Absolutely. When i worked for Marvel both my parents were diagnosed with cancer (my father had lung cancer and my mother had breast cancer). Once my fathers cancer started to progress I decided to move in with my parents to help my mom... https://twitter.com/_mangekyougod_/status/1287193906585702401

...he’d get up through the night and fall and she wasn’t strong enough to pick him up. So i packed up my art supplies and moved in. That was the first time my father watched me work and got an understanding of what i did professionally. Pretty cool!

My editor at Marvel would check in and tell me if i needed any help with work to just let them know. I refused. I worked through it some how. I watched my father go from around 180lbs to next to nothing. To helping him go to the bathroom...

To helping him out of the bathtub. I’d never witnessed someone basically slipping away slowly. Eventually hospice put a bed in the living room for him (where i worked) and he was on morphine. I’d have to sit beside him on his bed to hold him up...

The one thing that sticks with me to this day is remembering he didn’t want to go to bed, he didn’t want to not wake up. He didn’t want to die despite always saying to me “you’re going to do if something some time”, he didn’t want to leave my mom...

I worked and worked through it. I stayed up working until he finally went to bed. I was always awake and working when he got up. He’s say “boy, do you ever sleep?” I told him I’ll sleep when I’m dead (he laughed).

I was there, awake as usual when one day there was no more “boy, do you ever sleep?” That was rough no matter how i tried to prepare myself for it mentally. I did something i never thought i had the strength to do. I never gave up a single page work...

Mostly because I’m fucking stubborn. But most importantly, i wanted him to see me doing what i loves no matter what. He worked hard his whole life raising six boys. He was an artist that never got a shot at a career in art.

Working while he had a chance to see it was my way of saying thank you.