ya?

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Thursday, June 25, 2020

CoronaVirus Comics: Medical Comics You SHOULD Know About...

Last week we presented No Ordinary Flu by co-writer Meredith Li-Vollmer...

After appearing at a San Diego Comic-Con panel in 2016...

I’ve been developing public health comics since 2008, when award-winning Seattle comics artist David Lasky and I created No Ordinary Flu, a comic book that evolved from my work trying to raise awareness of the potential catastrophic nature of a severe influenza pandemic.
It’s hard to interest people in health warnings about an illness that comes around every year, and presenting the information in a standard fact sheet did little to raise their awareness.
But by using comics to tell the story of a family living through the influenza pandemic of 1918, the issue takes on emotional weight and urgency.
A narrative grounds the information in what happens to the characters.
Suddenly, a crisis that seemed abstract and distant becomes much more concrete and human.

David and I have since done a number of other projects for the health department, including Survivor Tales, a comic book series featuring real-life survivors of disasters telling their stories, and shorter comic strips such as Home with Flu.
Outside of the health department, I collaborated with a group of local comics artists and scholars on Comics 4 Health Coverage, project that invited people to tell why health insurance matters in four comic panels.
Yes, I’ve done some comics for kids, Ready Freddie and Disaster Buddies.
And we aren’t alone in our quirky endeavors. Public Health – Seattle & King County’s Emergency Medical Services has developed a comic book for the Chinese community about how to call 9-1-1. King County’s Local Hazardous Waste program and 4Culture worked with comics artist Edie Everette on a HazMatters comic book.
The Annals of Internal Medicine regularly features comics that detail the experiences of medical providers.