#pendiy

"If you ever encounter death your first instinct is to run, or kill it, but you're missing the opportunity of a lifetime, to hire death as your life coach." Drawing on her experiences as a woman in the male-dominated industries of advertising and cartooning, The New Yorker cartoonist Marisa Marchetto illustrated five key steps during last week's #PENDIY that led her from being a “cancer victim" to the author of the bestselling graphic memoir Cancer Vixen. #PENpodcast

Jennifer Weiner at PEN DIY, 4/6/15

Ohhhh AMANDA! @amandapalmer #pendiy (at Ace Hotel New York)

I deliberately filled up my social calendar last week with creative and cultural activities so that I would have more than enough inspiration to write from. The line-up of events included a reading...