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1 Liew won Best Writer/Artist, Best Publication Design, and Best U.S. Edition of International material-Asia in the 29th Will Eisner Comic Industry Awards.
2 See Charissa Yong’s (Citation2015) report in The Straits Times.
3 In the last panels, Doctor Duck uses the conjunctive adverbs “on the one hand … on the other hand” to compare SARS with COVID. In the next panel, he immediately proclaims that “I blame anthropomorphism” in response to Baffled Bunny’s question about “Why are there always so many hands?” There is also a tendency to anthropomorphize COVID-19 in the visual media. See Neda Ulaby’s (Citation2020) NPR report.
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Pin-chia Feng
Pin-chia Feng is National Endowed Chair of Humanities (2019-) appointed by the Ministry of Education (MOE) and Lifetime Chair Professor of the Department of Foreign Languages and Literatures at National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University (NYCU, formerly National Chiao Tung University, NCTU). Currently, she is also the director of NYCU’s Asian American Studies Research Center and Interdisciplinary Medical Humanities Research Center. She writes on issues of gender, race, and politics of representation in films, graphic narratives, medical humanities, as well as in Asian American, African American, and Afro-Caribbean literatures.