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Published in 1994 by Four Walls Eight Windows, Our Cancer Year (an offshoot of the cult favorite comic book series American Splendor) relates the story of Pekar's harrowing yet successful treatment struggle to overcome lymphoma, as well as serving as a social commentary on events of that year.
- Joyce Brabner, Harvey Pekar, Frank Stack
- 1994
Oct 12, 1994 · 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. But he had a better-than-average chance to beat cancer and he took it - kicking, screaming and complaining all the way.
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Oct 13, 1994 · It was they year of Desert Storm that Harvey Pekar and his wife, Joyce Brabner, discovered Harvey had cancer. 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.
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- 1994
- Joyce Brabner, Harvey Pekar, Frank Stack
- Harvey Pekar, Joyce Brabner
Sep 16, 2010 · Our Cancer Year portrays the diagnosis and treatment of his illness against a backdrop of domestic upheaval and the momentous political and social events of that year.
- Ian Williams
- 2010
Our Cancer Year. Harvey Pekar. Running Press Book Publishers, $19.95 (252pp) ISBN 978-1-56858-011-1. Joined by his wife and collaborator Brabner and illustrator Stack, Pekar's (The New...
It was they year of Desert Storm that Harvey Pekar and his wife, Joyce Brabner, discovered Harvey had cancer. 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.
Our Cancer Year, Pekar and Brabner's first book-length comic, is the most human of stories. It is a true and unflinching account of two people battling cancer.
