OUR CANCER YEAR by Harvey Pekar and Joyce Brabner with art by Frank Stack.

Peckar is one of the first writers to think that everyday life could provide the basis for comic book stories.
Our Cancer Year  portrays the diagnosis and treatment of Harvey Pekar's lymphoma against a backdrop of domestic upheaval and the momentous political and social events of the first gulf war. The recurring theme in the book is fear. In big ways and small ways, and all in different ways, everyone lives in fear.
Frank Stack's scratchy monochrome brush and pen work lend the panels an air of anxiety and disorder.