Just over a century ago, a terrible pandemic swept through the world...
...but the response by Americans was far, far different than in 2022!
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Published in 2008, this comic was distributed for free throughout the state of Washington.
As co-writer Meredith Li-Vollmer explained 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.
There's more to the story, as you'll see next Friday!
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