When the “RKI protocols” are being analyzed these days and the political decisions during the pandemic have to prove their plausibility once again, this is an opportunity to remember another side of the Corona complex: the widespread mistrust in publicly shared communication and its rationality, the rapidly increasing influence of conspiracy myths of all kinds. Human tragedies were often behind this crisis of reality, and many families were torn apart by it. Now the comic artist Ika Sperling, born in a village in Rhineland-Palatinate in 1996, has found images for these conflicts. Her debut “The Great Reset” tells the story of a father who believes in compulsory vaccinations, a climate dictatorship and a Jewish world conspiracy and is already determined to emigrate. The graphic novel shows him as an intangible being, a water-filled bubble about to leak. Sperling, who now lives as a freelance illustrator in Hamburg, received the Hamburg Literature Prize in the comic category for “The Great Reset”.
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