Whaleboats Under Sail

The New York Times Book Review (December 3), has a write-up by Douglas Wolk about Joyce Farmer's graphic novel, Special Exits: My Parents, a Memoir (Fantagraphics, 2010), which chronicles the story of her father's and step-mother's last years. Wolk calls it "forceful, unsparing and equally concerned, in its way, with saying the unsayable."

You can read the complete review of several recently released comics here. These are great words to summarize Joyce's work with.