Comic Walk - Katie Lavey

A 5 panel single strip comic of a person sitting at an outdoor coffee shop table working on a laptop. They look up and put on their mask. A person walks by and in the final panel they continue working, now wearing a mask.

A man looks at the outline of a building, and all the rooms are different apps or website. He's about to walk into the maze, or log online, and start his day.  A commentary on how COVID put our entire lives online.

Two men are washing red solo cups, and one asks, "Are you sure this helps?" and the other says, "Yeah definitely, we all need to do our part in stopping the spread." Then the walk into a room where a party is in full swing, and they say, "They're clean!"

Parents a taking a photo of their child in the dorm room, and the next panel shows the same woman with parents taking her picture as she's wearing her cap and gown and graduating. The speech bubble above the two panels smashes together the parents saying "Welcome to college!" and "I can't believe you're graduating college" to say above the two panels, "Welcome to … Graduating college"

Two people, one holding all their groceries. The other says, "Wow, stocking up?" and the other says "Yes, there's a winter storm coming so I went to the store to prepare. As I was in the store it was crazy, all the shelves were wiped, I think every person in Boulder was preparing." The other person opens the trunk of their car to help bring the groceries and says, "Wait what -- which store were the shelves empty?" In the next panel we see that the back of the car is full of alcohol. The other person responds that the store they went to that was wiped was, "Hazel's!"

Woman is sitting at the table, bored. She sighs and gets up to go make food. In the kitchen she cooks her food for two panels, and then brings it back to where she started. She eats, and sits on her phone. She looks up and says "Oh!" then leans forward and says, "Thank you professor!" In the next panel she is closing her laptop as the professor says, "Let me know if you have any issues with the homework".

In the first panel we see a tentative skier, starting off with her buddy. Her friends skies off and she started to go down the hill. The following 7 frames are her falling and crashing in various ways. Flipping over a fence, flying headfirst into the snow, accidentally going down a black diamond and more, She's having a rough day. But, somehow at the bottom, the two skiers are in the car and our main character asks if their friend would like to go at the same time next week.

Four panels show news hosts documenting several of Boulder's recent tragedies: The wildfires, the gunman holding people hostage in a hair salon, the deaths of our unhoused neighbors rising, and the shooting at the king soopers. In the middle, in a wide panel is a person sitting on a ledge looking out at a huge expanse of beautiful Boulder sunset and mountains (this is based on the lookout point down South broadway, past the weird gas station). They are looking out at this beautiful place, reflecting upon these things. Some comes up and sits next to them and holds their hand. Community support is the only way to keep going.

Two people on a masked first date introduce themselves: Mosaic collection of single panels depicting moments from the first quarantine. An empty toilet paper roll; an old woman alone in her room looking out her window; an amazon worker taking break leaning against his truck overflowing with packages; a woman doing an at home workout on the floor of her bedroom; two men socially distanced costing in a park, their blankets six feet from each other; someone cuts their own hair in the mirror; a skype interviewee says hello in her suit coat, with sweatpants on the bottom; Joe exotic; a zoom call of 12; a family drops off a basket in the doorstep of elderly parents and waves through a window.