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Utah artists create epidemic-based ‘Quaranzine’ comic anthology Profits of sale benefit Utah Tribal COVID-19 Relief Fund
epidemic. starting at $1 for the digital version and $5 for the physical one — though For obvious reasons, Gambles said people purchasing them can donate as much as they wish beyond that. All of the that he hopes there is never a need to profits go to the Utah Tribal COVID-19 release a second volume. Relief Fund, which benefits the state’s —— Nick Gonzales indigenous communities hit hard by the
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»» The first page of Spencer Holt’s post-apoca-
featuring comics united by the theme of life in lyptic quarantine comic. quarantine.
The more ambitious among us (and we use the term “us” in the very loosest sense) used the COVID-19 quarantine to pick up new skills or start hobbies and projects. One that caught on was making of “quaranzines,” little magazines about life during the pandemic.
“It’s a comic anthology wherein each creator was asked to create a one- to four-page comic that is, like, whatever they think of as coming from the word ‘quarantine.’ Some of them were more like autobio, and like more serious in nature or tone. Some of them were just completely made up and or humorous. They ran the gamut,” he said.
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All said, the compilation contains the work of 14 artists. Gambles’ contriThis is exactly what’s been going on on bution follows a couple that is forced the other side of the state line. (No ... the to quarantine within a haunted house, *other* state line). while his creative partner Holt’s segment documents a post-apocalyptic trip A couple of years ago, D. Bradford to the nearest gas station for supplies. Gambles and Spencer Holt formed the Our personal favorite, though, is Angie “Utah Indie Comic Creators” Facebook Sandberg’s simple guide, “What is your group to bring together artists who do comics, mostly in the Salt Lake and Utah mask saying?” Valley area, Gambles said. When the The completed 44-page, 5.5 inch by virus put an end to the group’s weekly 8.5 inch black and white comic is availdraw night and canceled the area’s small able at gumroad.com/utahquaranzine,
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Anyone can make them — NPR even put together a how-to guide — but naturally, if you’re, say, a comic artist, yours is going to end up better than everyone else’s. And if you group up with a bunch of other artists to make an anthology, you’re going to end up with a cool artifact of the pandemic.
press festivals, they came up with their own “Quaranzine” as a project for everyone to work on instead. The end product debuted last month.
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