ComicVixen

ComicVixen is not a book about homelessness, but there is panel where heroine sits despondent along a wall with shopping bags and a man offers her cash, saying "You need this more than I do." Or all bag ladies are not bag ladies.

I outgrew comic books way back when. I only recently outgrew the funnies or newspaper comics. The local paper's selection never seem to be funny. Political cartoons can still get a smile out of me. This comic book is a book ~ hardcover (from library) and simply loved it. The book length comic is the true story of cartoonist, Marisa Acocella Marchetto's breast cancer adventure.

If my WiFi did not conk out would write a book review for this one; seems I already wrote a mini-review describing it to my oldest daughter, via snail mail letter. She never outgrew comics; at one time had a collection of over 6,000. Do not know how if she cares to read about breast cancer, but know she will love the NYC people, conversations, fashion and food included in the tale. And yeah, some "Fantastic Four" type characters, angels and lots more. A fun book and educational.

There is a mention of "cancer clusters" ~ towns or areas with high rates of cancer. New Jersey, I think, has the highest rate of breast cancer in the nation. I often wondered if it was milk from those Jersey cows or pollution flowing down river from NYC. Marisa mentions such a cluster "20 miles from my mother's shore home". The shore home being the Jersey Shore. I have vague recollection of a brother's town being considered one of those areas with a high number of deaths due to cancer. His wife: lung cancer. Him: brain tumor, his stomach cancer was cured prior to her diagnosisnd death and his new problem.

Having lived in New Jersey, do know woman who died from breast cancer or survived it.

ComicVixen is available from website and paperback is now available:

http://www.marisaacocellamarchetto.com/blog/?page_id=8