Alumnus shares public health messages through comic illustrations
“Reflections” tells the story of Ithaca’s typhoid epidemic of 1903. Levy originally created the comic as a class project for a Society for the Humanities seminar; this year, he expanded it, tying it to the COVID pandemic and telling it from the viewpoint of Theodore Zinck, a character well known in Cornell folklore. Alumnus shares public health messages through comic illustrations April 5, 2021 What began as a class project exploring a fraught period of Ithaca history has transformed into a COVID-related comic that Leo Levy ’20, hopes can reach people with a lesson from the past and...