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request edit March 9, #1

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Hello, wondering if we can update the article to add information about his latest book. Thank you. Suggested new info:

Add: In 2019, he illustrated The Wig Diaries, a cancer guide written by Mary Ladd. ^[1]^[2]

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^ Jones, Kevin L. (November 5, 2019). "SF writer laughs at cancer with 'Wig Diaries,' a guide for grown-ups". San Francisco Chronicle. Hearst. Retrieved March 10, 2020. After being diagnosed with breast cancer in 2013, Mary Ladd needed a laugh. Then she started chemotherapy and found that she needed humor in her life more than ever — and Don Asmussen's comedic timing couldn't have been more perfect. "Hope you are having fun with wigs," Asmussen wrote in an email to Ladd when he first heard of her diagnosis. "When I first shaved my head, my 3-year-old daughter Tessa asked 'Where's your hat?' She thought all along I was wearing a hat that looked like hair. I have cancer to thank for that knowledge." The Chronicle's award-winning cartoonist, creator of the Bad Reporter comic strip that runs in the Datebook on Wednesdays and Fridays, had fought off a 2011 diagnosis of brain cancer himself, so he could commiserate with Ladd. The two became friends more than a decade ago, back when Ladd wrote for The Chronicle's food section, and now they found themselves meeting in "dark places like food courts" to riff on their problems. They even shared tips for, say, constipation caused by chemo…. Now their "sick" humor is out from under the food court shadows for others who may also need a laugh. Last month during Litquake, San Francisco's annual literary festival, the two debuted their new book, "The Wig Diaries." It's a collection of essays by Ladd — many originally published in mass emails sent to friends and family — paired with eight illustrations by Asmussen. The book is a guide of sorts, complete with plenty of profanity and graphic descriptions of what it's like to live with the disease, covering all the realities of Ladd undergoing seven cancer surgeries and 22 rounds of chemotherapy.
^ Freedman, Richard (October 18, 2019). "Cancer doesn't squelch Mary Ladd's humor". Vallejo Times Herald. Digital First Media. Retrieved March 10, 2020. Through it all, however, the 40-year-old maintained her sense of humor, surely finding levity whenever possible. The result emerged as "The Wig Diaries," an 88-page book illustrated by Don Asmussen, noted for his years of drawing and writing the comic, "Bad Reporter," for the San Francisco Chronicle.

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Clarification requested

Please provide the Wikilink of the author and/or the publication.

Regards, Spintendo 13:42, 19 March 2020 (UTC)[reply]

@Spintendo: There is not yet a Wikilink but does this citation provide relevant info? Note the book received media coverage and was blurbed by noteworthy writers Mary Roach, Daniel Handler (Lemony Snicket) and Vanessa Hua. Ladd, Mary (October 10, 2019). The Wig Diaries. Wig Industries. ISBN 1734133309.. Thanks 2602:306:CEFE:5510:FD1C:30B5:10C3:3114 (talk) 23:15, 20 March 2020 (UTC)[reply]

[1] Jones, Kevin L. (November 5, 2019). "SF writer laughs at cancer with 'Wig Diaries,' a guide for grown-ups". San Francisco Chronicle. Hearst. Retrieved March 10, 2020. After being diagnosed with breast cancer in 2013, Mary Ladd needed a laugh. Then she started chemotherapy and found that she needed humor in her life more than ever — and Don Asmussen's comedic timing couldn't have been more perfect. "Hope you are having fun with wigs," Asmussen wrote in an email to Ladd when he first heard of her diagnosis. "When I first shaved my head, my 3-year-old daughter Tessa asked 'Where's your hat?' She thought all along I was wearing a hat that looked like hair. I have cancer to thank for that knowledge." The Chronicle's award-winning cartoonist, creator of the Bad Reporter comic strip that runs in the Datebook on Wednesdays and Fridays, had fought off a 2011 diagnosis of brain cancer himself, so he could commiserate with Ladd. The two became friends more than a decade ago, back when Ladd wrote for The Chronicle's food section, and now they found themselves meeting in "dark places like food courts" to riff on their problems. They even shared tips for, say, constipation caused by chemo…. Now their "sick" humor is out from under the food court shadows for others who may also need a laugh. Last month during Litquake, San Francisco's annual literary festival, the two debuted their new book, "The Wig Diaries." It's a collection of essays by Ladd — many originally published in mass emails sent to friends and family — paired with eight illustrations by Asmussen. The book is a guide of sorts, complete with plenty of profanity and graphic descriptions of what it's like to live with the disease, covering all the realities of Ladd undergoing seven cancer surgeries and 22 rounds of chemotherapy.

[2] Freedman, Richard (October 18, 2019). "Cancer doesn't squelch Mary Ladd's humor". Vallejo Times Herald. Digital First Media. Retrieved March 10, 2020. Through it all, however, the 40-year-old maintained her sense of humor, surely finding levity whenever possible. The result emerged as "The Wig Diaries," an 88-page book illustrated by Don Asmussen, noted for his years of drawing and writing the comic, "Bad Reporter," for the San Francisco Chronicle.

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