Joyce Farmer: sex, politics and aging parents

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Outside the world of underground comix enthusiasts, Joyce Farmer is probably best known for her latest work, Special Exits (Fantagraphics 2010), a memoir (though the names are changed) of her experience caring for her parents during the last few years of their lives. Special Exits is Farmer's first book-length comic, famously praised by Robert Crumb, but Farmer has been an important figure in comics since the 1970s.

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