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Home / Joyce Farmer

New Podcast: Joyce Farmer and Paul Gravett in Conversation

Feb. 20, 2013 by Comic Nurse

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“I put something amusing in every two pages.” – Joyce Farmer “Every exit should be special.” – Paul Gravett The last session from our 2012 Comics & Medicine conference in Toronto presents the magnificent Joyce Farmer in conversation with Paul Gravett. They discuss her long career making comics on medical themes, from “Tits & Clits” to “Abortion Eve” to Special Exits. Use the Quicktime player above to view images along with the audio. If you don’t have Quicktime, you can listen to the audio-only version below. The featured image for the podcast is a crayoned self-portrait Joyce did during Michael Green and… Read More

Categories: Comics and Medicine, Conference Presenters, Podcast, Podcasts, Toronto 2012, Uncategorized Tags: Abortion Eve, caregiving, elderly, Fantagraphics, geriatric, Joyce Farmer, Paul Gravett, Special Exits, Tits & Clits

New Podcast: Comics & Caregiving

Dec. 26, 2012 by Comic Nurse

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Use the Quicktime player above to view images along with the audio. If you don’t have Quicktime, you can listen to the audio-only version below. Our eleventh panel from Toronto and they just keep getting better and better! I, MK, had the honor of moderating this panel and am quite pleased to revisit and post it here. The first speaker is Michelle N. Huang,  a Master’s Student and University Graduate Fellow at The Pennsylvania State University. Her research interests include disability studies, war literature, and cultural studies in the twentieth century. She writes of her paper, The “Good Enough Daughter”… Read More

Categories: Comics and Medicine, Conference Presenters, Graphic Novels, Podcast, Podcasts, Toronto 2012, Uncategorized Tags: Alzheimer's, Ameila DeFalco, care ethics, caregiving, curography, disability, disability ethics, Harvey Pekar, Joyce Brabner, Joyce Farmer, McMaster University, Michelle Huang, Our Cancer Year, Penn State, Sarah Leavitt, Special Exits, Tangles, Winnicott

Joyce Farmer: sex, politics and aging parents

Jul. 16, 2012 by Sarah Leavitt

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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. I’ll get back to Special Exits in a minute, but first I want to make sure to tell you about her work from the 70s. I wish I’d been more familiar with it… Read More

Categories: Conference Presenters, Toronto 2012 Tags: aging, comics, comics and medicine, geriatrics, Graphic Medicine, Joyce Farmer, medical humanities, Sarah Leavitt, Toronto, University of Toronto

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