Lyn Chevli
| Lyn Chevli | |
|---|---|
| File:LynChevli.jpg Lyn Chevli in 2012 | |
| Born | December 24, 1931 Connecticut |
| Died | October 8, 2016 Laguna Beach, California |
| Nationality | American |
| Area(s) | Cartoonist, Writer, Editor, Publisher |
| Pseudonym(s) | Lyn Chevely Chin Lyvely |
Notable works | Tits & Clits Comix Abortion Eve Pandora's Box |
Lyn Chevli – also credited as Lyn Chevely and Chin Lyvely[1] – (December 24, 1931 – October 8, 2016)[2] was an American cartoonist, a participant in the underground comix movement. With Joyce Farmer, she created the feminist anthology comic book series Tits & Clits Comix in 1972, and Abortion Eve, a 1973 educational comic about women's newly-guaranteed reproductive rights.
Biography
Chevli was born in Connecticut, where she graduated from Skidmore College[3] and exhibited at the International Festival of Arts as a sculptor.[3] She moved to Laguna Beach in 1961,[3] where she owned Fahrenheit 451 Books, opened by her ex-husband Dennis Madison in 1968, and sold in 1972.[3]
She and Farmer founded Nanny Goat Productions as a feminist publishing company, with the goal of giving a voice to female creators in the male-dominated (and often misogynist) underground comix movement.[4] Tits & Clits Comix was the first product of that initiative, preceding the influential Wimmen's Comix by two months. The comic book became the focus of controversy when the new owner of Fahrenheit 451 was charged with selling "obscene" materials.
In June 1973, following the Roe v. Wade Supreme Court decision, she and Farmer published Abortion Eve, an educational comic begun the year before, about women's reproductive rights. Drawing upon their experiences as pregnancy counselors at Laguna's Free Clinic,[4] the single-issue comic presented the stories of five women – all of them named variations on Eve, each in differing circumstances – going the process of obtaining abortions.[5]
Pandora's Box was another of Chevli's comics. Through Last Gasp, she and Farmer continued publishing issues of Tits & Clits irregularly until 1987. In her later years, Chevli wrote a book based on her life as an underground comix publisher,[3] but had not published it at the time of her death.
References
- ^ Tits & Clits, ComicBookDB.com. Accessed Sept. 15, 2011.
- ^ Roberta Gregory. "".
- ^ a b c d e "Humor from the underground". Coastline Pilot. Retrieved 2016-10-10.
- ^ a b Betsy Gomez, ed. (2016). She Changed Comics. Comic Book Legal Defense Fund.
- ^ "The Comic Book That Guided Women Through Abortion Months After 'Roe' - Rewire". Rewire. Retrieved 2016-10-10.
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