Alison Bechdel
Alison Bechdel
Alison Bechdelis an American cartoonist. Originally best known for the long-running comic strip Dykes to Watch Out For, she came to critical and commercial success in 2006 with her graphic memoir Fun Home, which was subsequently adapted as a musical which won a Tony Award for Best Musical in 2015. She is a 2014 recipient of the MacArthur "Genius" Award. She is also known for the Bechdel test, an indicator of gender bias in film...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionCartoonist
Date of Birth10 September 1960
CountryUnited States of America
My father once nearly came to blows with a female dinner guest about whether a particular patch of embroidery was fuchsia or magenta. But the infinite gradations of color in a fine sunset - from salmon to canary to midnight blue - left him wordless.
I don't know, maybe it's because I was raised Catholic. Confession has always held a great appeal for me.
I’m glad mainstream culture is starting to catch up to where lesbian-feminism was 30 years ago.
Grief takes many forms, including the absence of grief
Was Daedalus really stricken with grief when Icarus fell into the sea? Or just disappointed by the design failure
It's our very capacity for self-consciousness that makes us self-destructive!
I'd been upstaged, demoted from protagonist in my own drama to comic relief in my parents' tragedy
If there was ever a bigger pansy than my father, it was Marcel Proust.
She has given me a way out.
What would happen if we spoke the truth?
Mostly it was Mad magazine. And I did read a lot of - I had a subscription when I was little, but I also had access to some old collections, the little paperbacks of the really good stuff.
I started to get bored with that stuff about only drawing men and I've taken it out of the slideshow.
I probably read Harriet the Spy about 70,000 times.
When I was growing up in the 1960s, there was starting to be more books geared towards young adults.