Cancer Vixen : A True Story

from monzrocks

Light-hearted graphic memoir of 40-something cartoonist's cancer diagnosis and treatment. A Sex & the City-style New Yorker, Marchetto is on the brink of marriage for the first time when she finds out she has cancer. She chronicles her experience in great detail, from the kinds of shoes she wears...

from melydia

This is the true story, told as a graphic novel, of a NYC cartoonist and her battle with breast cancer. She is diagnosed mere weeks before her wedding to resturantuer Silvano Marchetto, and between that, her job, and the constant nuisance of models hitting on her fiance, things start to get a lit...

from Duranfan

I loved her first book, "Who the Hell is She, Anyway." Her drawing style has gotten more relaxed but her self-absorbed humor hasn't. A good, light-hearted look at living with cancer and chemo.

from BookinKim

"What happens when a shoe-crazy, lipstick-addressed, wine-swelling, pasta-slurping, fashion-fanatic, single-forever, about-to-get-married big-city cartoonist with a fabulous life finds...a lump?" In this memoir, Marisa shares her life story and her battle with cancer with humorous illustrations a...

from melydia

This is the true story, told as a graphic novel, of a NYC cartoonist and her battle with breast cancer. She is diagnosed mere weeks before her wedding to resturantuer Silvano Marchetto, and between that, her job, and the constant nuisance of models hitting on her fiance, things start to get a lit...