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Survivor Spotlight: Tom Batiuk, Creator of Funky Winkerbean
The Cancer Blog
Sep 26th 2007 10:14AM My wife used to be a faithful reader of FW. Even after she was diagnosed with Stage 4 breast cancer, had a mastectomy, went through difficult radiation twice, then chemo, she used to read Funky Winkerbean. She will never be cured as hers is terminal and they now call this "chronic" cancer which sounds better...but it is the same thing. Last Fall she was told she was in remission, but in June, 2007, we discovered it spread to her liver. She again is in chemo and is fighting it hard with a new round of chemo with terrible side affects this time. Each day she used to read the cartoon, but now it has gone on seemingly forever as a depressing saga of death and not of life. It is hard to see the "love story" he thinks he is writing about. If Lisa is to die from cancer, let her die. But it is not a cartoon no matter what is said about "people not understanding". At this point my wife cannot and will not read FW and probably never will read it again. What once used to be a great cartoon strip has been changed into a crusade for the artist to continually bring up the bad that we all are very well aware of. Yes, people do die. But this is getting old and needs to go away.
