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Patrick Chappatte: COVID-19 A visual take on the Covid-19 pandemic

September 14, 2020 / Patrick Chappatte

© Chappatte, Le Temps, Switzerland
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Patrick Chappatte is an editorial cartoonist for the German magazine Der Spiegel, as well as for Swiss newspapers Le Temps and NZZ am Sonntag. In France, he contributes to Le Canard Enchaîné. For 20 years, he was a cartoonist for the International Herald Tribune and The New York Times. He is also a pioneer of graphic journalism, or comics journalism, and has developed collaborative projects promoting cartooning as a tool of dialogue all over the world.

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