why in the world did I write the graphic novel, Where in the World Are My Boobs? Here’s the story.
It starts out a bit scary, but it gets better, so don’t worry.
I had breast cancer. Twice. The first time, they did chemo, radiation, and a lumpectomy, but then it came back. Lucky for me, it was curable but this time they weren’t taking any chances: I had to have a double mastectomy. Afterwards, I started to heal and find a way to go on with my life.
At the end of my three-month follow-up, I went home and looked at the patient portal to see the notes. Everything seemed unremarkable until I got to this sentence: “The patients breasts are absent.” This stopped me in my tracks. Absent? Where were they? Ridiculous scenarios of their wild adventures flooded into my brain and a story began to unfold. It was silly. It was absurd. It made me laugh.
The laughing part was key. The most terrible moments of breast cancer were when I felt so sick from chemo, or fried from radiation, or just so scared that I completely lost my sense of humor. Without that, I truly felt I ceased to exist. Finding the humor in the awful moments is the only way I got through.
That’s why I wrote Where in the World Are My Boobs? To take this heavy, dark and scary thing that had happened to me and turn it into something funny. Once I finished it, I thought maybe it’ll make other people laugh too.
claudia silver
has received four Emmy nominations for her work as a writer and producer of children’s television on shows such Bear in the Big Blue House and The Rocketeer and written on many others including Marvel’s Spidey and his Amazing Friends and Arthur.She has also written pilots for NBC, USA, Amazon, Disney Jr. and Nickelodeon. Her award-winning short film Kalamazoo aired on Sundance Channel as part of She Said Cinema. It also aired on IFC, Bravo, and PBS’s series Reel NY.
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