Rescue Party - Edited by Gabe Fowler

Rescue Party: A Graphic Anthology of COVID Lockdown, compiled by Gabe Fowler of Desert Island Comics / 192-page hardback, 8.75 x 11.25 inches, published in 2024 by Pantheon Graphic Library / ISBN 9780593316801 *** "An ode to the power of art and comics to capture a moment and to crystallize the wish for a better world."—Françoise Mouly, The New Yorker More than 140 single-page comics from artists the world over, documenting humanity’s retreat into COVID-19 lockdown and imagining our eventual, boisterous reemergence, gathered by the founder of the annual Comic Arts Brooklyn festival and owner of the beloved indie comics shop Desert Island On April 1, 2020, the Instagram account of Desert Island, Brooklyn’s celebrated alternative comics shop, put out a call. By then Desert Island had been shuttered indefinitely, and cities all over the world had been locked down as the first wave of the COVID-19 pandemic took hold. “We all need something positive to think about, and a lot of us have time