Then This Happened: A Diary About Breast Cancer — Book 1 cover
Then This Happened… Book 1

A Diary About
Breast Cancer

A raw, honest daily comic diary about facing the unexpected—the diagnosis, treatment, and finding ways to keep going. 364 pages of real life, four panels at a time.

What's this book about?

My wife was diagnosed with breast cancer. I didn't know how to deal with it, so I started drawing.

Every day I made a four-panel strip about whatever was happening—waiting rooms, test results, the horrible things you say trying to be funny when you're scared. This is Book 1: the beginning of that diary. The diagnosis, the treatment, and the small weird moments that kept us going.

It's honest. It's sometimes funny. It's 364 strips of real life.

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Sample strip from Then This Happened
Sample strip from Then This Happened
Sample strip from Then This Happened

How it all started

"Then This Happened…" started as a way to process the hardest thing we'd ever been through. Drawing a four-panel strip every day gave the chaos a shape—something small we could point at and say yeah, that happened.

What began as a coping mechanism turned into an ongoing daily webcomic diary that's still going. This is where it all started. Book 1 is the original run: the year we found out, the year we got through it.

364 daily strips

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