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Comics will salute essential workers by hiding symbols in their Sunday strips
https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2020/06/01/coronavirus-live-updates-us/#link-63CKIVTPRVA4PFQL2CEINCT7Z4Dave Blazek’s job is to make you forget life for a few seconds and laugh. Through his syndicated comic, “Loose Parts,” he offers quirky observations and absurd scenarios — but lately, a pressing question has popped into his personal thought balloons as a daily gag cartoonist: Should he let “the new normal” of pandemic life in 2020 invade his strip’s silly, sealed-off world?
“I just decided to not address it in ‘Loose Parts,’ ” Blazek said.
Instead, Blazek is among at least 70 cartoonists who plan to pay visual tribute to first responders and other essential workers in their print and online color art on Sunday. The coordinated “cartoon gratitude” campaign will feature a handful of icons embedded into the strips.
Read more here:
https://www.washingtonpost.com/arts-entertainment/2020/06/01/cartoons-essential-workers-loose-parts-dave-blazek/