Cartoonist Profiles #209
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Brian Fies, Mom’s Cancer, and Graphic Medicine; 24 years with local political cartoonist Ross Mayfield; and a Lalo Alcaraz 25th Anniversary.
Brian Fies
“‘Mom’s Cancer’ is one of — if not the most — widely taught work of graphic medicine and has been for as long as the field has been defined,” said Matthew Noe, a librarian at Harvard Medical School’s Countway Library. “It remains one of the comics I include today when I teach librarians about graphic medicine.”
On the release of the 20th anniversary edition of Mom’s Cancer Dan Taylor at The Press Democrat discusses the impact of the ground-breaking graphic novel.
In 2003, Santa Rosa writer and cartoonist Brian Fies learned his mother had lung cancer that had metastasized to her brain. As he and his two sisters navigated the upheaval of her illness, Fies turned to comics, using the medium to process the experience and express his feelings.
The result, “Mom’s Cancer,” has since become a touchstone in medical education, used internationally to help doctors and nurses better understand the perspectives of cancer patients. The book also helped inspire the field of graphic medicine, a term coined in 2007 by the Welsh physician, artist and author Ian Williams after encountering Fies’ work.
Brian will be interviewed this Sunday, March 29 at 2 Pacific/5 Eastern at Comix for All’s Ink & Insight YouTube.
Ross Mayfield
The Santa Maria (CA) Sun’s Madison White interview’s the newspaper’s political cartoonist Ross Mayfield.
…His humble origins remain true, but many more people know his name today than they did back then. It’s synonymous with his political cartoon, Mayfield, that’s been published in the Sun every other week for nearly 24 years, amounting to hundreds and hundreds of cartoons.
Mayfield’s work sent waves through the Sun office in 2002, which, like the blueprint shop, was also located by the airport at the time. One day, then Editor Ryan Miller presented the illustrator with a job proposition…
Lalo Alcaraz
Meanwhile Lalo Alcaraz is celebrating 25 years of syndication with Andrews McMeel.
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