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So if you've been attending Otakon with me, then chances are that you've met my Mom once or twice because she lives in DC and I'm old enough that my Mom driving up to Baltimore for lunch with me isn't embarrassing. Or at least, I can't say it's embarrassing because I'm cosplaying at an anime convention and all sense of dignity goes out the window.
Mom's a typical Baby-Boomer, so while the rest of you have to deal with your parents who are still concerned that you have "Negro friends". My Mom has always been someone who's amazingly accepting of everyone and is just a fun person to hang out with who has a lot of great experiences in her life.
As most of you probably know, my mother got diagnosed with colon cancer last year. She thankfully was able to beat it and is now currently in remission.
For the past few months, she's been putting together a little web-comic called Cancer is so Funny
When I was a kid, my folks were freelance, so they'd get an assignment and leave around 5 in the morning and come back a few days later. Mom always had a lot of concerns over leaving me and my sister, so she'd always draw little pictures for us the night before she and Dad left. So when I woke up in the morning, there would be a little note saying she loved us, with little drawings of her, dad, me and my sister and any pets we had at the time.
I think that's why I enjoy her comics so much because her style hasn't changed at all. Mom has a cartoonist knack to draw in such simplicity, yet is able to express her ordeal with cancer through it with an eloquence and humor that I think a lot of people aren't able to do truly do.
And as a quick up-date, she got tested again today. Cancer is still gone. Or as my Mom said "Die you mother-fucker and don't you dare come back!"
Mom's a typical Baby-Boomer, so while the rest of you have to deal with your parents who are still concerned that you have "Negro friends". My Mom has always been someone who's amazingly accepting of everyone and is just a fun person to hang out with who has a lot of great experiences in her life.
As most of you probably know, my mother got diagnosed with colon cancer last year. She thankfully was able to beat it and is now currently in remission.
For the past few months, she's been putting together a little web-comic called Cancer is so Funny
When I was a kid, my folks were freelance, so they'd get an assignment and leave around 5 in the morning and come back a few days later. Mom always had a lot of concerns over leaving me and my sister, so she'd always draw little pictures for us the night before she and Dad left. So when I woke up in the morning, there would be a little note saying she loved us, with little drawings of her, dad, me and my sister and any pets we had at the time.
I think that's why I enjoy her comics so much because her style hasn't changed at all. Mom has a cartoonist knack to draw in such simplicity, yet is able to express her ordeal with cancer through it with an eloquence and humor that I think a lot of people aren't able to do truly do.
And as a quick up-date, she got tested again today. Cancer is still gone. Or as my Mom said "Die you mother-fucker and don't you dare come back!"