Cartooning

Illustration

Drawing End of Life story-telling

Sketch-note-taking

Cartooning and Illustrations

Susan is Cartoonist-in-Residence for Grief Matters, a non-profit research group working to increase awareness of grief "so that we can all better support ourselves, others and our communities.”

She spent November, 2024 at the Can Serrat International Art Residency, Spain, working on visual narrations about health care and compassion. She was also invited to the first-ever Banff Centre for Arts and Creativity’s Graphic Novel and Visual Narratives residency, 2022. She has studied at the Center for Cartoon Studies, Vermont, and completed the year-long intensive online comics course, Sequential Artists’ Workshop, Florida. Susan holds a Bachelor of Fine Arts from NSCAD University.

Visualizing End of Life Storytelling

I can help make a conversation about your death and wishes easier by drawing friendly visuals of your end-of-life wishes concerning where you hope to be at death, who you want around you, and the ambience of the room.

Sketch note-taking

Capture the content of meetings, conferences and conversations in real time using compelling, shareable visuals.

Here’s a sample of my work. See ALL my cartoons on Instagram!

Check out my latest cartoon for Grief Matters: https://griefmatters.ca/grief-cartoons/cooking-for-dead-people @macdonald2433 @susancadell #grief #cooking #dead #hospice #hospicenurse @_mas_house_ (Thank you!) @veronica.post.comics
https://griefmatters.ca/grief-cartoons/grief-with-strangers
Saturday self-portrait. #selfportrait #sketch #sketchbook
My latest cartoon for Grief Matters as official Cartoonist in Residence, a position I'm enjoying and am learning so much from! Their commentary for the post: "Musicals, community grieving, and the theatre as a safe haven for #grief: all of which
If you're in the vicinity, please drop by. (The drawings will be there for the month of May.) @laraonagricola #sketch #carnetdevoyage #sketchbook #travel
Naples!