Cartoons

“Good Morning Cancer”

cartoons and essays on the wonderful world of cancer

by Robert and Donna Trussell

coming in ~~November 2011~~

(maybe August 2012)

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Good Grief

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Just a Nuisance

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Cheer Up, Girl!

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Chemotherapy: Oy Vey!

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It’s a Blessing

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Reality Bites

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More Trussell & Trussell cartoons on cancer, politics and life at MalicePalace.com.

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11 Responses

on April 5, 2010 at 6:42 pm | Reply Donna Cunningham

Wonderful cartoons, Donna. Great to be able to laugh, and humor is healing. I’m a cancer survivor too and an extremely lucky one…more than 13 years, and I seldom think of myself that way now. Donna also.
on August 1, 2010 at 10:13 pm | Reply Sue Cross

These are wonderful cartoons, Donna. I will definitely share them with my folks. My mom is a breast cancer survivor of 2 years now. My dad is in the midst of chemo and radiation for inoperable colon cancer. Thinking he was going to be the exception, his reaction has come hard and fast. As soon as he’s done I’ll share them with him.

What an honest site. I’m so glad to have found it.
on September 5, 2010 at 1:37 pm | Reply Rebecca Katz

Thank you Lori Hope! This book couldn’t have been published soon enough. It’s a great read, and a great reference guide for all of us dealing with cancer. “Help Me Live,” is a tool box brimming with words of compassion wisdom and straight forward advice. I wish I had this guide to help me in the past. However, I’m grateful that this heartfelt book will serve me well, now and in the future.
on January 15, 2011 at 3:42 pm | Reply kate

Just stumbled on these cartoons by accident and they made me giggle. Then I started looking around the site and realised I was in a very special place indeed. I’m getting over my breast cancer treatment and starting to get my head around all the stuff that’s happened to me in the last 18 months so will pour myself a beer and spend the evening here. Thanks Donna, sending love & thoughts x
- on January 16, 2011 at 8:30 am | Reply donnatrussell
  
  Thank you. :)
on June 5, 2011 at 10:10 am | Reply huang ji

hi! i’m from shanghai, China. you have created great cartoons. can you tell me what is the meaning of the sentences in the sixth cartoon?

they are:

Bernard has web-surfed, visualized and talk-sessioned.

Thanks!
- on June 5, 2011 at 10:26 am | Reply Donna Trussell
  
  Thank you for your kind words. The sentence means the cancer patient (Bernard) has researched cancer on the Internet, and has consulted counselors and support groups, has stocked up on vitamins and signed up for yoga, and he’s ready to fight cancer with everything he’s got. Just one problem: Cancer doesn’t care how hard you fight. It’s a mean disease. Some people, even with the best attitude and the best doctors in the world, don’t make it. It’s not the fault of the patient. Cancer has no cure. Just treatments, which are effective to greater or lesser degrees.
  - on June 5, 2011 at 10:39 am huang ji
    
    thank you very much for your answer.
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on October 6, 2011 at 9:39 pm | Reply skipthewheatgrass

I really do appreciate these cartoons. They are dead on and could only have been written by a cancer patient. I hope you don’t mind that I’ve put a link from my blog to this page, to provide an example of creative works about cancer.

I am working on a project called “Ultra Sounds: A Form for the Creative Exploration of the Cancer story”. This book will be a wide-ranging anthology of creative works by anyone touched by cancer be they patient, family member, health care provider, caregiver, medical technician or hospital maintenance worker.

We are inviting both written entries and art work. I would love to see some excellent cartoons in the book. Please do consider submitting and spreading the word about the project. The address below will take you to the blog where you will find the call for submissions.

We are a volunteer team and the proceeds of the sales of the book will go to Princess Margaret Hospital in Toronto, where I have been a hematology patient for the last 11 years.

Thank you and keep on cartooning!

Samantha Albert
http://www.thecancerproject.wordpress.com
on December 1, 2011 at 5:23 am | Reply shelley donoughe

Thank you for the honesty here… I cringe every time someone says “keep a positive attitude.. that is the key” …. everyone I have known with cancer HAD that positive attitude and sadly they did not survive.. everyone is a fighter but sometimes they are outmatched.