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
Well, I'm always working on my comic strip and trying to, you know, keep cranking that out.
Writing this book feels like a completely different activity from writing my comic strip because it's about real life. I feel like I'm using a part of my brain that's been dormant until now.
Yeah, I think some of that is just wish-fulfillment, you know, how little kids fantasize through their drawings. I wanted to be powerful.
I never really read superhero stuff as a kid.
I started to get bored with that stuff about only drawing men and I've taken it out of the slideshow.
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 probably read Harriet the Spy about 70,000 times.
And partly, the worst thing you could do in my family was need something from someone. So physical strength represented an avenue of self-sufficiency to me.
It's imprecise and insufficient, defining the homosexual as a person whose gender expression is at odds with his or her sex.
You can't live and write at the same time.
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
It was not a triumphal return. Home, as I had known it, was gone.