Donna Lewis' Reply All vs Reply All Lite (updated 2x)

by Mike Rhode

This week, the Post switched from Donna Lewis' Reply All comic strip to her Reply All Lite comic panel.

I asked Donna if the panel was a modification of the strip, or all new, and she told me, "All new.  Never the same punchline as the strip. It began syndication March 20th, 2013 – after a year on the Internet."

"After I had been doing Reply All comic strip for a while, I began having lots of material I couldn't use at the time. Also, I needed a lot of practice learning to draw so I was drawing a lot of one off bits. At some point, I began posting the single panels for practice and to use material I liked and to build my Facebook audience. We realized in pretty short order that single panels get shared much more than strips, probably because there's no click or major investment of time required for a single panel. I was able to use the single panels to build my Facebook audience and, ultimately, the Lites were a whole lot of fun." 

I wonder if you're the only person to do the "same" strip as 2 different offerings. Some cartoonists like Wiley draw them so that the strip can be cut into a panel, but I've never heard of anyone doing it like you are.

"I just have a lot of material. I usually do 14 Lites a week. And, quite frankly, some punchlines are far funnier by themselves. Four panels are really much different (for me) than one panel. No set up puts all the pressure on the punchline. They're really fun to write."

I checked in with Amy Lago of the Washington Post Writers Group syndicate about Reply All Lite.

She says, "Lite has more of an online presence at this point.  The only place it’s running in print is the Washington Post.  Panels are notoriously harder to sell (because papers tend to run fewer), so that’s no surprise.  Our thought at the Writers Group was that Donna was creating them anyway, so why not try to syndicate them?  And judging by their popularity online, it was the right move.  I’m just not sure printed papers will catch on, though I’m thrilled the Post likes them."

Amy also says "I can’t think of anyone else who’s done two different versions of the same strip at the same time either," but D Heine has suggested Joe Martin's Mr. Boffo.

updated June 4, 2015

Comics Research Bibliography citations update, 3/2-3/2024

Donna Lewis – Reply All to Counterpoint, Reply All Lite Lost? – finding Lite update

D. D. Degg      

https://www.dailycartoonist.com/index.php/2024/03/02/donna-lewis-reply-all-to-counterpoint-reply-all-lite-lost/

 

Ramona Fradon, Longtime Force in the World of Comic Books, Dies at 97

One of the first women to work steadily in the field, she was best known for creating art for the superheroes Aquaman and Metamorpho.

By George Gene Gustines

A version of this article appears in print on March 2, 2024, Section B, Page 12 of the New York edition with the headline: Ramona Fradon, 97, Who Found Her Calling in Comic Books, Dies.

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/02/29/arts/ramona-fradon-dead.html

 

Jewish Comics Library of Seattle

Jeff and Greta Treistman

https://sites.google.com/view/jewish-comics-library/home?authuser=0

 

Sierra Barnes at the Torpedo Factory

March 02, 2024

https://comicsdc.blogspot.com/2024/03/sierra-barnes-at-torpedo-factory.html

 

AIPT Comics Podcast Episode 262: Pornsak Pichetshote and Jesse Lonergan talk the adventure, the weird, and the joy in 'Man's Best'

David Brooke and Nathan Simmons

February 25, 2024

https://aiptcomics.com/2024/02/25/aipt-comics-podcast-episode-262-pichetshote/

 

Abrams Fanfare, New Children's Graphic Novel Imprint, Adds Larry Hama

Abrams Fanfare is the name of a new children's graphic novel imprint from book publisher Abrams, launching this autumn.

  01 Mar 2024 

by Rich Johnston

 https://bleedingcool.com/comics/abrams-fanfare-new-childrens-graphic-novel-imprint-adds-larry-hama/

 

Kamen, Feldstein, Seduction of the Innocent: Fox Romance at Auction

Victor Fox's romance line is largely undiscovered country compared to most comics of that era, but contains material by Kamen, Feldstein, Wood and more.

 01 Mar 2024 

by Mark Seifert

 https://bleedingcool.com/comics/kamen-feldstein-seduction-of-the-innocent-fox-romance-at-auction/

 

The Combined Best Comics & Graphic Novels of 2023!

