![Panel 1 of a four-panel comic drawn digitally: a man with a plaid shirt and corduroy trousers stands outside Le Poshe Noshe restaurant reading the menu on the wall beside another person with a bright checked shirt, pink trousers and handbag.
The caption text reads "Cancer has affected me in many ways"](https://images.prismic.io/wellcomecollection/13b6c88d-19e2-4f94-b3cc-66913ceb7157_LAC+Panel+9.1.png?w=1338&auto=compress%2Cformat&rect=&q=100)
![Panel 2 of a four-panel comic drawn digitally: a man with a plaid shirt and corduroy trousers sits at a restaurant table, menu before him, grimacing. The waiter with pencil moustache, red waistcoat and bow tie states "The specials today are: iguana bisque, deep fried lamb foetus, and scotch bonnet and cabbage broth"
The caption text reads "including my diet"](https://images.prismic.io/wellcomecollection/e78846d3-5a25-4153-955a-cfd7f42561f1_LAC+Panel+9.2.png?w=1338&auto=compress%2Cformat&rect=&q=100)
![Panel 3 of a four-panel comic drawn digitally: a man with a plaid shirt and corduroy trousers sits at a restaurant table, handing the menu to the waiter and saying with a smile "Just a dry bread roll please"
The caption text reads "I'm no food critic anymore"](https://images.prismic.io/wellcomecollection/6d429539-20ca-4e43-85b7-d97fca62de16_LAC+Panel+9.3.png?w=1338&auto=compress%2Cformat&rect=&q=100)
![Panel 4 of a four-panel comic drawn digitally: a man with a plaid shirt and corduroy trousers sits on the toilet in the stance of Rodin's Thinker (elbow on knee with hand raised to chin and a pensive expression). His coat is crumpled on the floor in front of him. He thinks "Abundance of loo roll, spacious cubicle, but no hook to hang your coat... four stars"
The caption text reads "But I know my toilets"](https://images.prismic.io/wellcomecollection/a5786cc6-7499-42f4-bedd-32af1e2eaa27_LAC+Panel+9.4.png?w=1338&auto=compress%2Cformat&rect=&q=100)
Everyone's a Critic. © 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.