Special exits by joyce farmer

At the time, she and creative partner Lyn Chevli self-published an edgy comic with a name that can’t be printed here. Clay Wilson, Gilbert Shelton and the rest of the Zap Comix crew.

She was born and brought up in South Los Angeles and was a feminist figure in the underground comics movement of the 1970s, along with Crumb, S. To be fair, Farmer is more of a reemerging voice in comics. “Nobody else will ever do anything like that again.” “It’s a completely unique work,” he says. Her debut book, the 208-page illustrated memoir “Special Exits,” chronicling the slow, freaky decline and ultimate death of her elderly parents, comes out this monthfrom Fantagraphics carrying the enthusiastic endorsement of no less than R. The gentle, white-haired 71-year-old, whom you’d half expect to greet you at the door with a pan of steaming muffins, recently has emerged as one of the most provocative voices in the comics and graphic literature landscape. LOS ANGELES - Joyce Farmer is a surprise.