“Humor is very good at breaking the tension, humor is good in stressful times,” said Marty Dundics, CEO and Editor-in-Chief of the Weekly Humorist.
Cartoonists around the country are making a point of making people laugh about the coronavirus at a time when many Americans are feeling anxiety and fear.
“Jokes about working from home, jokes about having kids always around you. Jokes about having to wash your hand all the time, or touching your face,” he said. “There’s humor to be found there. So it’s about finding that stuff and trying to relieve the stress in those ways.” “I think it’s depressing and I think we’ve had enough of depressing,” he said. “I think we need to laugh. We need to take precautions but let’s laugh at this too.”Jessica Olien, a Brooklyn-based cartoonist who also contributes cartoons to the New Yorker, says that finding humor during a serious pandemic is possible if cartoonists focus on the universal truths of the situation.
Dundics says since the coronavirus hit the U.S., many of the submissions he received even a month ago are no longer relevant.
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