Marisa Acocella Marchetto
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Marisa Acocella Marchetto is a cartoonist for The New Yorker and Glamour. Her works have also appeared in, among other publications, the New York Times and Modern Bride. She also authored Just Who the Hell Is She, Anyway?, which was published by Random House.[1] A New Jersey native, she has been married to restaurateur Silvano Marchetto since 2004; they live in New York City.
[edit] Cancer Vixen: A True Story
Marchetto is best-known for the graphic novel/memoir (also published by Random House) she wrote about her 2004/2005 battle with breast cancer through her witty cartoon-panelled memoir titled Cancer Vixen: A True Story, which earned a Critics Choice recommendation from People. To make matters more difficult she had to go through her cancer treatments without health insurance, which she had allowed to lapse.
In one cartoon panel of Cancer Vixen she posits the following:
- "...[W]hat does 29 Needles + 18 pounds + 15 radiation technicians + 11 Medical assistants + 9 Nurses + 8 Doctors + $192,720.04 + 2 Rabbis + 1 Priest =?"
- "Answer: ...An Experience That Has Changed Me Forever."[2]
Another set of panels show a female figure representing Marchetto arguing with the Grim Reaper as follows:
- "Listen Cancer, Ya Sick Bastard"
- "Finally, at 43, I'm Getting Married for the First Time"
- "And David Remnick, Editor in Chief of The New Yorker Wants to Publish More of my Cartoons"
- "NOW IS NOT A GOOD TIME!
Acocella Marchetto donates a portion of "Cancer Vixen" book sales to The Breast Cancer Research Foundation, and is the founder of The Cancer Vixen Fund at Saint Vincent's Comprehensive Cancer Center, which annually funds free mammograms for uninsured women in New York City.
Shortly after its release, "Cancer Vixen" was optioned by Cate Blanchett's Working Title Films.
