![]() It is a true and unflinching account of two people battling cancer. Our Cancer Year, Pekar and Brabner's first book-length comic, is the most human of stories. Pekar and Brabner draw on this and other trials to paint a portrait of a man beset with fears real and imagined - who survives. But he had a better-than-average chance to beat cancer and he took it - kicking, screaming, and complaining all the way. Pekar, a man who has made a profession of chronicling the Kafkaesque absurdities of an ordinary life (if any life is ordinary) suddenly found himself incapacitated. ![]() ![]() It was they year of Desert Storm that Harvey Pekar and his wife, Joyce Brabner, discovered Harvey had cancer. Inscribed by Joyce Brabner on the title page: "Joyce Brabner / Hello Joe!" Inscribed by Harvey Pekar on the first chapter page: "To Joe, Harvey Pekar" ![]()
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