Novel Corona King
8” x 10”
Graphite & colored pencil
$1000
Look at POTUS Make America Great Again. A picture is worth a thousand words. And words matter. I drew this editorial cartoon to capture my sense that every sentence the current occupant said about the coronavirus just further facilitated its spread. So I depicted him standing “Novel Corona King” at his corona podium in front his corona throne wearing his corona crown spewing the coronavirus. “We have it totally under control. It’s one person coming in from China, and we have it under control. It’s going to be just fine” (Jan. 22 CNBC interview ) ”Looks like by April, you know, in theory, when it gets a little warmer, it miraculously goes away” (Feb. 10 New Hampshire rally) “The Coronavirus is very much under control in the USA. … Stock Market starting to look very good to me!” (Feb. 24 Twitter) “It’s going to disappear. One day, it’s like a miracle, it will disappear.” (Feb. 27 News conference). “I think the 3.4 percent [fatality rate] is really a false number” (March 4 Fox News interview) “I felt it was a pandemic long before it was called a pandemic” (Mar 17 News conference). As of July 22nd, 2020: in the US , total 3,893,700 tested positive for Covid-19 and of those 141,700 people have died. That results in a 3.64% fatality rate … so far. This has also been published in an essay by Marta Hanson, “From Sick Man of Asia to Sick Uncle Sam,” Current History (forthcoming Sept 2020).