![]() ![]() ![]() Other stories appeared, too: “Harvey Weinstein Sentenced,” “Ruth Bader Ginsburg Hospitalized,” “China Extends Control over Hong Kong,” and-on repeat-“Stock Market Plunges.” Day by day, Engler drew every shocking turn of the year: the police murder of George Floyd and protests around the globe a war against science and those who preached it fires consuming California a vicious election, absurdly contested. Was there ever such a year? Headlines about the death of Kobe Bryant and Donald Trump's impeachment began to give way to news of a mysterious virus in China, and Engler’s pages were quickly filled with the march of COVID-19: schools closing their doors, hospitals overflowing, graveyards full to capacity. ![]() But when Donald Trump was elected, the headlines turned too wild for her to stop the experiment. The idea was to create a pictorial record of one year of listening to the news. An extraordinary illustrated chronicle of 2020 that captures this indelible year in America in all its tragic, surreal, epic, and (sometimes) comedic intensityĪrtist Elise Engler set herself a task five years ago: to illustrate the first headline she heard on her bedside radio every morning. ![]()
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