February 24, 2024 Jamie Coville

http://jamiecoville.com/blog/blog/2024/02/24/the-combined-best-comics-graphic-novels-of-2023/

 

Don't let the stars get in your eyes [ Mike du Jour letter]

 

Michael Hoyt,

Washington Post March 2 2024

online at https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2024/03/01/trump-shoes-sports-genders-horse/

 

Rosebuds by Supr Dee Goes King Features

D. D. Degg      

https://www.dailycartoonist.com/index.php/2024/03/01/rosebuds-by-supr-dee-goes-king-features/

 

Interview : Hugues Labiano a au chaud Quelque chose de froid comme la mort

Jean-Laurent Truc

2 mars 2024

https://www.ligneclaire.info/hugues-labiano-quelque-chose-de-froid-287971.html 

 

How Sean Ono Lennon Helped His Parents Send a Message

By Ben Sisario

A version of this article appears in print on March 2, 2024, Section C, Page 1 of the New York edition with the headline: Peace and Love Get a Chance for an Oscar.

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/03/01/movies/john-lennon-yoko-ono-sean-ono-lennon-oscar.html

 

Sunday Funnies & The New Comics Kingdom – Thoughts

D. D. Degg

https://www.dailycartoonist.com/index.php/2024/03/03/sunday-funnies-the-new-comics-kingdom-thoughts/ 

 

The last Mere Quacks cartoon for the Diss Express has been drawn by its creator Mike Webb

By Kevin Hurst

17 February 2024

https://www.dissexpress.co.uk/news/after-a-51-year-association-we-bid-farewell-to-mere-quacks-9353119/

 

Gail Simone Joins the CBR X-Men Message Boards And Is Now An Article

 , 02 Mar 2024   by Rich Johnston 

https://bleedingcool.com/comics/gail-simone-joins-the-cbr-x-men-message-boards-and-is-now-an-article/

 

A perfect Sunday with...Emma Vieceli

Cavan Scott

The Cavletter Mar 3, 2024

https://www.cavletter.com/a-perfect-sunday-with-lauren-beukes-copy/

 

Maurice Vellekoop on his graphic memoir and growing up gay in a conservative household

Ayesha Rascoe

Weekend Edition Sunday March 3, 2024

https://www.npr.org/2024/03/03/1235606503/maurice-vellekoop-on-his-graphic-memoir-and-growing-up-gay-in-a-conservative-hou

https://ondemand.npr.org/anon.npr-mp3/npr/wesun/2024/03/20240303_wesun_book_im_so_glad_we_had_this_time_together_.mp3

 

12. Christopher Priest Talks Influences, Inspiration and Breaking Barriers (Pt. 1 of 3)

BJ Kicks

Feb 1 2024

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MhouMIaG2aU

 

13. Christopher Priest on Making Statements, Realism vs Escapism and Story

Comics Are Dope (The Podcast) Feb 8 2024

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=USC0ejdlEXY

 

14. Christopher Priest on Vampirella, Personal Faith & Creator Owned Comics

Feb 15 2024

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=POBzLcwWpEs

 

Words, Images, & Worlds with J Robert Deans

Jason DeHart

Mar 2 2024

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZTTHa29S1BQ

 

Words, Images, & Worlds with Greg Biga [ TwoMorrows Publishing]

  Jason DeHart

Feb 26 2024

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VNTwUDKzccg

 

Innocence of Seduction Talk-Back

  Stuart Voytilla  et al

Feb 26 2024

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xWu4OFStVqA

 

Tony Fleecs Talks Feral Sequel to Stray Dogs, Local Man and More

word balloon March 1 2024

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TBdns5EIHbI

 

How Comics Were Made: a history of newspaper cartoons from the artist's hand to newsprint page

  Glenn Fleishman

Feb 27 2024

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dJqmeAzvgGQ

 

Off Panel #438: The Uncanny X-Draft with Dave Buesing [X-Men]

By David Harper

February 26, 2024

https://sktchd.com/podcast/off-panel-438-the-uncanny-x-draft-with-dave-buesing/

https://traffic.libsyn.com/sktchd/Dave_Buesing.mp3

 

Round Table Mentor Livestream

Brigitta Blair et. al.

Round Table Mentor February 4 2024

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b1oLuQeJxjM

 

Johnston, Lynn. 2023.

AllotaBotz Book 1: The Botshop .

North Vancouver: Lynn Johnston Productions  

 

Johnston, Lynn. 2023.

AllotaBotz Book 2: Marvellous Things.

