Our Cancer Year

Harvey Pekar and Joyce Brabner co-wrote this intensely personal graphic novel, illustrated by Frank Stack and published by Four Walls Eight Windows in 1994. It chronicles a year in their lives as Pekar battles cancer, while also grappling with the social and political upheavals of the early 1990s. A landmark in autobiographical comics, it stands as a raw, unflinching account of illness and resilience from the team behind American Splendor.