![Panel 1 of a four-panel comic drawn digitally: a white man with a moustache and a plaid shirt sits poised to put a burger in his mouth with his left hand, his right hand holding a pen and writing in a notebook. The caption text reads "I've found it helps to keep a food diary. I note down everything going in..."](https://images.prismic.io/wellcomecollection/564a0527-ec6a-4efe-83cd-6decbb66b5b6_LAC+Panel+3.1.png?w=1338&auto=compress%2Cformat&rect=&q=100)
![Panel 2 of a four-panel comic drawn digitally: a white man with a moustache and a plaid shirt sits on the toilet with corduroy trousers around his ankles. His face is clenched and his hand is poised with a pen ready to write in a notebook held in his other hand. The caption text reads "... and everything going out"](https://images.prismic.io/wellcomecollection/6df12ae5-c814-4231-ba58-a8ce26328717_LAC+Panel+3.2.png?w=1338&auto=compress%2Cformat&rect=&q=100)
![Panel 3 of a four-panel comic drawn digitally: the face of a white man with a moustache labelled Alex Brenchley is on a folded piece of card labelled "Authors of the week" beside the image and name of Alan Bennett. The caption text reads "I've often fancied myself as a writer"](https://images.prismic.io/wellcomecollection/a95e2ca0-1596-430b-8df1-9f47468c9abc_LAC+Panel+3.3.png?w=1338&auto=compress%2Cformat&rect=&q=100)
![Panel 4 of a four-panel comic drawn digitally: two sets of folded card are on a table, one reading "Alex's Food and Poop Diary" with a big stack of books behind it and the other "Writing Home; Diaries of Alan Bennett" has no books and instead has a "Sold Out!" label. The caption text reads "But I doubt I'd be very successful"](https://images.prismic.io/wellcomecollection/e3a6f11e-e3a6-465b-91ba-870e13835978_LAC+Panel+3.4.png?w=1338&auto=compress%2Cformat&rect=&q=100)
Bestseller. © 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.