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The Huffington Post has the scoop on Cancer Vixen, the brand-new book by New Yorker cartoonist Marisa Acocella Marchetto. Here's an excerpt from the interview by Cynthia Kling:

CK: #11. How did you start doing the book?

MM: Lauren Brody of Glamour asked me to write about it. When the cartoons ran in Glamour, The New York Times wrote about it, and we sold the idea to Knopf. I had wanted to do it as a book, so I'd kept everything -- receipts, notes, Sketches, e-mails. My friends are now afraid to say anything to me, because they think I'll use it. (That's kind of a joke, but not really.)

CK: #12. While you were sick, did you play the cancer card?

MM: Oh yeah, to get out of stuff that I didn't want to go to. Friends would say, "It's ok under these circumstances, but if you continue to use it after you're better, we'll know you're full of shit."

CK: #13. Anything about having cancer that surprised you?

MM: I was coming from this whole da Silvano restaurant world, twenty-year-old blonds ricocheting off my husband and that made me feel really insecure. Then I realized that there was this great sisterhood of survivors out there who are really caring. It's ironic, but the worst situations bring out the best in people.

CK: #14. Did you have any secret weapons to help you through it?

MM: Lipgloss and shoes. It was more of a secret attitude. I just really believe that if I look better then I will feel better.