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Each year, approximately 1.5 million people in the United States and Canada are diagnosed with cancer. This is one familys story.Winner of the 2005 Eisner Award in the category of Best Digital Comic for the original Web version, Moms Cancer is now available as a graphic novel. An honest, unflinching, and sometimes humorous look at the practical and emotional effect that serious illness can have on patients and their families, Moms Cancer is a story of hopeuniquely told in words and illustrations.Brian Fies is a freelance journalist whose mother was diagnosed with lung cancer. As he and his two sisters struggled with the effects of her illness and her ongoing recovery from treatment, Brian processed the experience in his journal, which took the form of words and pictures.The story that came to be known as Moms Cancer first gained notice on the internet. It was posted anonymously, with the intention of sharing information and insights gained from his familys experience. Thanks to the words and illustrations of Brian Fies, readers have already responded that they were surprised and gratified to realize that they werent alone. AbramsComicArts is proud to bring this story to a whole new audience.

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Publié par	ABRAMS BOOKS
Date de parution	01 juillet 2011
Nombre de lectures	6
EAN13	9781613122419
Langue	English
Poids de l'ouvrage	2 Mo

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MOM S CANCER

MOM’S CANCER
BRIAN FIES
ABRAMS COMICARTS, NEW YORK
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Fies, Brian. Mom s cancer / Brian Fies. p. cm. ISBN 978-0-8109-7107-3 1. Graphic novels. I. Title. PN6727.F483M66 2006 741.5 973-dc22 2005021824
Copyright 2006 Brian Fies This edition published in 2008 by Abrams ComicArts, an imprint of Abrams.
All rights reserved. No portion of this book may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form or by any means, mechanical, electronic, photocopying, recording, or otherwise, without written permission from the publisher.
Abrams ComicArts is a registered trademark of Harry N. Abrams, Inc., registered in the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office.
Abrams ComicArts books are available at special discounts when purchased in quantity for premiums and promotions as well as fundraising or educational use. Special editions can also be created to specification. For details, contact special- sales@abramsbooks.com or the address to the right.

