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Farmer contributed stories to the remaining
four issues of Tits & Clits, which were
co-published by Nanny Goat Productions
and Last Gasp, the San Francisco
publisher of Wimmen’s Comix, for which
she was also a writer and editor. Farmer’s
story in Issue 10 of Wimmen’s Comix is a
mini-masterpiece, a mostly wordless illustration
of the impact of sexual abuse
on several generations of one family.
Then, as is often the case with women,
Farmer’s life took a different turn. She
was forced to put her creativity on hold
for years, functioning as the caretaker
for her aging parents as they grew old,
suffered failing health, and passed away.
Ever the artist, she spent the following
ten-plus years on a lengthy, painstakingly
illustrated graphic novel on the
subject of aging and death, Special Exits,
published in 2010.
Once again, precisely drawn lines invite
the reader onto the page, to intimately experience
subject matter that may not be
the most comfortable, things better not
thought about. Only this time the topic
is failing health and mortality, not the
exuberance of the Sexual Revolution that
Lyn Chevli and Joyce Farmer laid bare in
the early issues of Tits & Clits.
One of these stories
is a mini-masterpiece,
a mostly wordless
illustration of the impact
of sexual abuse on
several generations of
one family.
…precisely drawn lines
invite the reader onto
the page, to intimately
experience subject matter
that may not be the most
comfortable…
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Roberta Gregory is an
award-winning comics
creator best known for her
“Bitchy Bitch” character
featured in Fantagraphics’
13-year-long Naughty
Bits series. She lives and
works in Seattle.
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