Kimiko Does Cancer: A Graphic Memoir Ann Xu Emily Steinberg

Emily Steinberg

She has looked for it in her favourite books

“Each page’s vivid pastels and expressive cartooning lend emotional vibrancy to the characters’ intellectual banter

and Canadians in equal measure

it can make us do things we never thought we could do

Kimiko Does Cancer: A Graphic Memoir Ann Xu Emily SteinbergBy Kimiko Tobimatsu and Keet Geniza. Published by Arsenal Pulp Press. Softcover, two colour throughout, 96 pages, 2020 A moving and honest graphic memoir about the unexpected cancer journey of a young, queer, mixed race woman. At the age of twenty five, Kimiko Tobimatsu was a young, queer, mixed race woman with no history of health problems whose world was turned upside down when she was diagnosed with breast cancer. In an instant, she became immersed