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Sanity for Humanity in a Calamity
A Cartoon Journey of Our First Year through COVID-19
A comedic, illustrated, and unapologetic memoir to look back and remember our first unprecedented year of COVID-19 in a different light.
Take a Look Inside the Book
What's the book all about?
Yes, there were challenges, and there were also triumphs to be celebrated. This book surely doesn't forget those. Along with each cartoon, comes a time-stamped reflection of whatever was flipping the world on its head that day. Some snapshots are happy. Some are sad. Some are hilarious. Summed up, it's truly a diary of the coronavirus that everyone can relate to.
Everyone's coping mechanism was different. Mine happened to be cartoons. As abruptly as our world came to a screeching halt, my foray back into drawing began. Art has always been my passion, but life got in the way for a decade.
To bring some humor and for my own therapy, I began cartooning in lockstep with the world changing daily. With nearly every week of the pandemic changing our cultural norms, I continued chronicling our evolution as a society. After sharing a few cartoons on social media and getting such a great response and momentum, the collection started to build.
Here we are, our first year of COVID-19 over, and I'm ready to share them with the world. Keep this book on your coffee table, in the bathroom, or as a guidebook for the next (year of this) pandemic. A keepsake with perspective that all adults won't soon forget.
Original Poetry by Jon Bowerman
What a Grand Soul You Were Meant to Be
What a grand soul you were meant to be,
Pushed down the only path they could see.
In all its glory, the picture they wrote for your world,
Was not how your story, was meant to be, forever told.
You read the script, the costume fit,
So you played your part,
Climbing over sensitive to be numb,
Number one role model from the start,
Finding protection on the podium,
Muting the soundtrack in your heart.
What served you then, has always been,
Not a film, but theater to experience once,
And never again.
As knuckles shift from white to red,
Feel your grip on performance release,
Not through your hands of creation,
But in your head.
Taught pride cometh before the fall,
You learned to blend in,
You grew large enough to feel small.
What was to be, is now,
Stand with humility, but take a bow.
Age your future expectations,
You live in the present,
You are enough to be loved,
If all you brought was presence.
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