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Quarantine Cartoons by Marie Gilot

Marie Gilot spends her quarantine in New York City and posts her drawings and sci-fi shorts on Medium. 

She wears her mask and so should you, you big baby.

Cartoon caption: Watching quarantine Tik Tok, I realized that dogs have much better emotional skills than I do
Cartoon caption: The story of my quarantine in 3 YouTube recommendations. The images are one video of Governor Cuomo delivering a virus update, how to make French baguettes at home, and The Weeknd - Blinding Lights - 10 hours loop version
Cartoon caption: Day 70 I sprayed a big fly and his violent thrashing death was legitimately upsetting
Cartoon caption: I found a ridiculous item from the 'beforetimes' and I wondered, are we ever going to be cute again? The image is of a woman wearing a mask looking at a single animal print high heel
Cartoon caption: Day 59 Crack open a window and wait for the murder hornets. The image is of a woman lying upside down across a couch
Cartoon caption: Ready for the COVID summer. The image is of two shirtless tanned men with pale skin where their masks would be.
Cartoon caption: Wong-Baker faces pain rating scale (COVID edition) showing faces getting progressively more upset, with the final numbers as Quarantine Little Bit, Quarantine even more, and a final image where all the features have escaped the face, and labeled 'Quarantine Worst'
Cartoon caption: I dreamed that the monkey that attacked the Indian lab technician and stole his coronavirus blood samples found a cure. The image shows monkeys with lab coats and vials working on a cure.
Cartoon caption: I dreamed that we had an intervention for Corey Feldman because he wasn't wearing his mask properly.
Cartoon caption: My 7pm friends. The image is of a series of buildings with labels pointing 'this person bangs on pots and pans', 'someone plays Bonnie Tyler over yonder', and 'This kid just screams'
Cartoon caption: Every day is small, every day is the same, wait until dark and thread it with the others on your terrible terrible quarantine necklace
Cartoon caption: Reopening phase 1: what am I even supposed to do outside? The image is of a woman sitting on a foldaway exercise bicycle
Cartoon caption: last night I dreamed that we had our morning meeting inside Macy's on 34th Street
Cartoon caption: My quarantine exploration of American doomsday meats came to an abrupt end with the dreaded olive loaf (My nemesis)
Cartoon caption: I am becoming my house. The image is of a kitchen with eyes and hands appearing in cupboards and out of the washing machine.
Cartoon: fireworks exploding in the sky with BLM/Black Lives Matter banners hanging from the buildings
Cartoon caption: Scenes from the quarantine, the sidewalk barbers of Hamilton Heights
Cartoon caption: The tamalera on 145th Street disappeared. I worry about her.
Last night, I dreamed that I tried to escape quarantine via rats
Cartoon caption: 100 days of quarantine and I feel poppable
Cartoon caption: waiting for my excellent quarantine joke to blow up on the bird app
Cartoon caption: Last night I dreamed of a beach I've never been to.
Cartoon caption: Last night I wondered what happens in the subway when we're not using it. Image shows a series of rats sitting on a subway seat.
Cartoon caption: Quarantine reality check. It shows two people removing trash from the sidewalk labeled 'Essential' and a label for an unseen person inside as 'Non-essential'
Cartoon caption: We're halfway through 2020. What if this was the good half - @dansinker
Cartoon caption: Last night I dreamed that I tried to escape quarantine via alien abduction.
Cartoon caption: Quarantine day 15: A person standing alone in her apartment saying 'looks like it's gonna rain wouldn't you say, Wilsons? Household objects are covered with face that the character in the movie Cast Away painted onto a basketball as a companion
Cartoon caption: This quarantine would be more tolerable if I was haunted. A ghost in Elizabethan costume stands and asks "I made tea, you want tea?"
Cartoon caption: Last night I dreamed that I was on a Zoom call with multiple versions of myself
Cartoon caption: Last night, I dreamed that one of Joe Exotic's husbands came to rescue me from quarantine
Cartoon caption: Forget Tiger King, Downton Abbey is the show for this quarantine. The image shows characters from Downton Abbey standing apart from each other, labeled as 'maintaining distance' and 'always in the house'. Their eyes move side to side.
Cartoon caption: Waiting for the Instacart delivery hoping for interesting substitutions.
Cartoon caption: We thought quarantine was our biggest problem but the old wounds were still out there festering. The image shows a silhouettingi ring of flowers around the face of George Floyd.