In this nonfiction work, Brian Fies and his siblings struggle to cope when their mother is diagnosed with advanced-stage lung cancer.
Graphic Goal
Fies uses abrupt shifts in style and focus: He imagines his family as warring superheroes or Mom as a game of Operation with the instructions
''Chemotherapy: repeat until better or dead.''
Comix Effect
Wry and poignant, Mom's Cancer expresses the schizophrenic reality of dealing with a serious illness.
