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   Alison Bechdel (/ ˈ b ɛ k d əl / BEK-dəl; born September 10, 1960) is an American cartoonist.Originally 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 that won a Tony Award for Best Musical in 2015.

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   6 days ago · Alison Bechdel (born September 10, 1960, Lock Haven, Pennsylvania, U.S.) is an American cartoonist and graphic novelist who was perhaps best known for the comic strip Dykes to Watch Out For (1983–2008)—which introduced the so-called Bechdel Test, which evaluates movies on the basis of gender inequality—and the graphic memoir Fun Home (2006).

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   Alison Bechdel was a well-known name in the gay community for her long-running comic strip, Dykes to Watch out For . The successful feature has been a comics-page staple of several dozen alternative newspapers since the mid-1980s, and is regularly collected into book form.

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   A Comic Drama (2012). She has drawn comics for Slate, McSweeney's, Entertainment Weekly, The New York Times Book Review, and Granta. Her work is widely translated and anthologized. On September 10, 1960, Alison Bechdel was born to Bruce and Helen Bechdel in Lock Haven, Pennsylvania. Less than ten miles away, Beech Creek, Pennsylvania, was her ...

6. www.wgbh.org › culture › 2024/04/18Alison Bechdel on intimacy, mortality and unfettered ...

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   Apr 18, 2024 · Bechdel has a new graphic memoir, “The Secret to Superhuman Strength,” where she details her obsession with fitness — and mortality — in a funny, thoughtful and very GOOP-free exploration of self-improvement. “Exercise is kind of my religion,” Bechdel told The Culture Show. “I normally just feel very, very cerebral, very caught up ...

7. www.newyorker.com › magazine › 2012/04/23Drawn from Life | The New Yorker

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   Apr 16, 2012 · Drawn from Life. By Judith Thurman. April 16, 2012. Bechdel’s studio is in the basement of her home in Vermont. “I don’t start drawing until I’ve finished the storytelling,” she says ...

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   Who is Alison Bechdel?

   • "Alison Bechdel named Vermont Cartoonist Laureate". Burlington Free Press. Retrieved April 4, 2018. ^ Bechdel, Alison. "Fun Home! The Musical!". Seven Days. Retrieved December 3, 2018. ^ Bechdel, Alison (November 23, 2016). "Dykes to Watch Out For: Pièce de Résistance". Seven Days. Retrieved December 3, 2018. ^ Bechdel, Alison (March 14, 2017).

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   Who is Mary Bechdel?

   • Born in 1960, Bechdel grew up in central Pennsylvania in Beech Creek, population 800, where both of her parents taught at the local high school. Her father also had a side job as the director of the town's funeral home, and Bechdel and her two brothers rather morbidly dubbed the family-run business the "Fun Home."

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   Is Bechdel a model?

   • Some of the figures—a blissfully happy baby Alison, for example, gazing at Helen—were copied from snapshots. For most of them, though, Bechdel is her own model. She sets up her camera on a tripod, assumes the posture of a character, then takes a photograph. “I spend a lot of time posing as myself,” she joked.

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   How old was Bechdel when she came out as a lesbian?

   • Bechdel came out as a lesbian at age 19. Her sexuality and gender non-conformity are a large part of the core message of her work, and she has said that "the secret subversive goal of my work is to show that women, not just lesbians, are regular human beings".

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9. news.harvard.edu › gazette › storyAlison Bechdel explains process behind graphic memoirs in ...

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   Feb 9, 2022 · The cartoonist, memoirist, and MacArthur “genius” Alison Bechdel described the myriad ways she has wrestled with time during the 2022 Rita E. Hauser Forum for the Arts on Tuesday. “The main thing I love about memoirs is the challenge of finding a coherent story in the random events of life,” said Bechdel, who published “The Secret to ...