North Vancouver: Lynn Johnston Productions  

 

Johnston, Lynn. 2023.

AllotaBotz Book 3: A Dog with No Name.

North Vancouver: Lynn Johnston Productions  

Donna Lewis profiles herself on GoComics

Meet Your Creator: Donna Lewis (Reply All, Reply All Lite)

 by Donna Lewis
GoComics on December 20, 2014
http://blogs.gocomics.com/2014/12/meet-your-creator-donna-lewis-reply-all-reply-all-lite-.html

At the end, Donna buries the news that her first book will be out in February.

Donna Lewis changes syndicate to Counterpoint

DD read his Counterpoint email before I did this morning...

Donna Lewis – Reply All to Counterpoint, Reply All Lite Lost? – finding Lite update

D. D. Degg

https://www.dailycartoonist.com/index.php/2024/03/02/donna-lewis-reply-all-to-counterpoint-reply-all-lite-lost/

 

 

Donna Lewis' Reply All comic strip launches

Washington continues to be an incubator for comics strips, and they're not coming from the University of Maryland's Diamondback (Liberty Meadows, Boondocks, Watch Your Head) all the time now.

Local cartoonist Donna Lewis' Reply All comic strip will launch soon from the Washington Post Writer's Group. The strip is described as "Reply All is about those moments in today's information-overloaded environment when you forget your adult-self and toss the megaphone to your fifth-grade inner child. The strip explores the value of honesty, the power of knowledge and the impact of a bad-hair day on one's self-perception." It launches on February 28. Donna recently told me that she's reworking her earlier webcomics because she thinks her art has improved.

Congratulations, Donna! My interview with her quoted in the PR is here.

WaPo letters: Dead White men on dead white trees? Or, do readers actually read the paper?

Dead White men on dead white trees [letters on women cartoonists]

Dalal Musa and Harise Poland-Wright

Washington Post March 30 2024.

online at https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2024/03/29/fani-willis-larry-hogan-female-cartoonists/

Thanks for the March 16 Style article "Female artists are being erased from chain newspapers" on the continuing challenge of shrinking platforms for print cartoonists, especially women.

"Breaking Cat News" creator Georgia Dunn is spot on in her observation that "there are more dead men than living women in the funny pages." The Post is itself guilty of stagnating, perpetually rerunning deceased men's cartoons. Why not stop printing "Peanuts"? I understand it is an iconic comic, but all its strips are archived and easily available elsewhere. There are so many new and talented cartoonists, both women and men. It's obviously not possible to print them all, but let's make room for the new.

The newspaper is not radio or TV with indefinite time to fill and dedicated oldies channels. You've still got two pages that can easily be filled with funny and/or insightful comic strips.

Dalal Musa, Falls Church

I really miss some of the comics discussed in the Style article on the lack of female cartoonists represented in news publications and how they continue to suffer from widespread downsizing. "Rhymes With Orange" was a truly witty comic, and to remove it and continue to print something like "Reply All Lite" is just an insult if it is supposed to be about representing female authors. When "Reply All" was a full strip, it was at times amusing. The "Lite" version is a waste of valuable space. Without comics, I'd likely unsubscribe to the print edition, even though I love having a daily paper at the table to leaf through at breakfast. I know there is a full array of comics in the online version, but the format is clunky and time-consuming. Please bring back "Rhymes With Orange" if nothing else.

Harise Poland-Wright, Silver Spring

Comments:

Janet Moore:

Today's Republicans are not by any stretch of the imagination "conservatives." They are radicals, albeit of varying degrees.

Nailed it!

As for the Comics section, the first thing I look at every morning is the Comics. That makes what is left almost palatable.

A good comic strip is a reflection of life and brings a touch of humor, whimsy, or simply a smile of recognition or Ah Ha. The best are not always politically motivated. Some of the older strips being rerun often provide a glimpse that sometimes today's POV is not much different than when the strip was first run.

Yes, I can go to outside sources to find my comics, but if I am going to pay for a subscription to a newspaper, I expect to find a comics section included.

MRhode:

I'm not really sure why you published the letter from Harise Poland-Wright, Silver Spring because Rhymes with Orange is still in the paper, appearing as recently as today, something your fact checkers should have caught. I do agree that Peanuts should go, and daily Doonesbury too since they are both repeats. I really like the new Flash Gordon, but it's printed too small to read. I think the comics would benefit from being printed about an inch larger, but I realize that's too much to hope for. Some of us subscribers remember 3 full daily pages (maybe even 4?) and 2 Sunday funnies sections though.

