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Review by Muniyra Douglas A life turned upside down by a single phone call. A young woman must navigate difficult familial, platonic, and romantic relationships suddenly impacted by a new medical revelation. Kimiko Does Cancer is a graphic memoir written by Kimiko Tobimatsu and illustrated by Keet Geniza. It’s the first novel for both and it follows Kimiko’s harrowing journey as she balances life, relationships, and her career while battling breast cancer. Although described as a cancer-survivor narrative, the novel, like Kimiko, is not a monolith. As a queer, mixed-raced woman, Kimiko provides a unique outlook on her medical journey, which subverts the traditional cancer narrative. It conjures uncomfortable, often-ignored conversations around poor medical advice, fertility and family planning, sexual intimacy, social isolation, and mortality. Working as an unemployment lawyer, Kimiko understandably finds herself struggling to balance work while battling cancer. ....
As a librarian, I am lucky to be surrounded by comics. I grew up reading Archie and the weekend comics in the Winnipeg Free Press, spending many afternoons drawing the characters and making paper dolls of them. In my late teens, reading the work of creators such as Julie Doucet, Adrian Tomine, Geneviève Castrée, Lynda Barry, and Gabrielle Bell helped me through difficult times. Until then, I had no idea that comics could be so varied and speak so frankly about topics like depression, identity, and sexuality. Comics have a unique intimacy that connects readers through their layered and often visceral communication of experiences, narratives, and ideas. ....