Mom's Cancer

A cartoonist chronicles how he and his grown siblings dealt with their mother's cancer diagnosis and treatment in this Eisner Awardwinning graphic novel.

Mom's Cancer is a graphic novel about one family's struggle with metastatic lung cancer. Honest, unflinching, and sometimes humorous, it is a look at the practical and emotional effect that serious illness can have on patients and their families. In the end, it is a story of hopeuniquely told in words and illustrations.

Praise for Mom's Cancer

Winner of the 2005 Eisner Award, Best Digital Comic for the original Web version

**Winner of the Harvey Award, Best New Talent

"The clean, simple comic-strip quality of Fies's art fits the story perfectly, highlighting the gravity of the situation while cutting away undue sentimentality. Mom's Cancer is a quiet, courageous account of one family's response to a universal situation." Publishers Weekly

"In a suave comic-strip style rather like those of Gary Trudeauand Berkeley Breathed . . . Fies traces the events of his mother's illness primarily from the perspective of her three children, including "nurse sis" and "kid sis" (adult but the youngest) as well as himself. . . . Depicting a family dependably if warily dealing, not without anger and feelings of inadequacy, with each crisis and change that cancer brings, Fies' book may be one of the most well-balanced contributions to the literature of coping with cancer." Booklist**

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