Comics have always responded to pandemics/catastrophes, documenting the way we deal with such crises. Recently, graphic medicine, an interdisciplinary field of comics and medicine, has been curating comics, editorial cartoons, autobiographical cartoons, and social media posts under the heading "COVID-19 Comics" on their websites. These collected comics express what we propose to call covidity, a neologism that captures both individual and collective philosophical, material, and wide-ranging emotional responses to the COVID-19 pandemic. Treating such comics as the source material and drawing insights from theorists Ian Williams, Alan Bleakley, Susan Sontag, and others, this article examines graphic medicine's representation of the COVID-19 pandemic. The conceptual metaphors of war, anthropomorphism, and superheroism are used to represent and illustrate the lived experience of the pandemic, and the article investigates metaphor types, their utility, and motivational triggers for such representations. In doing so, the essay situates graphic medicine as a productive site that presents the pandemic's multifarious impact.

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大流行时期的漫画：COVID-19，图形医学和隐喻。

漫画总是对流行病/灾难做出反应，记录了我们应对此类危机的方式。最近，图形医学是漫画和医学的一个跨学科领域，一直在其网站上以“ COVID-19漫画”为标题来策划漫画，社论漫画，自传漫画和社交媒体帖子。这些收集的漫画表达了我们提议的所谓covidity，这是一种新词，涵盖了个人和集体对COVID-19大流行的哲学，物质和广泛的情感反应。本文将此类漫画视为原始资料，并从理论家伊恩·威廉姆斯，艾伦·布莱克利，苏珊·桑塔格等人那里得出见识，本文研究了图形医学对COVID-19大流行的描述。战争的概念隐喻，拟人化，和超级英雄主义被用来代表和说明大流行的现实经验，本文研究了隐喻的类型，它们的效用以及引起这种现象的动机。在这样做的过程中，本文将图形医学定位为展示大流行病多种影响的生产性场所。