Part5

Save the world

Artwork by Mads Horwath 16 August 2024

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Panel 1 of a 7 panel comic. Three people are gathered around a crisis table on which there is a Rubik's cube and a spaceship model. In the background is a large screen showing the trajectory of an asteroid called Didymos as it heads towards earth. One of the characters with black hair says to others "With not much time left, we need to figure out how to stop this asteroid from hitting earth."

In panel 2 someone races through a door into the room, clutching a rolled up paper, arm outstretched. They cry "I know how to stop the asteroid!"

In panel 3 the same person unrolls the papers onto the table and pointing at them says "It seems impossible but the only way to truly stop the asteroid..."

In panel 4 the person turns to the character with black hair and starkly says "...is stop picking your skin"

In panel 5 all the people in the crisis room are silent, turned to look and the black haired character.

In panel 6 the person with black hair shakily says "Uhhhh...should be no problem."

In panel 7 the asteroid impacts with the earth in a great explosion.

Save the world. © Mads Horwath for Wellcome Collection.

About the artist

Mads Horwath

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Mads Horwath is an American cartoonist living in London. You can find their work in The New Yorker and Financial Times. Mads has lived with dermatillomania since they were a kid and got scars from a poison-ivy rash.