I once advised my old friend, comics artist Art Spiegelman, against using the holocaust as a subject for a comic book. We all know how well that advice turned out. Since then, I’ve read dozens of graphic novels dealing weighty personal themes of war, persecution, and health, and have come to understand that addressing life-and-death horrors through wit and humor can be quite liberating for the artist/author—and inspiring for the reader as well.
Still, I felt the dread of oncoming stress as I opened Matt Freedman’s new graphic novel Relatively Indolent But Relentless: A Cancer Treatment Journal. But I’m glad I did open this moving, sometimes hilarious, and, yes, emotionally draining account of an all-too-common ordeal.
-The Atlantic
