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A New Times Art Critic Reconnects with Underground Comic Icon Joyce Farmer, the Person Who First Inspired Her to Be One

By Kathleen Vanesian February 10, 2011

California artist and fabled '70s underground cartoonist Joyce Farmer was using raw meat to make a statement decades before Lady Gaga ever dreamed of showing up at a music awards show in a designer gown made of... More >>>

6 Images

One of artist Joyce Farmer's favorite
pages from Special Exits, a graphic novel 13 years in the making, about the decline and deaths of her parents.

At one point, after a threat of legal
prosecution, one of the Tits & Clits issues
was titled Pandora's Box to avoid trouble.

A young Joyce Farmer plays on the
irrigation pipe that supplied water to her
grandparents' Goodyear cotton ranch in
the 1940s.

A wall of memorabilia in Farmer's Laguna Beach studio.

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A young Joyce Farmer plays on the
irrigation pipe that supplied water to her
grandparents' Goodyear cotton ranch in
the 1940s.

Courtesy of Joyce Farmer

A young Joyce Farmer plays on the irrigation pipe that supplied water to her grandparents' Goodyear cotton ranch in the 1940s.

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