Mom’s Cancer is a Comic book by Brian Fies that blends together words and images to describe the author mom’s battle with lung cancer, as well as the hard times that his family is going through. In this powerful book, words and images are used to express emotions, sadness, deep fears. Through the juxtaposition of words and visual elements, the readers are drawn into the world of Brian Fies, joining and being close to his family in the hard times they are going through. The book cover is a cartoon symbolizing his mom. The panel has been cut in a half, to express the fact that the world of cancer patients is somehow double because many times their brain is sometimes in a different world compared to their body.
This comic book does a great job at expressing the effect and the powerful composition resulted when words and images are used together. The style adopted by Fies gives him the ability to express the passage of time, different actions, scenes, people, emotions, states of mind, or places. For example to show that his mom’s health is worsening, he is portraying her in a sequence from having hair, to less hair, until finally all her hair is gone. All this transitions is on the same page.
The video below is an interview with Brian Fies for the Rockweel Museum in which the author states the story behind the scenes of Mom's Cancer.
Sarcasm and irony are also used to express serious family matters and issues and involve the reader body and soul.
Mom’s Cancer won the Eisner Award in 2005 for best Digital Comic Book, and after it was published in 2006, many other awards were to come.
To find out more information about Brian Fies and his latest Comic Books, check out his blog at: http://momscancer.blogspot.com/.
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