I’m a graphic designer who has done autobiographical comics for around 16 years, mostly about medical stuff (detached retina, thyroid surgery, a bad fall, gallbladder surgery…). Late last year I was diagnosed with prostate cancer. Just my prostate and some pelvic lymph nodes at this point, and awaiting possible surgery (all this stuff takes so long).
Anyway, I’ve been processing this awfulness the best way I know how, by drawing a comic about it. I’m up to 24 pages and have started posting a page a week (or so) on my comic-oriented webpage. Perhaps someone might find it entertaining, or amusing, or even informative.
Yeah... I'm parcelling the pages out, adding one a week, sorta. I'm actually up to page 24, but don't want to blow through them too quickly, as it takes a least a day to draw/ink/layout/write a page.
Excellent! Sorry you are here with us but glad someone can graphically document it. Best of luck in your treatment decision making. A lot of wise people here when you are ready to ask questions. In the meantime, create away!
See... I'm kinda a grump and hate depicting dealing with this disease as a "fight." I even mock the concept on page 18 of the comic. But of course YMMV.
I'm with you all the way, I always find myself a bit of black humour, always helps, me anyway👍 I'm Irish we've learnt to appreciate it to lighten the darkest of moods!
Its when you are in a hospital bed a doctor, says "We have a sex change lined up for you🤫...... ooops! sorry wrong bed!" "that's bed number 17, Doctor!"😷🤗🤗 that sort of thing🤭🤭
I just uploaded page 16 of my comic, although I'm actually working on page 51, trying to figure out how to finish this. Probably with the end of EBRT (last week) and followup visit to my oncologist.
I’m almost finished with my comic, and in celebration of that, I just uploaded a buncha (well, seven) new sample pages up to my site, bringing the total there to 25. In real life, the comic will be 60 pages long.
Doing serious editing now, but wanted to let y’all take a look so far…
Just a quick note to say that my prostate cancer comic just came back from the printers, and it looks great! Whew! I’m always worried I’ll screw something up in production, and am happy to finally have copies in my hands. The digital copy available here is great, but there’s nothing like a printed comic book.
I’ll be selling them at local book/comic shows here in Athens, Georgia, and will stock some at Bizarro-Wuxtry, my local comic shop.
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