The Reply All Blog

Donna Lewis, Washington's latest syndicated cartoonist, emailed today about her blog:

It's here.....

 

The Reply All blog (aka "In Case I Forget to Tell You Later...")  is a collection of observations based on best intentions and worst utterances.  Yes, the blog will celebrate - and satirize - the things we say, should have said and wish we had said.

 

http://www.replyallcomic.com/blog/

 

Enjoy....and comment!

 

 

"In case I forget to tell you..."

www.crazedangels.com
www.replyallcomic.com

Live chat with Donna Lewis at Post right now (and an interview)

http://live.washingtonpost.com/reply-all-cartoonist-donna-lewis.html

 

The 'Riffs Interview: Post syndicate launches Donna Lewis's 'REPLY ALL' today
By Michael Cavna
Washington Post Comic Riffs blog February 28 2011
http://voices.washingtonpost.com/comic-riffs/2011/02/the_riffs_interview_post_syndi.html

 

Donna Lewis' Reply All starts in Post on Monday

Donna Lewis' Reply All starts in the Washington Post on Monday; it's replacing Watch Your Head.

Here's the interview I did with Donna last year. I'll be asking her another set of interview questions this coming week, but she'll be on the Washington Post's chat on Monday so you can ask your own questions.

WaPo letters on comics formatting and Ellis Rosen cartoons, also Edith Pritchett

The Post published 2 letters about 2 of the 3 issues I ranted about a week ago. See the Daily Cartoonist's summary here, also because they properly identified the strip scrunched into Reply All Lite's space as an old Scary Gary strip.

The two letters are;

Monumentally confusing [Ellis Rosen]

Randy Bograd,

Washington Post May 27 2023: A15

online at https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2023/05/26/reader-critiques-cleopatra-was-not-black/

 

We got it to fit — but it wasn't fit to print

Ted White,

Washington Post May 27 2023: A15

online at https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2023/05/26/reader-critiques-cleopatra-was-not-black/

Taking them in reverse order, Ted White is a former editor of Heavy Metal who doesn't have anything nice to say about the strip and calls it usually incomprehensible and 'assembled from stock bits on a computer.' Actually, Donna Lewis DOES draw it, but on a computer. The continuing sticking point to me is that the Post STILL identifies the strip as being Reply All Lite in its credits!

The first letter is in favor of Ellis Rosen's cartoon of the relaxing Washington Monument. This past week, WaPo published 2 more of Mr. Rosen's cartoons as 'editorial' cartoons, which they are STILL not. They're gag cartoons, or pocket (if you're British). One is a grey aliens gag about being quick in an abduction to get home early. The other is a family on a game show trying to get out a door while their two small children run around.

I'm perfectly ok with the Post giving Bezos' money to Rosen - just stop calling him an editorial cartoonist and running these on the editorial page. They would be just fine on the comics page or any other page on the paper.

Speaking of semi-editorial cartoons, this piece is also listed as an editorial cartoon - it comes a bit closer if you're Entertainment Weekly, which used to publish similar material by Barry Blitt early in his career. Again, does it deserve to be on the editorial pages of the Post? I think rather Style or Weekend would be appropriate. They also did her the disservice of printing it in black and white.

Highlights from the Cannes Film Festival, even if you don't like movies [in print as The (very unofficial) guide to the Cannes Film Festival]

By Edith Pritchett

Editorial cartoonist

Washington Post May 27, 2023: A17

Online at https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2023/05/25/edith-pritchett-cartoon-cannes-film-festival/

Send a holiday e-card from Donna Lewis' forthcoming Reply All comic strip

You too can send a holiday e-card from Donna Lewis' forthcoming Reply All comic strip - click here.

WaPo doesn't understand comics 1: Today's Reply All LITE panel [CORRECTED]

 

... has the Scary Gary comic strip from May 18, 2019* squished into local cartoonist Donna Lewis' Reply All Lite's panel space. Lite only appears in the Post as far as I know, while the main strip is widely syndicated. Whoops. Lucky they don't think the comics matter anyway.

 

*Thanks to DD Degg for correctly identifying the substituted strip. In my defense, the original is only about 3" high in the actual paper.

