She had some friends fall away, and it was pretty clear to me that it was because they didn’t know how to handle. I saw how much she went through that I didn’t, especially in a social respect. I was able to talk to her about it it’s like we were both in this weird club. She was a soccer player and it took her out from that. Then my best friend’s daughter, who was a freshman in high school, found out she had cancer in her leg. At one time, I considered doing a graphic novel or even having my characters from the strip go through it, but I never found the right tone or was happy with it. I kicked around the idea of writing a memoir or an adult novel.
I continued to do the strip all through the treatments, and I always thought there was something there about humor and being forced to be funny every day.
When I went through my cancer experience, 14 years ago now, I was doing my comic strip Big Top. Why did you decide to write this story, a fictional account of something you experienced in real life as an adult, from the perspective of a seventh grader?
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