Picture an angry little ball, covered in spikes, perhaps equipped with arms and legs, and definitely an evil grin. That’s how cartoonists and animators are anthropomorphizing Covid-19. Which seems to make the coronavirus unique in our long history of anthropomorphizing diseases. “What’s been remarkable about Covid-19 is from the beginning, we had a visual of the pathogen,” says MK Czerwiec, a nurse, artist and scholar of cartoons and health . That means, she says, that cartoons of the virus are somewhat accurate, at least compared to the ways we pictured diseases in the past. A lot of the early anthropomorphizations are less about disease and more about pain. Like little dogs biting our feet for gout, for example. – Jared Gardner Back when we first started imagining disease visually, people didn’t even really know what disease was. It was invisible, supernatural, terrifying. So they used representations of illness and death that made sense at the time, such as the Grim Reaper. “Little
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