Comics Research Bibliography citations update, 7/10/22

 

 

It's Time to Stop Living the American Scam

By Tim Kreider

New York Times July 10, 2022

online at https://www.nytimes.com/2022/07/07/opinion/work-busy-trap-millennials.html

 

The Nihilism of the Minions

By Jay Caspian Kang

 Jay Caspian Kang newsletter, for Times subscribers only. 

July 7, 2022

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/07/07/opinion/minions-movie-nihilism.html

 

With Rising Book Bans, Librarians Have Come Under Attack

By Elizabeth A. Harris and Alexandra Alter

A version of this article appears in print on July 7, 2022, Section A, Page 1 of the New York edition with the headline: As Parents Call to Ban Books, Librarians Are Cast as Criminals.

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/07/06/books/book-ban-librarians.html

 

Why We Need Bugs [in print as Save a Bug's Life]

A graphic review of two new books that explain how the world's insects came to be in peril.

By Peter Kuper

NYTBR July 10, 2022: 27

online at https://www.nytimes.com/2022/07/08/books/review/why-we-need-bugs.html

 

Where Bobbleheads Are Born

The Licensing Expo returned in person this year, where characters big and small searched for a match made in consumer heaven.

By Eve Peyser

A version of this article appears in print on July 10, 2022, Section ST, Page 2 of the New York edition with the headline: Where Bobbleheads Are Born.

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/07/08/style/where-bobbleheads-are-born.html

 

How's this for a reply-all? [Reply All Lite letter]

Mary E. Worstell, Washington

Washington Post July 9 2022 pA15

online at https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2022/07

 

One big domino was missing [de Adder letter]

Lawrence M. Spillan,

William "Billy" Eric Sahm,

Washington Post July 9 2022 pA15

online at https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2022/07

 

How Christian Bale became one of the great superhero movie villains [in print as Christian Bale: So good at being so bad]

'You can in some ways understand where he came from,' Bale says of his role as Gorr the God Butcher in the new movie 'Thor: Love and Thunder'

By David Betancourt

Washington Post July 9, 2022 : C1, 4

online at https://www.washingtonpost.com/comics/2022/07/07/christian-bale-gorr-thor-love-thunder/

 

Tucson man now author of longtime comic strip [Henry Barajas , Gil Thorp]

Diana Ramos

Arizona Daily Star July 10, 2022

https://tucson.com/news/local/subscriber/tucson-man-now-author-of-longtime-comic-strip/article_bfac77c2-fe58-11ec-8bf9-9b9979814e95.html

 

Wide World of Disney

"We went to Disney World not out of some ironic feeling for Disney and what Disney represents but because we wanted to ride Space Mountain."

By Akhil Sharma

July 4, 2022, July 11 & 18, 2022 Issue

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2022/07/11/wide-world-of-disneyrom

 

Book review: Anatomy of Comics: Famous Originals of Narrative Art

Reviewed by Cord Scott, UMGC-Okinawa

International Journal of Comic Art blog July 10, 2022

https://ijoca.blogspot.com/2022/07/book-review-anatomy-of-comics-famous.html

 

Damien MacDonald. Anatomy of Comics: Famous Originals of Narrative Art. Flammarion, 2022.

 

Ted Anderson Shares the Story of The Spy Who Raised Me | New Graphic Novel from Graphic Universe

The Lerner Podcast March 15 2021

https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/ted-anderson-shares-story-spy-who-raised-me-new-graphic/id1458150286?i=1000513179434

 

The Spy Who Raised Me: An Interview with Author Ted Anderson

https://lernerbooks.blog/2021/04/the-spy-who-raised-me-an-interview-with-author-ted-anderson.html

 

Ted Anderson

https://lernerbooks.com/contributors/15629

 

A Chat with Ted Anderson: Meet a Cartoonist Visiting DC for the ALA Annual Meeting

by Mike Rhode

ComicsDC blog July 10, 2022

https://comicsdc.blogspot.com/2022/07/a-chat-with-ted-anderson-meet.html

 

It's Not My Fault: Confessions of a Comics Junkie - R.C. Harvey's autobiographical essay from 2005

International Journal of Comic Art blog July 11, 2022

https://ijoca.blogspot.com/2022/07/its-not-my-fault-confessions-of-comics.html

 

reprinting

 

 It's Not My Fault

Confessions of a Comics Junkie. Or, How I Became a

Crazed Fanatic About Cartooning, Its History and Lore

R.C.Harvey

IJOCA 7-2 (Fall / Winter 2005)

Reply All Lite followup

I checked in with Amy Lago of the Washington Post Writers Group syndicate about Reply All Lite, after asking creator Donna Lewis about it the other day.

