Graphic novelist Joyce Farmer to speak

Joyce Farmer will present “No Superheroes: Creating Underground Comics,” on Thursday, April 24, 7–8:30 p.m., in Foster Auditorium, Penn State University Park.

Farmer

Farmer…co-founder of Nanny Goat Productions

Joyce Farmer, together with Lyn Chevely, was the creator of the “Tits & Clits Comix” series from 1972 to 1987. They had formed a publishing company, Nanny Goat Productions, to counter the sexism they saw in male-produced underground comix of the time. Apart from this series, they also produced “Abortion Eve,” in 1973. Farmer also contributed to the influential all-female underground comics anthology, “Wimmen’s Comix,” which was published from the early 1970s through 1992. In 2000, Farmer published her work in the Fantagraphics anthology, “Zero Zero.” In 2010, Fantagraphics published her graphic memoir, “Special Exits,” chronicling the decline of her elderly parents’ health, their relationship with one another and with Joyce and how they coped with the day-to-day fragility of the most taxing time of their lives. (Full story on Penn State News.)