by Marisa Acocella Marchetto · Tapa dura · ISBN 9782913366176
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«Cancer and the City» is the autobiographical graphic novel by Marisa Acocella Marchetto, published by L'Iconoclaste in hardcover (211 pp., in French).
Marisa, a 43-year-old New York illustrator, sees her life change when she falls in love and shortly after receives a breast cancer diagnosis. With humor and vibrant drawing, she recounts the following eleven months between treatment, love, friendship, work and social life in Manhattan until she overcomes the illness. A testimony in panels full of energy and optimism.
This French edition was published in 2007; it translates «Cancer Vixen», a work originally published in 2006.
For comic and memoir readers who appreciate a testimony about cancer with humor and optimism.
