Talk:Don Asmussen
This article is rated Start-class on Wikipedia's content assessment scale. It is of interest to the following WikiProjects: | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
|
Fair use rationale for Image:Badreporter.gif
Please go to
If there is other fair use media, consider checking that you have specified the fair use rationale on the other images used on this page. Note that any fair use images uploaded after 4 May, 2006, and lacking such an explanation will be deleted one week after they have been uploaded, as described on criteria for speedy deletion. If you have any questions please ask them at the Media copyright questions page. Thank you.
BetacommandBot 03:29, 26 October 2007 (UTC)
External links modified
Hello fellow Wikipedians,
I have just modified one external link on Don Asmussen. Please take a moment to review my edit. If you have any questions, or need the bot to ignore the links, or the page altogether, please visit this simple FaQ for additional information. I made the following changes:
- Added archive https://web.archive.org/web/20090116033800/http://www.salon.com:80/archives/dasmussen.html to http://www.salon.com/archives/dasmussen.html
When you have finished reviewing my changes, please set the checked parameter below to true or failed to let others know (documentation at {{
).
This message was posted before February 2018.
{{source check
- If you have discovered URLs which were erroneously considered dead by the bot, you can report them with this tool.
- If you found an error with any archives or the URLs themselves, you can fix them with this tool.
Cheers.—InternetArchiveBot (Report bug) 06:07, 15 December 2016 (UTC)
request edit March 9, #1
This edit request by an editor with a conflict of interest was declined. The request was not specific enough. |
Hello, wondering if we can update the article to add information about his latest book. Thank you. Suggested new info:
Add: In 2019, he illustrated The Wig Diaries, a cancer guide written by Mary Ladd. [1][2]
2602:306:CEFE:5510:4093:1A15:15FF:3D5 (talk) 00:01, 11 March 2020 (UTC)
References
- ^ Jones, Kevin L. (November 5, 2019). "SF writer laughs at cancer with 'Wig Diaries,' a guide for grown-ups". San Francisco Chronicle. Hearst. Retrieved March 10, 2020.
After being diagnosed with breast cancer in 2013, Mary Ladd needed a laugh. Then she started chemotherapy and found that she needed humor in her life more than ever — and Don Asmussen's comedic timing couldn't have been more perfect. "Hope you are having fun with wigs," Asmussen wrote in an email to Ladd when he first heard of her diagnosis. "When I first shaved my head, my 3-year-old daughter Tessa asked 'Where's your hat?' She thought all along I was wearing a hat that looked like hair. I have cancer to thank for that knowledge." The Chronicle's award-winning cartoonist, creator of the Bad Reporter comic strip that runs in the Datebook on Wednesdays and Fridays, had fought off a 2011 diagnosis of brain cancer himself, so he could commiserate with Ladd. The two became friends more than a decade ago, back when Ladd wrote for The Chronicle's food section, and now they found themselves meeting in "dark places like food courts" to riff on their problems. They even shared tips for, say, constipation caused by chemo…. Now their "sick" humor is out from under the food court shadows for others who may also need a laugh. Last month during Litquake, San Francisco's annual literary festival, the two debuted their new book, "The Wig Diaries." It's a collection of essays by Ladd — many originally published in mass emails sent to friends and family — paired with eight illustrations by Asmussen. The book is a guide of sorts, complete with plenty of profanity and graphic descriptions of what it's like to live with the disease, covering all the realities of Ladd undergoing seven cancer surgeries and 22 rounds of chemotherapy.
- ^ Freedman, Richard (October 18, 2019). "Cancer doesn't squelch Mary Ladd's humor". Vallejo Times Herald. Digital First Media. Retrieved March 10, 2020.
Through it all, however, the 40-year-old maintained her sense of humor, surely finding levity whenever possible. The result emerged as "The Wig Diaries," an 88-page book illustrated by Don Asmussen, noted for his years of drawing and writing the comic, "Bad Reporter," for the San Francisco Chronicle.
Reply 19-MAR-2020
- Please provide the Wikilinkof the author and/or the publication.
Regards, Spintendo 13:42, 19 March 2020 (UTC)
@]