Special Exits (Fantagraphics)
Joyce Farmer discusses and signs her graphic novel Special Exits, a memoir in the vein of Alison Bechdel’s Fun Home or Harvey Pekar, Joyce Brabner, and Frank Stack’s Our Cancer Year, about caring for her dying father and stepmother. "One of the best long-narrative comics I've ever read, right up there with Maus... I actually found myself moved to tears." –R. Crumb One of Entertainment Weekly's 10 Best Graphic Novels and Comics of 2010 Named one of "The Most Memorable Comics & Graphic Novels of 2010" by NPR's Glen Weldon Joyce Farmer, together with Lyn Chevely, was the creator of Tits & Clits Comix in 1975. They had formed their own publishing company, Nanny Goat Productions, to counter the sexism they saw in male-produced underground comix of that time. Apart from Tits 'n Clits, they also produced a comic about abortion, 'Abortion Eve', in 1973. Joyce also contributed to the other all-woman comix publication, Wimmen's Comix. In 2000, Joyce Farmer published her work in magazine Zero-Zero. For the last decade-plus, Joyce has been working on her first long-form work, SPECIAL EXITS, a graphic memoir chronicling the decline of the author’s elderly parents’ health, their relationship with one another and with their their daughter, and how they cope with the day-to-day fragility of the most taxing time of their lives. She lives in Laguna Beach, CA. THIS EVENT WAS RECORDED LIVE AT SKYLIGHT BOOKS FEBRUARY 5, 2011.