(Hatton played horror roles – The Creeper – in the early 1940s without makeup because he was severely disfigured by a glandular disease.)ĭuring this time, Brabner became friendly with 'two sometime artists who were very involved in comic fandom', which 'seemed like a lot of fun.' Feeling burned out from 'working with courts, with sexual abusers of children and so on,' Brabner began working with Tom Watkins, who 'was doing a lot of costumes for the Phil Seuling comic shows.' Moonlighting 'as a costumer while continuing to work in the prison programs had organized on own,' while not spending much time at conventions or comic shops, she nevertheless eventually became co-owner of a comic book (and theatrical costumes) store herself. 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. 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.'

Joyce Brabner (born March 1, 1952) is a writer of political comics and the widow of Harvey Pekar.īrabner recalls 'read comics when I was five or six years old – including Mad Magazine, her first exposure to political satire.

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