Alex Brenchley is an artist and cartoonist based in London. His work has been published by the BBC, the NHS, Literary Review, Tinpot Records, Universal Records, and The New Statesman magazine has featured his ‘This England’ cartoon series in every issue since February 2017. Alex was diagnosed with stage 3 bowel cancer in his 30s and, following a year of chemotherapy, radiotherapy and surgeries, he is currently in remission. 

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Alex Brenchley

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Comic

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Panel 2 of a six-panel comic drawn digitally: Speech bubbles read "How... [long pause] are you?*" and "How are... errm... things?*". The word things is italicised. The asterisk below says "Please don't make me use the word 'cancer'!"

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