12 Facts About Joyce Farmer

Joyce Farmer was a participant in the underground comix movement.

Joyce Farmer was born in Los Angeles, California, in 1938.

Joyce Farmer briefly attended Art Center School in Pasadena in the 1950s before dropping out.

Joyce Farmer later attended the University of California, Irvine, where she obtained a bachelor's degree in the Classics.

Joyce Farmer later shared about her personal experience with abortion, which partially inspired the comic.

Some of Farmer's earliest cartooning work is signed Joyce Sutton, causing people to believe this is her birth name, rather than her husband's last name.

Joyce Farmer changed her legal name back to Farmer in the mid-1970s.

Since she never made much money from underground comics, Joyce Farmer struggled financially occasionally through the 1970s and 1980s.

Joyce Farmer worked as a bail bondsman in addition to her cartooning, even opening her own bail bonds business in the early 1980s.

Joyce Farmer began to care of her aging father and stepmother in the 1990s.

Joyce Farmer started documenting in comics form the sad and sometimes humorous episodes of her parents' final years, sending samples to former fellow underground cartoonist Robert Crumb.

Joyce Farmer's work has appeared in anthologies such as ZeroZero, What Right, No Straight Lines, Best American Comics, Graphic Reproduction, Drawing Power, and Menopause.