Day: December 6, 2020

What Are You Reading? | ‘King in Black,’ ‘Department of Truth’ and more

See what the Smash Pages crew has been reading lately.

Welcome to What Are You Reading?, our weekly look at what the Smash Pages crew has been reading lately. In this edition, we talk about King in Black, X-Factor, James Tynion IV and more.

Let us know what you read this week in the comments or on social media.

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Sunday Comics | Two pandemics, giving thanks and worst-seller lists

Check out recent comics from Whit Taylor, Eleanor Davis, Josh Neufeld, Ben Katchor and Alejandro Bruzzese.

Here’s a round up of some of the best comics we’ve seen online recently. If we missed something, let us know in the comments below.

We’ll start this week with a new comic from Josh Neufeld, creator of A. D.: New Orleans After the Deluge, whose comics have also appeared everywhere from The Nib to the Boston Globe. He creates a comic for Journalist’s Resource on the topic of the day, COVID-19, titled “A tale of two pandemics: A nonfiction comic about historical racial health disparities.”

It highlights a recently released research article on racial health disparities and the spread of misinformation during the coronavirus pandemic and the 1918 influenza pandemic, spotlighting the three researchers who published the article.

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