I was 3/4 of the way finished with the pen and ink drawings for the Stella graphic novel when my partner fell mysteriously ill. Suddenly she couldn't stand for more than 10 minutes. Her back was in excruciating pain, and a numbness was creeping up bilaterally from her toes to her waist. Eventually we discovered that she had multiple myeloma, a kind of blood cancer.
Well, naturally, all work on Stella came to a halt! As a way to keep myself sane and to document this nightmare, I began sketches for my second graphic novel A Donkey in the Garden. It tells of her journey from diagnosis to stem cell transplant. I filled four and a half sketchbooks.
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