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autographedcatOne of the Usenet newsgroups I still bother to keep up with is rec.arts.comics.strips. Today, one of the regulars posted a message about a comic he was working on. It's still a work in progress, but he wanted people who appeciated the form to take a look and give him feedback, good or bad.
So I went to take a look.
Mom's Cancer will not amuse you. It may not even entertain you. But it will affect you. The author, who is preferring to stay semi-anonymous for obvious reasons, has crafted an intimate, frank, and touching portrayal of what he and his family have gone through during the course of his mother's treatment for incurable lung cancer.
It is a work-in-progress. It doesn't yet have an ending. But in the space of time it took me to read the installments to date, I have come to know these people, to care for them, to worry about their outcome. I want to know what happens next. I need to know how the story continues.
This is undistilled Good Stuff. Read it. It's worth the trip.
So I went to take a look.
Mom's Cancer will not amuse you. It may not even entertain you. But it will affect you. The author, who is preferring to stay semi-anonymous for obvious reasons, has crafted an intimate, frank, and touching portrayal of what he and his family have gone through during the course of his mother's treatment for incurable lung cancer.
It is a work-in-progress. It doesn't yet have an ending. But in the space of time it took me to read the installments to date, I have come to know these people, to care for them, to worry about their outcome. I want to know what happens next. I need to know how the story continues.
This is undistilled Good Stuff. Read it. It's worth the trip.
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Date: 2004-04-30 09:53 pm (UTC)Gah. Talk about understatement. I read the Introduction and the first six chapters.
Neither of my parents died of cancer, but I couldn't go on.
"But it will affect you."
Again, understatement. Very.
"I want to know what happens next. I need to know how the story continues."
Me too. Definitely. Especially since my Chosen One is a health care professional who
is very much a battler like Nurse Sis. I will return to this. To the finish.
But not today.
Darby Conley's recent Get Fuzzy storyline about Rob's (Wilco's) cousin and
Garry Trudeau's current storyline about B.D. both pale by comparison to Mom.
Thank you, I think.
Ann O.
PS - Is a graphic novel / short story considered a comic strip