For most of 2020, time has warped into a slow-motion distortion of reality.
The pandemic has made days and weeks indistinguishable: a year full of nonstop horrifying coronavirus data, new tweetstorms from our nightmare-in-chief, more infuriating racial injustice.
Through it all, The Daily Beast art team has combed through hundreds of stories to make innovative illustrations to visually tell these narratives. You may think there’s only a handful of ways to creatively utilize a microscopic cell of coronavirus, but you’d be wrong.
Below, we’ve rounded up some of our favorite Beast art of 2020—and their corresponding reporting.
‘Pose’ Star Billy Porter Earned His Spot in Hollywood. Now He Wants to Be a ‘Beacon of Hope’
‘I Can’t Breathe’ Is the New American Anthem. Here’s How We Change That.
Why Are So Many Grateful Dead Fans Being Murdered?
Trump’s GOP Goes From Live Free or Die to Live Free and Die
How Mary Astor’s Purple Diary Sparked an Infamous Hollywood Sex Scandal
Inside Disney’s Ugly COVID Reopening Battle in California
The Only Curve That’s Flattening Is Trump’s Learning Curve
Breonna Taylor’s Family Gets a Settlement—but Not Justice
Dems Deliver Apocalyptic Message: Vote or Die
Captain Trump Steers America Toward Iceberg of Insanity
Trump Brags: Coronavirus Response Could ‘Help, Not Hurt’ Me in November
Team Trump Frantically Plots New Ways to Make Him Feel Good About Himself
Casino Royale: Feds Say Chinese Drug Barons Laundered U.S. Coke Cash in Guatemalan Casinos
Trump Pardons Crooks to Feel Like a King
Coronavirus Has Killed the Power of Touch. How Do We Reconnect?
The Country Could Use a First Lady. But Melania Trump Has Gone AWOL.
What Happens When All the Doctors Get Sick?
Trump Can’t Handle the Truth, and We Just Proved It
FBI Sits on Report Detailing White-Supremacist Terror Threat
Are the Manhattan & the Martini the Same Cocktail?
