– Mom? I just want to say I’m sorry. For wishing you cancer at age six because you sent me to bed early. That was wrong of me.

– I didn’t mean for it to turn out this way. What with the chemo and the radiation and the hair loss and all. So… I’m sorry.

– Finally! I’ve been waiting twenty long years to hear that sweet apology! Now I can be done with this charade!

– You… You mean that you’ve been faking cancer for twenty years? Just to teach me a lesson?

– Well, when put it THAT way, it sounds bad.

header: soothe your soul at WONDERMARK.COM
alt-text: she actually does have cancer. she’s just mean

- Mom? I just want to say I'm sorry. For wishing you cancer at age six because you sent me to bed early. That was wrong of me.

- I didn't mean for it to turn out this way. What with the chemo and the radiation and the hair loss and all. So... I'm sorry.

- Finally! I've been waiting twenty long years to hear that sweet apology! Now I can be done with this charade!

- You... You mean that you've been faking cancer for twenty years? Just to teach me a lesson?

- Well, when put it THAT way, it sounds bad.

header: soothe your soul at WONDERMARK.COM
alt-text: she actually does have cancer. she's just mean

not everything is about you, charles.

#126; In which Cancer is faked

[ Tags: deceit, medicine ] Permalink: https://wondermark.com/c/126/

20 years ago (in photocomic form)

June 9, 2026 by David Malki !

The computers tell me it was 20 years ago, June 9, 2006, that I arrived in New York for my first-ever comic convention as an exhibitor, MoCCA.

It was an important trip for me, a milestone in what would go on to become my career.

I wrote a little reminiscence on Patreon (free/unlocked) — including a first-since-then reprint of the photocomics I made at the time, documenting the trip!