The Fredösphere

Be sure to check out the comments to my post on the so-called "Maus of cancer comics." The comic strip's auteur himself showed up to explain his artistic choices.

I want to make clear that when I mentioned the "inappropriate" art, I was talking about my first impression, and my point was, if you have the same reaction, to press on and read the thing anyway, because it is really, really worth it. Please. Believe me, the artist knows what he's doing.

Umie the Umlaut says, "It's the Citizen Kane of mothers with cancer comic strips!"

Yeah, good, thanks for your input, Umie.

If you (like some I know) thought "inappropriate" was a code-word for what my friend Victor refers to as "pr0n" then no, really, that's not what I meant. On the other hand, I do continue to be disturbed by the artist's decision to depict his mother as that fat, naked guy from Milton Bradley's Operation board game. (No kidding.)