Just Who the Hell Is She, Anyway?

Lola Ogunnaike (NYT) profiles New Yorker cartoonist Marisa Acocella Marchetto, who has a six-page autobiographical comic strip about her recovery from breast cancer in the current issue of Glamour, where's she the in-house cartoonist. The article notes in passing that Marchetto's work has appeared in the Times, but doesn't get into much detail about how they never should have cancelled "The Strip" in the first place, as it was one of the few genuinely entertaining (or for that matter biting) things the Style section has ever run. (I mean, Modern Love? Puh-LEEZ.)

Marchetto says she plans to turn the Cancer Vixen strip, which was as long as twenty pages in its original draft, into a book à la Our Cancer Year, which should be interesting; those of us who enjoyed SHE back in the day might well anticipate more from Marchetto in the non-gag vein.