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Mary Blocksma

posted 02/16/2007, comments (0)

Miriam Engelberg: My “Shallow” Hero

This week I read Miriam Engelberg’s breast cancer memoir titled Cancer Made Me a Shallower Person: A Memoir in Comics, and fell in love. Engelberg’s book is about as opposite from Cancer Vixen (another graphic memoir I’ve reviewed) as it could get and still be a graphic memoir about breast cancer.I loved Marisa Acocella... Read more Chevron

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Mary Blocksma

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posted 12/06/2006, comments (0)

Review of Cancer Vixen

Aren’t there enough breast cancer books already, not to mention websites, movies, television interviews, and newspaper and magazine articles? Do we breast cancer patients and survivors really need yet another cancer book? Yes, we do! We need Cancer Vixen, a funny, smart, entertaining, highly educational, never boring literally graphic breast... Read more Chevron

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Beth Brophy

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posted 09/13/2006, comment (1)

Lessons from Cancer Vixen

There’s not enough humor writing about the breast cancer experience, which is why I’d like to call your attention to a terrific new book: Cancer Vixen, a graphic memoir by illustrator and cartoonist Marisa Acocella Marchetto (Alfred A. Knopf). Marchetto, a cartoonist for the New Yorker and Glamour, among other publications, was... Read more Chevron

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