Henrietta Lacks is the only immortal person to date, although she died in 1951 after receiving vaginal radium treatment for uterine cancer. Her cancer cells are the source of the HeLa cell line, the first immortalized human cell line. You can learn about her story in my comic strip Vita Obscura on March 13, 2021 in  FAZ Magazin.

You can also still  get a collection of all previous episodes in my book Vita Obscura.

It took a full 77 panels to capture the incredible life of Lee Miller. Supermodel, surrealist, muse, globetrotter, war correspondent and documentary photographer of Nazi crimes. Lee Miller lived more lives than most people. You can learn about her story in my comic strip Vita Obscura on February 13, 2021 in  FAZ Magazin.

You can also still  get a collection of all previous episodes in my book Vita Obscura.

The latest episode of my series Vita Obscura on January 9, 2021 in  FAZ Magazine is dedicated to the public official Chiune Sugihara and his wife Yukiko. Together they helped around 10,000 mostly Polish Jews to flee from Lithuania to Japan in 1940, contrary to orders from the japanese government. They saved ten times as many lives as Oskar Schindler.

You can also still  get a collection of all previous episodes in my book Vita Obscura.