the lockdown has thrown lots of challenges at us a challenge to beat the pandemic a challenge to revive our society and to keep an upbeat spirit most of us have our own ways of doing this some meditate some exercise some pick up a hobby but for some artists and illustrators this is the time to unleash their creativity and contribute to the mental wellbeing of society keeping this is in mind harsho mohan chattoraj a kolkatabased graphic novelist and illustrator has come up with a unique creation that uses the shape of the coronavirus and gives it a twisthe has used different comic book characters and superheroes to bring focus on the reallife superheroes who are fighting this deadly virus daily what was his inspiration behind the illustration we ask him given the current situation the best thing we can do to remain positive is to see the good things that are around us in spite of the agony and heartbreak i like comics and so naturally superheroes from different domains and comic houses fall under my radar but during this coronary disorder we are all going through we still have superheroes around us the doctors and nurses the police media and many more they are our spidermen wolverines and hellboy they were the inspiration he saidthis illustration is part of an initiative to encourage creative professionals to think positively during the crisis my friend uttaran chaudhuri creative director of an ad firm suggested that we artists do something creative and literally go viral to stop the virus or at least alleviate the depression it has caused he asked me to think of something positive we can do or think of that will look at the current crisis in a way that steers our mind in a positive direction harsho explainedhe also stressed on the need of the creative community to stay together and look at the bright side in these troubled times i would like to tell fellow artists to stay positive hope for the best and keep up the good work that you do keep drawing keep ideating keep colouring our reallife superheroes will devise a solution to the corona problem soon and help us get back to normal life he signed off srijoy mukherjee