Joyce Farmer

Joyce Farmer
Born	Joyce Sutton^[1] 1938 (age 77–78) Los Angeles, California
Nationality	American
Area(s)	Cartoonist, Writer, Artist, Editor
Notable works	Tits & Clits Comix Special Exits
Awards	National Cartoonists Society's Graphic Novel Award, 2011 Inkpot Award, 2011

Joyce Farmer (born Joyce Sutton; 1938 in Los Angeles, California)^[2] is an American cartoonist. She was a participant in the underground comix movement. With Lyn Chevli, she created the feminist anthology comic book series Tits & Clits Comix in 1972.

In addition to Tits & Clits, Farmer helped produce an underground comic about abortion, Abortion Eve, in 1973. She also contributed to the other all-woman comic, Wimmen's Comix.^[1]

Never making any money from underground comics, Farmer struggled through the 1970s and 1980s in a turbulent marriage, often acting as a single mother.^[2] Dropping out of comics after the final issue of Tits & Clits, in the late 1980s and 1990s Farmer worked as a bail bondsman and took care of her aging father and stepmother.^[2]^[3]

In 2000, her work was published in the Fantagraphics anthology Zero Zero. Remarried and living in Laguna Beach, Farmer began documenting in comics form the sad and sometimes humorous episodes of her parents' final years,^[4] sending samples to former fellow underground cartoonist Robert Crumb. Crumb convinced her to finish the book, and sent it to Fantagraphics, who published it in 2010 under the title Special Exits.^[2]

Awards

In 2011, Special Exits won the National Cartoonists Society's Graphic Novel Award.^[5]

References

1 2 Farmer entry, Lambie Comiclopedia. Retrieved on 2011-2-27.
1 2 3 4 Vankin, Deborah. "R. Crumb: Joyce Farmer’s Special Exits on par with Maus," "Hero Complex," Los Angeles Times (Nov. 28, 2010).
↑ Gallagher, Paul. "Such Small Increments: Joyce Farmer's Special Exits a Moving and Unique Graphic Novel on Old Age and Death," Huffington Post (December 17, 2010).
↑ Wolk, Douglas (2010-12-03). "Comics". The New York Times Sunday Book Review. Retrieved 2011-02-27.
↑ Spurgeon, Tom. "Richard Thompson Wins Reuben; 2011 NCS Division Awards Winners, Comics Reporter (May 28, 2011).

External links

Reviews

Publishers Weekly review, August 16, 2010

Interviews

Dangerous Minds

Underground comix cartoonists

Feminist art movement in the United States

Feminist art Feminist art movement Women artists

Precursors	American Association of University Women (1881) National Association of Women Artists (1889) New York School of Applied Design for Women (1892)

Venues or organizations	A.I.R. Gallery Elizabeth A. Sackler Center for Feminist Art (Brooklyn Museum of Art) Hera Gallery Lesbian Art Project National Museum of Women in the Arts New York Feminist Art Institute Soho20 Chelsea tArt Artist Collective Woman's Building Women's Art Registry of Minnesota

Exhibitions or installations	Womanhouse (1972) Three Weeks in May (1977) WACK! Art and the Feminist Revolution (2007)

Films or documentaries	!Women Art Revolution

Publications	Heresies: A Feminist Publication on Art and Politics (1977–1992) The Feminist Art Journal (1972–1977)

Groups	subRosa Guerrilla Girls The Waitresses Women's Caucus for Art Where We At (WWA)

List of artists and art historians	List of feminist artists List of women art historians

Feminist movements and ideologies

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