editor Charles Kochman
editorial assistant Isa Loundon
director, art design Mark LaRiviere
designer Brady McNamara
production managers Steve Baker, Stanley Redfern
115 West 18th Street New York, NY 10011 www.abramsbooks.com
To Karen, Robin, and Laura And Elisabeth, Brenda, and Barbara
Many people have been more supportive of my work on Mom s Cancer than necessary, including Jennifer Contino, Otis Frampton, Michael Fry, Joey Manley, Malcolm McGookin, Wiley Miller, Ronnie Pardy, Mike Peterson, Ted Slampyak, Patricia Storms, and Arnold Wagner. Some of them may protest that they did very little; however, even a little at the right place and time can make a big difference. Dad, thanks for surprising me. Special thanks to editor Charlie Kochman.
INTRODUCTION
Mom. Cancer. How could the juxtaposition of those two words not make us stop and take notice? Mom s Cancer is a powerful combination of words and pictures that can unsettle, but in the hands of Brian Fies they inspire. In a 2001 interview with Stefano Gorla, comics legend Will Eisner said, "I write about what I know and what I have experienced. This keeps me an honest writer." By the standard that Eisner brought to the field of comics, Mom s Cancer is exceedingly honest-and Brian Fies most assuredly writes about what he knows. Not only is his book honest, it is also smart, funny, cathartic, and brave. In the truest sense of the word, it is original. The world of comics is continuously changing and evolving. Ever since the appearance of Richard F. Outcault s Hogan s Alley in 1895, practitioners like Winsor McCay, Harvey Kurtzman, and Alan Moore have been reinventing the medium along the way. The publication of Will Eisner s seminal graphic novel A Contract with God and Other Tenement Stories in 1978 paved the road for all others to follow: Art Spiegelman s Maus: A Survivor s Tale (1986), Harvey Pekar and Joyce Brabner s Our Cancer Year (1994), Howard Cruse s Stuck
Rubber Baby (1995), and more recently Marjane Satrapi s Persepolis: The Story of a Childhood (2003), have all tested the definition of comics and redefined its subject matter. Whether Mom s Cancer gets added to that list remains to be seen. However, its distinction comes from the fact that it was first created as a Web comic. It was posted anonymously and found its audience online, outside the system of mainstream comics, through word of mouth. A little more than a year later, on July 15, 2005, Scott McCloud presented Brian Fies with an Eisner Award at the San Diego Comic-Con-the first-ever award for Best Digital Comic. Mom s Cancer became the Little Web Comic That Could, and it signified a shift in the way comics were made, read, even published. Although it could have easily continued its existence in cyberspace, passing from one Googled link and forwarded e-mail to another, the story has now coalesced on paper, sold in the traditional arena of book publishing. Our intention is to give Mom s Cancer a sense of permanence, and perhaps make it even more accessible, expanding its audience in ways its author/illustrator could never have imagined. If this is your first graphic novel, we hope you are encouraged to explore the countless others waiting for you to read. Or perhaps you ll be inspired to create your own. All stories, if they are honest, are universal. Sadly, few things in life are more universal than illness. Each year, approximately 1.5 million people in the United States and Canada are diagnosed with cancer. This is one family s story. In many ways, it is also everyone s story.
Charles Kochman Charles Kochman is the editorial director of Abrams ComicArts, and editor of the bestselling Diary of a Wimpy Kid series by Jeff Kinney. Prior to joining Abrams in January 2005, Kochman was editor of Licensed Publishing at DC Comics and MAD Magazine for twelve years, and before that he was an editor at Bantam Books and PlayValue books, an imprint of G.P. Putnam's Sons. A graduate of Brooklyn College, Kochman is a member of the National Cartoonists Society, and is on the board of advisors for MoCCA (the Museum of Comic and Cartoon Art).
PREFACE
You are not alone.
I created Mom s Cancer because I wish someone had created it for me. I began serializing Mom s Cancer on the Internet in early 2004 as a kind of underground journalism: dispatches from the front lines of a battle into which my family stumbled unprepared. I worked anonymously to protect my privacy and my family, who never asked to become cartoon characters, and also to suggest that the story could be about anybody anywhere. Readership grew by word of mouth. People who needed it found it. Although Mom s Cancer is very specifically about my family and our experience fighting my mother s metastatic lung cancer, I was astonished by how many readers saw their own stories in ours. I was also gratified to get letters from medical professionals and educators saying that Mom s Cancer helped them understand their patients perspectives and asking permission to use it in their curricula. That was an unexpected privilege, as is the opportunity to reach even more readers through print. When I started writing and drawing Mom s Cancer , I didn t know how the story would end. I resolved to be a good reporter and tell it as squarely as I could. Mom s Cancer is not
a nuts-and-bolts medical manual. Tests and treatments vary; the emotional and practical impacts of a serious illness are nearly universal. Members of my family remember some of these events very differently, and my portrayals of them aren t always flattering. The fact that my mother, father, and sisters still graciously and even enthusiastically support Mom s Cancer means everything to me-another unexpected privilege. Mom s Cancer is an honest, earnest effort to turn something bad into something good. Although I distrust stories with lessons, here is one: No one will care more about your life than you do, and no one is better qualified to chart its course than you are. You are the expert.
THE CHARACTERS
In her early sixties and diagnosed with lung cancer that metastasized to her brain after a lifetime of cigarette smoking, she is determined to overcome grave odds.
Mom s eldest, a self-employed writer in my early forties with a wife and two teenage daughters, living in the same city as Mom.
M om
M e
One year younger than Me, single, and a registered nurse with years of experience in critical care, intensive care, and emergency room treatment.
An actress, writer, videographer, and Web entrepreneur about half a generation younger than Nurse Sis and Me, who shares a condominium with Mom.
N urse S is
K id S is