Kathiuska

Rescue Party

One page in the lockdown-comics anthology.

Format
Comic anthology
Year
2024
Publisher
Pantheon
Catalina Vásquez’s comic on page 54 of Rescue Party
Rescue Party, p. 54 · Catalina’s comic is on the left.

About

More than 140 artists from 50 countries recorded the first days of the pandemic. My page follows lockdown’s swings: the anxiety, time stretching out, and the hope that keeps us moving.

The New Yorker

The comic

4 images

Comic panel of an elongated pink-faced figure with outstretched arms
Nine-panel comic with pink-faced figures and changing bodily poses
Printed comic detail with a pink face and Kathiuska credit below
Comic panel with a fragmented pink face and handwritten narration

The anthology

5 images

Printed Rescue Party anthology cover photographed on a woven surface
Rescue Party introduction page framed by a blue illustrated border
Rescue Party title spread with a blue endpaper and publication details
Angled photograph of the printed comic's upper panels
Rescue Party back cover with text inside a circular panel

Press

  • Featured in The New Yorker, What Cartoonists Saw in Isolation

Credits

Page
Catalina Vásquez
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