Mom's Cancer is the true tale
of my mother's battle with metastatic lung cancer. The story
describes how a serious illness affects patient and family, both practically
and emotionally, in ways that I've discovered are very common. Many
readers wrote to tell me how surprised and relieved they were to learn
they weren't alone.
Mom's Cancer began as a serialized
Internet comic, with new installments added throughout 2004. Readership
grew by word-of-mouth. People who needed the story found it and told
their friends about it. In July 2005,
Mom's Cancer won the comics
industry's
Eisner Award for Best Digital Comic, a new category
that year.
In early 2006, publisher
Harry N. Abrams released
a hardcover edition of
Mom's Cancer, which unfortunately meant
removing it from the Web. I'm very gratified by the reviews and recognition
the book has received, and happy that my family's story is being used
by medical professionals and reaching people I wouldn't have
thought possible when I began writing it.
