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This cartoon is really different from my usual stuff. I don’t do observational or current affairs or satirical cartoons or anything like that. My cartoons are almost exclusively bits of wordplay or surreal puns. My process is normally just: things pop into my head. I wait for the ideas to come to me. It’s a passive system. So the events of 2020 aren’t really affecting my work that much. I did one cartoon in the early days of the lockdown where a murmuration was just one bird on its own, in social isolation, but that’s quite unusual. Mostly I’m in my own little world and that’s where my ideas come from. … [Read more...] about Sketches from a trying year: 10 cartoonists reflect on 2020

On August 7, her condition continued to deteriorate and she was intubated. She was treated with continuous renal replacement therapy (CCRT) to filter her blood, along with ECMO (extracorporeal membrane oxygenation), the artificial heart-lung machine.  … [Read more...] about 11th COVID-19 patient in Việt Nam dies

The 29-year-old Patient 832 and 37-year-old Patient 833 in Quảng Trị Province were identified as first-hand contacts with Patient 750, who had an extensive travel history in the province’s Đông Hà City.   … [Read more...] about 29 new COVID-19 cases reported, including a seven-year-old

Trifle: Fans of Friends will remember the Thanksgiving episode in which Rachel decided to make the British dessert usually containing fruit, sponge fingers and custard. … [Read more...] about From tea to fish and chips. Americans shock Brits by butchering staples from our great menu

JEJU CITY — “Please turn off all the flashlights,” Ki Jin-seok, a curator of Jeju World Natural Heritage Centre, said during a press tour of a restricted section of Manjanggul. Unlike the section of the cave that is open to the public, this area does not have a single light installed. The cave soon became pitch dark. … [Read more...] about Jeju’s UNESCO heritage cave to open up for 17 days