Tits & Clits 1972-1987

This is radical feminist cartooning dealing with real issues head-on and in uncompromising fashion.– “Four Color Apocalypse”

Joyce Farmer co-created the series Tits & Clits Comix (1972-1987), long beloved by comic lovers and more recently by feminists. She has also appeared in Wimmen’s Comix (1975-1987), Wet Satin (1976-1978), ZeroZero (2000), What Right (2002), No Straight Lines (2012), Best American Comics (2012), Graphic Reproduction (2018), Drawing Power (2019), and Menopause (2020). Farmer documented her parents’ aging in the graphic novel Special Exits (2010), for which she won Reuben and Inkpot awards and was nominated for the Eisner. That book has been translated into five languages. She lives in Laguna Beach, CA.

Lyn Chevli (1931-2016) was born Marilyn Keith in Milford, Connecticut. She (and her then-husband Dennis Madison) opened the bookstore Fahrenheit 451 in Laguna Beach in 1970. She subsequently partnered up with Joyce Farmer and formed Nanny Goat Productions. During her career as an underground cartoonist, Chevli romped in the surf with feminist Kate Millet, entertained Sergio Aragones, and partied with Gilbert Shelton, R. Crumb, S. Clay Wilson, Harvey Kurtzman and others. Lyn was also a sculptor, first welding on the balcony of her Park Ave apartment in a bikini and later working with mixed media, mostly bones. Her novel, Alida: An Erotic Novel appeared in 1981. She contributed essays to Words in Our Pockets: The Feminist Writers Guild Handbook (1981) and Herotica (1988).

Roberta Gregory is an American comic book writer and artist best known for the character Bitchy Bitch from her Fantagraphics Books series Naughty Bits. She was a prolific contributor to many influential feminist and underground anthologies, such as Wimmen’s Comix and Gay Comix. She lives in La Conner, WA.

Trina Robbins (1939-2024) was an American cartoonist and comics herstorian. She was an early participant and one of the first women in the underground comix movement. She co-produced the 1970 underground comic It Ain’t Me, Babe, which was the first comic book entirely created by women. She co-founded the Wimmen’s Comix collective, wrote for Wonder Woman, and produced adaptations of Dope and The Silver Metal Lover. She was inducted into the Will Eisner Hall of Fame in 2013 and received Eisner Awards in 2017 and 2021. As a scholar and historian, Robbins researched the history of women in cartooning. She wrote several nonfiction books including Pretty In Ink (2013), and Flapper Queens: Women Cartoonists of the Jazz Age (2020).

Lee Marrs is an American cartoonist and animator, and one of the first female underground comix creators. She is best known for her comic book series The Further Fattening Adventures of Pudge, Girl Blimp and is one of the founders of the Wimmen’s Comix collective. In 1982, she received the comics industry’s Inkpot Award.

Samantha Meier is an archivist, editrix, and occasional public historian who lives and works in Flagstaff, Arizona. Her research on women’s underground comix began with her undergraduate honors thesis at Harvard College, Twisted Sisters: Women’s Comix and Cultural Action, which was awarded the 2012 James A. Davis Prize for Exemplary Thesis in Sociology. Meier’s writing on comix has appeared in various publications, including Bitch Media, Fusion, and the Women’s Review of Books, and she has presented her research at various academic conferences.