Eve Furchgott, a.k.a. Even Eve is an American illustrator and underground cartoonist.
Life & Career[]
Furchgott was born in St. Louis, MO in 1953 to Lenore and Robert Furchgott, but grew up in Woodmere, NY (suburb of NYC). Her father, a professor of pharmacology & research scientist, was a Nobel Prize laureate in 1998.
In 1975, while living in the Kerista polyfidelity commune in Haight-Ashbury, San Francisco, she published Far Out West, billed as "The First Utopian Comic Strip", to spread the group's philosophy. The quasi-autobiographical story follows a young woman on a quest led by a supercomputer for the "righteous high", meaning the best way of life. In the early 70s she met Trina Robbins in San Francisco, who invited her to participate in the Wimmen's Comix project, but — due to her membership in the exclusionary Kerista cult — she had to decline. Far Out West continued to chronicle Eve's & the commune's progress in periodic strips (published in the group's various newspapers in the Bay Area) until 1991, when the group disbanded.
She currently lives in Hawaii with her husband Tom, having worked for many years as a freelance children's book illustrator (of Hawaiian language children's books), graphic designer and printmaker. Tom also maintains a website preserving the history of the Kerista commune (kerista.com). Eve's more contemporary artwork and graphics can be seen on her website www.blueheron1.com.
In 2017, she contributed to Trina Robbins's A Minyen Yidn (A Bunch of Jews and Other Stuff), based on short stories written by Robbins's father. A reprint of the complete Far Out West is a possibility within the next few years (only the first 32 pages out of 120 were ever printed in comic book form), as are some new comics, adding a different perspective on the communal cult years.
External Links[]
- Etsy shop
- blueheron1.com
- Kerista.com