It's 2:00 a.m., time to watch the Art Spiegelman coronavirus update video

Right away, and I do mean within the first 10 secs, Art S. reveals his family fled NYC for a second home in a small town that presumably wishes they weren't there. Fortunately he has packed his vape pen

every once in a while we're treated to a quick flash of James Sturm(?), who appears to have self-quarantined in the Osama bin Laden bunker

Art Spiegelman's son "is in Paris under his own lockdown, working on virtual reality projects"

Spiegelman has already spent several days planning his disaster comic about coronavirus, but has decided "it's too soon"

What is Art Spiegelman reading right now? "A lot of old stuff." Unfortunately he didn't bring his Little Orphan Annie comics to the quarantine cabin. Big regret

Great news, the cartoonist Seth also has a coronavirus update video. What does a guy who has spent his entire adult life cosplaying as a traveling salesman about 2.5x his size make of this global crisis, I wonder

“The isolation right now in a lot of ways plays into my ideal fetish.” Not two mins into this video, Seth has used the word fetish 3x to talk about quarantine? This is exceeding expectations

“I don’t feel any need for natural light...so I’m in a basement. I was in a basement in the last house too.” How is this real

“Is it healthy or unhealthy to try to live away from people in your own little made-up bubble?” Seth facing some deep questions about his life in this basement interview

Looks like Sturm has decorated his Osama bin Laden bunker since the Spiegelman coronavirus update. Side note, I’m curious if these videos are part of a remote education package that students who pay $25k a year for his unaccredited comics college are getting

“It’s extremely interesting to think that there’s a variety of things happening right now, one of them being that we’re going through a time that especially young people will never forget.” This is an edited conversation, lol

Seth: “unless you’ve got somebody who’s dying in your family right now, this is like an experience of sitting around in the house eating, watching movies”

What a truly remarkable statement from a professional addressing a student body as parts of the industry under discussion collapse around them. Anyway after that Sturm made a joke about how glad Seth is to not have to make public appearances anymore, the end