By Lauren Pecorino The statement "cancer is personal" can have several meanings. The fact that cancer affects one in three people over their lifetimes means that it is a disease that will hit close to home for everyone. Everyone will have family or friends that will be affected and loved ones will become cancer patients. Cancer is personal. Luckily, we are living in a new age when cancer patients are more likely than ever to be cancer survivors. There are 28 million cancer survivors in the world today. Out of approximately 12 million cancer survivors in the United States, 4.7 million received their diagnosis at least ten years ago. The good news that everyone should know is that there is progress in cancer management.
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By: Kirsty,
on 7/28/2011
Back in high school, I started a small self publishing press called Keyhole Press. A new comic shop opened up in the city, Strange Adventures, and the owner Calum was inviting people to produce short comics for a local anthology he was putting together. I started there and then went on to produce my own stuff. I did a story called The Crow's Nest, which was a fairy tale adventure story that lasted about eight issues. I did a complete story arc and then some short stories. Next a group of local comic book people and myself started our own anthology. It was called Quiver( named by Calum) and was an anthology of fantasy and horror stories. Each issue was centered on a theme. I kept producing comics through high school and university but as I learned more about painting I wanted to tell stories using illustration, rather than through comics. At this point, self publishing was becoming less common. There started to be more alternatives to superhero comics from people like Image and Vertigo and more stuff was being sent over here from Europe. Now with the internet, people can publish on line and nothing needs to be shipped by an individual making their own comics. One of the reasons I stopped putting out comics was that the the industry had started more and more to focus on adult readers. I didn't pursue comics because I wasn't very interested in the types of stories that were being told. I do like where things are going now, with people like Shaun Tan and Jeff Smith producing larger, self contained works. Libraries are purchasing more of these types of books for their collections. It's hard to gauge this sort of thing but I think this is a really good direction for comic creators to go in.
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on 1/21/2008
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Back in high school, I started a small self publishing press called Keyhole Press. A new comic shop opened up in the city, Strange Adventures, and the owner Calum was inviting people to produce short comics for a local anthology he was putting together. I started there and then went on to produce my own stuff. I did a story called The Crow's Nest, which was a fairy tale adventure story that lasted about eight issues. I did a complete story arc and then some short stories. Next a group of local comic book people and myself started our own anthology. It was called Quiver( named by Calum) and was an anthology of fantasy and horror stories. Each issue was centered on a theme. I kept producing comics through high school and university but as I learned more about painting I wanted to tell stories using illustration, rather than through comics. At this point, self publishing was becoming less common. There started to be more alternatives to superhero comics from people like Image and Vertigo and more stuff was being sent over here from Europe. Now with the internet, people can publish on line and nothing needs to be shipped by an individual making their own comics. One of the reasons I stopped putting out comics was that the the industry had started more and more to focus on adult readers. I didn't pursue comics because I wasn't very interested in the types of stories that were being told. I do like where things are going now, with people like Shaun Tan and Jeff Smith producing larger, self contained works. Libraries are purchasing more of these types of books for their collections. It's hard to gauge this sort of thing but I think this is a really good direction for comic creators to go in.
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