LOS ANGELES — Joyce Farmer is a surprise. The gentle, white-haired 71-year-old, whom you'd half-expect to greet you at the door with a pan of steaming muffins, recently has emerged as one of the most provocative voices in the comics and graphic literature landscape.
Her debut book, the 208-page illustrated memoir "Special Exits,"...
CHICAGO -- It's been a tough time of late for adventurous redheads on the comics pages. Little Orphan Annie ran out of tomorrows six months ago. Now, the deadline is fast approaching for reporter Brenda Starr's final edition.
After one last office holiday party on Jan. 2, the seven-day-a-week "Brenda Starr, Reporter" will go the way of...
LOS ANGELES — Cathy Guisewite doesn't know what the last four panels of her "Cathy" comic strip will look like when they run in 700 daily and Sunday U.S newspapers in early October. In fact, even after a nearly nonstop, 34-year run of putting words in the mouth and anxieties in the mind of her alter ego, she's hard-pressed during an...
