![Panel 1 of a four-panel comic drawn digitally: a white man with a moustache in a plaid shirt says to a bemused black woman with an undercut "My bowels have a life of their own". The caption text reads "Now I have finished cancer treatment"](https://images.prismic.io/wellcomecollection/ba05f162-0b14-401d-ad94-a09bbdf2d65e_LAC+Panel+6.1.png?w=1338&auto=compress%2Cformat&rect=&q=100)
![Panel 2 of a four-panel comic drawn digitally: a white man with a moustache in a plaid shirt says to a bemused man wearing a gold coloured turban "Fatigue hits me out of nowhere". The caption text reads "I'm not sure what to say"](https://images.prismic.io/wellcomecollection/a1d0c040-0eab-4796-aeaa-5eb781ad2f81_LAC+Panel+6.2.png?w=1338&auto=compress%2Cformat&rect=&q=100)
![Panel 3 of a four-panel comic drawn digitally: a white man with a moustache in a plaid shirt says to a bemused white woman in a squiggly-patterned dress "I'm still getting peripheral neuropathy". The caption text reads "When people ask..."](https://images.prismic.io/wellcomecollection/f17f16d2-86ef-49c4-a963-eadb4b782788_LAC+Panel+6.3.png?w=1338&auto=compress%2Cformat&rect=&q=100)
![Panel 4 of a four-panel comic drawn digitally: a white man with a moustache in a plaid shirt says to a bemused white man with tattoed arms "I'm fine thanks. How are you?". The caption text reads "How are you?"](https://images.prismic.io/wellcomecollection/c280d929-3d92-44b7-bf17-64f1720033fd_LAC+Panel+6.4.png?w=1338&auto=compress%2Cformat&rect=&q=100)
Direct Response. © Alex Brenchley for Wellcome Collection.
About the artist
Alex Brenchley
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.