Marisa Acocella Marchetto

The Big She-Bang is the latest graphic novel from Marisa Acocella Marchetto. She is the author of The New York Times best-selling graphic novel Ann Tenna, the graphic memoir Cancer Vixen, and Just Who the Hell is She, Anyway? Marchetto is also a cartoonist for The New Yorker, whose work has appeared in The New York Times, Glamour, and O, The Oprah Magazine. She is also the founder of the Marisa Acocella Marchetto Foundation which funds free integrative therapies and cold caps (which prevent hair loss from chemotherapy) at the Mount Sinai Beth Israel Comprehensive Cancer Center, where the Foundation also supports a complete empowerment program that includes yoga, Chi Qong, journaling, exercise, meditation, sound therapy, and nutrition. The Foundation's mission: No breast left behind.