She says, "Lite has more of an online presence at this point.  The only place it's running in print is the Washington Post.  Panels are notoriously harder to sell (because papers tend to run fewer), so that's no surprise.  Our thought at the Writers Group was that Donna was creating them anyway, so why not try to syndicate them?  And judging by their popularity online, it was the right move.  I'm just not sure printed papers will catch on, though I'm thrilled the Post likes them."

Amy also says "I can't think of anyone else who's done two different versions of the same strip at the same time either," but D Heine has suggested Joe Martin's Mr. Boffo.

The Post changes 3 comic strips

Loose Parts by Dave Blazek started in today's Washington Post (June 1), bumping Donna Lewis' Reply All strip to her single panel Reply All Lite, which in turn pushed the panel Close to Home by John McPherson completely out of the paper.

Quarantining Coronavirus through Comics at MSU's Comic Art Collection

by Mike Rhode

Like many of us, Michigan State University librarian Randy Scott was sent to work from home when covid-19 began shutting down schools and libraries across the country. To be able to work from home, he had to get creative, since he couldn't take parts of the Comic Art Collection home with him. Scott began clipping comic strips from the Lansing, MI papers that dealt with coronavirus and setting up new subject headings in the collection's Reading Room Index (RRI).

When I checked in with him, and heard that he was doing this, I began sending the daily Washington Post comics pages (I'd been sending the Sundays for years, continuing what crack comics historian Ian Gordon had begun years ago). He's picked coronavirus as his main subject heading, noting "The first mention of the coronavirus (covid 19) pandemic appeared in this collection in the February 13, 2020 episode of Prickly City. Newspaper strips are added here when 5 examples of a title with pandemic-related content are located, clipped and filed in the Library's collection." As of today, he's collected about 600 strips, 400 of which are in the RRI, and 200 waiting to be added.

Strips he's collected include:

• Arlo & Janis (starting Mar. 30, 2020)
• Baldo (starting Apr. 4, 2020)
• Barney and Clyde (starting Mar. 4, 2020)
• Blondie (starting May 7, 2020)
• Brevity (starting Apr. 7, 2020)
• Brewster Rockit: Space Guy! (starting Apr. 6, 2020)
• Candorville (starting Mar. 23, 2020)
• Curtis (starting Mar. 30, 2020)
• Dilbert (starting Apr. 20, 2020)
• Family Circus (starting Apr. 15, 2020)
• Frank and Ernest (starting Mar. 13, 2020)
• Frazz (starting Apr. 18, 2020)
• Lio (starting Mar. 30, 2020)
• Non Sequitur (starting Mar. 9, 2020)
• Off the Mark (starting Apr. 6, 2020)
• On the Fastrack (starting Apr. 13, 2020)
• Pearls Before Swine (starting Apr. 6, 2020)
• Prickly City (starting Feb. 13, 2020)
• Reply All Lite (starting Mar. 30, 2020)
• Sally Forth (starting Apr. 13, 2020)
• Speed Bump (starting Apr. 27, 2020)

New and newly significant related topics include:

• Contagion  
• Covid 19 
• Hand Sanitizer
• Hand Washing
• Hazmat Suits
• Hoarding
• Home Schooling
• Lockdowns
• New Normal
• Quarantine
• Reopening
• Shaking Hands
• Social Distancing
• Staying Home
• Surgical Masks
• Toilet Paper
• Vaccines
• Working from Home
• Zoom

 A typical entry for a Washington, DC-based cartoonist looks like this:

Social Distancing. 
   "Boo Cat Lives and Breathes Social Distancing" (Reply All
   Lite, Apr. 26, 2020) / by Donna A. Lewis. -- Call no.:
   oversize PN6726.S79 Apr. 26, 2020 

Special collections work over the long run and most of this collection probably won't be of interest to users for a few years, and then again after a few decades, most likely for the fiftieth anniversary of the pandemic. But just a cautionary note for those who think they can find everything on the web... this Chris Ware strip from the New York Times from April 26, 2020, has disappeared from the Times' website (and Randy would like a tearsheet if you have it).

Picture from Twitter