Joyce Brabner Video | Celebrity Interview and Paparazzi

Joyce Brabner (born March 1, 1952) is a writer of political comics and a sometime collaborator with her late husband Harvey Pekar. Brabner is also a liberal social activist, most recently championing Coventry Village in Cleveland Heights, Ohio, the neighborhood in which she resides, with a series of imaginative special events begun in 2007. Brabner recalls "read[ing] comics when I was five or six years old - including "Mad Magazine", her first exposure to political satire. Drifting away from comics as she grew older and discovered that "for the same amount of money I could get on the bus... MORE

Joyce Brabner (born March 1, 1952) is a writer of political comics and a sometime collaborator with her late husband Harvey Pekar. Brabner is also a liberal social activist, most recently championing Coventry Village in Cleveland Heights, Ohio, the neighborhood in which she resides, with a series of imaginative special events begun in 2007. Brabner recalls "read[ing] comics when I was five or six years old - including "Mad Magazine", her first exposure to political satire. Drifting away from comics as she grew older and discovered that "for the same amount of money I could get on the bus and go down to the library," she nevertheless remembered "a lot of what I'd read." Living "in Delaware working with people in prison, with kids in trouble," running a non-profit culture-based support program for inmates in the Delaware correctional system, Brabner was a founder and manager of "The Rondo Hatton Center for the Deforming Arts," a small theater space in Wilmington, Delaware. (Hatton played horror roles — The Creeper — in the early 1940s without makeup because he was severely disfigured by a glandular disease.) During this time, Brabner became friendly with "two sometime artists who LESS