1 year ago
55 Autumn and wintertime are my favourite seasons, but they travel with 1 large downside: getting sick. As an experienced shut-in, I don’t brushwood excessively galore germs, but I bash get sick sometimes, including connected the October time erstwhile I had to travel up with a taxable for this article: aft implicit 2 and a fractional years of successfully dodging COVID, it yet got me.
Fortunately, I didn’t get it that bad, but it did marque maine deliberation astir what comics mightiness beryllium astir fitting for idiosyncratic who is nether the weather. Some radical similar to work astir characters with troubles akin to their own. Others similar axenic escapism that allows them to hide astir their existent discomfort. So, aft soliciting suggestions from my chap Rioters, I divided this database into 2 sections, positive a concealed 3rd one, to accommodate each benignant of reader. No substance what benignant of a diligent you are, I anticipation you volition find thing to amuse you below.
If you aren’t presently ill, you tin inactive bask these comics, of course. You tin besides instrumentality steps to support yourself and others. Get your flu shots and Covid boosters! Wear your masks! Stay location if you’re sick! (If you can: I cognize immoderate employers aren’t truthful knowing astir that, successful which case, unionize!) And if you cognize idiosyncratic who doesn’t consciousness well, bring them 1 of these comics — I’m definite they’d admit it.
Comics About Sickness and Being Sick
Fever Year: The Killer Flu of 1918 by Don Brown
By now, you’ve astir apt heard a 1000 radical comparing the COVID-19 pandemic to the planetary flu pandemic of 1918. This comic, written earlier astir of america had ever heard of a coronavirus, digs heavy into however the deadly flu dispersed done America — conscionable arsenic U.S. troops were heading disconnected to Europe to combat successful World War I, bringing the illness with them. While this is simply a nonfiction comic, it is each spot arsenic gripping and affectional arsenic immoderate enactment of fiction.
Everything is OK by Debbie Tung
When you’re sick — either physically oregon mentally — it tin look similar you’ll beryllium stuck feeling atrocious everlastingly and that things volition ne'er improve. This publication reassures you that is not the case. Recovery whitethorn not beryllium easy, arsenic Tung acknowledges arsenic she relates her battles with anxiousness and depression, but that doesn’t mean it’s impossible. Even if you person the benignant of unwellness that ne'er afloat goes away, you tin inactive pb a worthwhile and satisfying life.
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Allergic by Megan Wagner Lloyd and Michelle Mee Nutter
If you person allergies, you cognize that they tin marque you consciousness truly rotten erstwhile each you privation to bash is spell retired and bask immoderate bully upwind oregon beauteous flowers. For 10 twelvemonth aged Maggie, that lousy feeling is compounded by the information that she is allergic to dogs, cats, and each different cutesy carnal she wants for a pet! With her parents and her brothers preoccupied with different things, tin Maggie find the cleanable carnal companion — 1 that won’t marque her interruption retired successful hives?
The Truth astir Stacey by Ann M. Martin and Raina Telgemeier
Diabetes is simply a antithetic benignant of unwellness than the ones I had successful caput erstwhile readying this article, but this comic — portion of the Baby-Sitters Club graphic caller adaptation bid — has plentifulness to accidental astir however an unwellness and disablement tin impact your beingness and relationships. Stacey is the caller miss successful town, and connected apical of that, she’s conscionable been diagnosed with diabetes. Her unwellness often causes her to miss schoolhouse and consciousness similar she’s falling down her peers. Can her caller friends with the Baby-Sitters Club assistance her cope?
Comics That Have Nothing to Do with Being Sick
Check, Please! Book 1: #Hockey by Ngozi Ukazu
This wins for being perfectly delightful and filling you with conscionable the astir beauteous psyche hugging vibes. It besides reads arsenic good if you privation thing to absorption connected and look astatine each the details successful the inheritance of the illustrations, oregon can’t truly absorption and are skimming the substance and pursuing the illustrations for story. You don’t person to similar — and tin adjacent hatred — hockey, and you’ll inactive emotion this graphic novel. Bonus: If you’ve already work it and are feeling nether the weather, it’s a large two-book bid to curl backmost up with.
—Jamie Canavés
The Tea Dragon Society by K. O’Neill
When you’re sick, you request thing lukewarm and comforting. Like soup. Or tea. Or the sweetest, gentlest small graphic caller bid ever written. This is simply a mediate people comic, truthful it’s an casual read, but the illustrations are perfectly gorgeous and often person ornate borders and different details, which makes it the cleanable campaigner for spacing retired and staring astatine portion you enactment up the spot to crook the page. Personally, I find looking astatine Tea Dragons precise comforting erstwhile I’m not feeling well, and the absorption connected friendship, care, patience, and emotion should marque you consciousness each lukewarm and fuzzy inside.
—Danika Ellis
Superman Smashes the Klan by Gene Luen Yang and Gurihiru
Okay, but perceive maine out. As a superhero fan, thing comforts maine much than seeing the bully guys hitch the level with the atrocious guys, particularly erstwhile the atrocious guys really merit it. You aren’t apt to find a atrocious feline who deserves it much than a Klansman, and you aren’t apt to find a much upstanding leader than Superman. This graphic caller is aimed astatine a younger audience, truthful it’s easier to digest, and determination is cute creation with agleam colors that tin support your attraction erstwhile it’s hard to focus. Best of all, it has a soothing yet almighty connection astir the value of being yourself and lasting up for what you cognize is right.
And One That’s Kind of Both!
Hyperbole and a Half by Allie Brosh
All done college, I work Allie Brosh’s blog Hyperbole and a Half religiously. It was hilarious and moving and comforting similar thing I had ever consumed before. You’ll beryllium unsurprised to perceive that I was ecstatic erstwhile her publication was announced, and it (as good arsenic her 2nd book, Solutions and Other Problems) perfectly delivered. It’s everything I loved from the blog, lone better, due to the fact that present I tin clasp it successful my hands! From ridiculous canine shenanigans that volition marque you outcry laughing to earthy discussions of intelligence wellness struggles that volition marque you conscionable cry, these comics some battalion a punch and consciousness similar a tight, reassuring hug each astatine the aforesaid time. Whether you request thing to cheer you up, oregon thing to level with you and marque you consciousness seen, Hyperbole and a Half is casual to leafage done to sojourn and revisit immoderate types of stories you request successful a fixed moment. And if those MS Paint illustrations don’t springiness you immoderate benignant of warm, nostalgic feeling, I don’t cognize what will!”
—Patricia Thang
For much sick time reads, cheque retired the best books to work earlier and aft surgery, oregon possibly these books astir medicine!
