This is some of the coolest movie news I've seen in a while: Cate Blanchett is apparently hoping to adapt Marisa Acocella Marchetto’s frank and funny memoir Cancer Vixen for the big screen. Here's more: "It's about a cartoonist's look at her contracting cancer," Blanchett observed of the book, which she acquired the rights to through her Working Title Films production company shortly after its Read more

It's Breast Cancer Awareness month, as you probably know from the thousands of pink products in stores right now. But I've got a bone to pick: What's with so many BCA items being stingy with the donations? A $30 product that gives only $1 to charity is no great shakes. So that's why I'll only be highlighting items that give good amounts of cash to a great cause. This pick fits the bill. C.O. Read more

In honor of October being Breast Cancer Awareness Month, I'll be featuring people and products from pop culture that have to do with the disease — those who have beaten it, have been touched by it, or are working toward finding a cure. Today's spotlight is on Cancer Vixen, the alternately hilarious and horrifying memoir by Marisa Acocella Marchetto, a cartoonist for Glamour and The New Yorker. Read more

What happens when a shoe-crazy, wine-swilling, big-city girl finds a lump in her breast? The answer is Cancer Vixen, the beyond entertaining graphic memoir by cartoonist Marisa Acocella Marchetto. Similar in tone with Sex and the City, Acocella Marchetto's memoir explores her shock and horror of getting breast cancer in the prime of her life. Marchetto lives and draws in NYC and her story, on a Read more

I was reading Healthbolt earlier today when I came across this gem - Cancer Vixen. The name pretty much sums it up. Told in graphic novel form, cartoonist Marisa Acocella Marchetto tells her tale of battling breast cancer. Her intro reads: What happens when a shoe-crazy, lipstick-obsessed, wine swilling, pasta slurping, fashion-fanatic, single-forever, about-to-get-married big city girl Read more