Maddy Buck is a comics artist based in Minneapolis who specializes in illustrated explanations of tech, law, and all things complex.

Explainer Comic - Quarantine Powers

Excerpt from comic explaining the Federal Quarantine Powers. Created April 2020. First published on Graphic Medicine’s Covid Comics, 2020.

This comic was created digitally in an ink and watercolor style.

Cover of explainer comic. It says, “The Federal Quarantine Powers (in pictures) by Maddy Buck.” We see “CDC” as a figure with arms and legs, a drawing of a sick person in a box that says “Isolation” on top of them, another person in another box, whi

The text of this panel says, “The constitution gives Congress the authority ‘to regulate commerce with foreign nations and among the several states, and with the Indian tribes.” The illustration shows Minnesota and Wisconsin, with arrows between its