Product Description \nIn 2020, the COVID-19 pandemic brought the world to its knees. When we weren't sheltering in place, we were advised to wear masks, wash our hands, and practice social distancing. We watched in horror as medical personnel worked around the clock to care for the sick and dying. Businesses were shuttered, travel stopped, workers were furloughed, and markets dropped. And people continued to die.\nAmid all this uncertainty, writers and artists from around the world continued to create comics, commenting directly on how individuals, societies, governments, and markets reacted to the worldwide crisis. COVID Chronicles: A Comics Anthology collects more than sixty such short comics from a diverse set of creators, including indie powerhouses, mainstream artists, Ignatz and Eisner Award winners, and media cartoonists. In narrative styles ranging from realistic to fantastic, they tell stories about adjusting to working from home, homeschooling their kids, missing birthdays and weddings, and being afraid just to leave the house. They probe the failures of government leaders and the social safety net. They dig into the racial bias and systemic inequities that this pandemic helped bring to light. We see what it's like to get the virus and live to tell about it, or to stand by helplessly as a loved one passes.\nAt times heartbreaking and at others hopeful and humorous, these comics express the anger, anxiety, fear, and bewilderment we feel in the era of COVID-19. Above all, they highlight the power of art and community to help us make sense of a world in crisis, reminding us that we are truly all in this together.\nThe comics in this collection have been generously donated by their creators. A portion of the the proceeds from the sale of this volume are being donated by the publisher to the Book Industry Charitable Foundation (Binc) in support of comics shops, bookstores, and their employees who have been adversely affected by the pandemic. \nReview 
“In a diverse, impassioned book, these quick responders illustrate the impact of the pandemic with work of lasting value.” 
―starred review, Kirkus Reviews\n“COVID Chronicles will prove to be an indispensable work of graphic medicine, a testimony to a dark but unforgettable chapter in our common history.” 
―A. David Lewis, author of The Lone and Level Sands\n“Impassioned and impressive. . . . Captures the anxiety, courage, and surreality of the current era with a visceral quality that lingers.” 
―Publishers Weekly\n“As a taxonomy of the many voices around the pandemic, COVID Chronicles is a substantial and wide-ranging anthology.” 
―Bruno Savill de Jong, Broken Frontier\n“A broad range of voices covers pandemic experiences in every facet of our lives, from housing to mental health to historical context. Together, these stories highlight the medium’s inherent strengths in conveying our complex humanity. Essential and accessible.” 
―Nate Powell, artist of the March trilogy\n“COVID Chronicles embodies what comics can do so well: it’s an extraordinary and diverse collection of graphic narratives that bear witness to the pandemic as it continues to rage.” 
―Josh Neufeld, author of A.D.: New Orleans After the Deluge\n“Like the way panels and gutter space work together in a single comic, the stories in COVID Chronicles work together to link a remarkable variety of experiences from this shared pandemic while simultaneously connecting with the reader’s own life and imagination. This is the power of such volumes: to relate, to inform, to unify, and to witness. COVID Chronicles will prove to be an indispensable work of graphic medicine, a testimony to a dark but unforgettable chapter in our common history.” 
―A. David Lewis, author of The Lone and Level Sands\n“Wonderful art often emerges from pain and its rippling effects. The virus offers this silver lining of talented folks sharing their moments from 2020's year of hell.” 
―Paul Levitz, author of 75 Years of DC Comic

COVID Chronicles: A Comics Anthology

Comics & Graphic Novels

Ambaum, Gene

Barnett, Ned

Anta, Julio

Best, Ken

Manga

Graphic Mundi

Welcome to Unshelved, the world's only daily comic strip set in a public library! Writer Gene Ambaum (the made-up name of a real-life librarian) and co-writer and artist Bill Barnes have been publishing since February 16, 2002. Some of the stories are made up, some of them are based on real life, and some are absolutely true stories sent to us from our readers. And the stranger the story, the more likely it is to be true.

Unshelved

Barnes, Bill

Comic Strips

Overdue Media

Dewey and his fellow librarians confront the FBI, psychic fairs, poetry slams, crashed hard drives, identity theft, and of course each other. Features introduction by librarian, bestselling author, and action figure model Nancy Pearl plus pages of never-before-published comics.

What Would Dewey Do?: An Unshelved Collection

What's so funny about a library? Just about everything, as you'll find out in Library Mascot Cage Match, the third Unshelved collection. In addition to a year's worth of comic strips featuring library mascots duking it out and the return of the masked mystery man known only as "the Shusher," LMCM features the all-new full-color graphic novelette Empire County Strikes Back. Can Mallville's librarians defeat the mother of all bookmobiles?

Library Mascot Cage Match: An Unshelved Collection

Literature & Fiction

No one gets asked questions more frequently than a librarian, and no librarian answers them with more attitude than Dewey! The latest Unshelved collection features a year's worth of daily comics and Conference Tips, plus the full-color Unshelved Book Club. Also features the Great Plastic Coffee Cup Lid Challenge between Unshelved and Sheldon, refereed by comics journalist Gary Tyrrell.

Frequently Asked Questions: An Unshelved Collection

If Cheers had taken place in a public library it might have been something like the hugely popular Internet-only comic strip Unshelved. Follow the adventures of a young librarian named Dewey, his dysfunctional coworkers, and the people they're supposed to be helping. With no continuity and the best art and writing of the series, this latest collection is a great place for new readers to jump in and discover an unfamiliar side of a very familiar place.

Reader's Advisory: Unshelved 7 (An Unshelved Collection)

What do you get when you mix adults, teenagers, children, babies, seniors, professionals, parents, teachers, students, homeschoolers, and the homeless? That very funniest of places, your local public library, home of the hugely popular Web comic Unshelved.

Large Print: an Unshelved collection

Poopy Claws is a short, sweet, gross, funny, all-ages graphic novel about a boy and his best friend, a cat named Stinky. Stinky doesn’t use his litter box, but he does like to use the boy’s sandbox and mom’s closet. Unfortunately, (1) Stinky doesn’t clean his paws afterward, (2) mom is a bit of a clean freak, and (3) mom’s overbearing aunt is coming for dinner.

Poopy Claws

Children's Books

Animals

These days information is easy to come by - too easy, perhaps. In the newest Unshelved collection our stalwart staff of library workers help Mallville's citizens make sense of it all, while dealing with their increasingly worrisome budget problems. Meanwhile Dewey's girlfriend Cathy has a big surprise for him, and his life will never be the same again!

Too Much Information: an Unshelved collection

The new "Unshelved" collection begins where Too Much Information left off, with the birth of Dewey's adorable daughter, Trillian. It also features: 
<ul> The on-the-job education of Mallville Public Library's newest employee, Dyna the clerk Dewey explaining plagiarism to an unrepentant Merv The mystery patron who won't leave the bathroom Dewey's NDA review copy of a hot new YA novel by his favorite author Library Day Camp Staff self-assessments ... and much more! In addition to daily comic strips from our site, "Bibliovores" features "Dewey's Secret Origin," "Conference Tips," and the 12 page classic comic epic "What Would Dewey Do @ BEA?"
 It's the same compact size as "TMI" and Large Print, but this time around we have six months worth of color strips. 
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Bibliovores: an Unshelved collection

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