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
If there was ever a bigger pansy than my father, it was Marcel Proust.
What would happen if we spoke the truth?
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.
Yeah, I read Judy Blume. My mother didn't like that, but I read it anyhow.
I still found literary criticism to be a suspect activity
It was a vicious cycle, though. The more gratification we found in our own geniuses, the more isolated we grew.
The satiric ethos of Mad was a much bigger childhood influence.
Even drawing gray hair at all is difficult to render in black and white.
I'm pretty illiterate when it comes to comics history.
I love Jules Feiffer. I didn't discover him until I was a little older.
It was not a triumphal return. Home, as I had known it, was gone.
When I grew up, I studied karate for years. I got pretty strong, but eventually I had to acknowledge that I really didn't like fighting at all, so I quit.