Movie – Long Live My Happy Head

'Long live my happy head' is a documentary of Gordon Shaw, a UK-based comic book author who was diagnosed with a low-grade tumour aged 32 that progressed to a high-grade tumour. The movie focuses on Gordon and his partner Shawn and how they go through the most difficult time together. The movie uses Gordon's illustrations and comics to tell his experience of living with a brain tumour.

Content Warning: Death / Dying

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Read the excerpt from the movie homepage or watch the trailer.

Long Live My Happy Head is a film about cancer and comic books, but it’s fundamentally a love story. We journey with Gordon and Shawn through one of the most difficult times of their lives only to see them emerge from the other side even stronger than before. Through intimately captured observational footage and video diary, stylised key interviews and animations created from Gordon’s comic illustrations, this film immerses the audience in Gordon’s world, and reveals how art, love and a sense of humour can soothe our deepest fears of mortality and losing the people we care most about.

The movie is not publicly available at present. We are in contact with the production team to hopefully provide the full movie on Brain Tumours Online.

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