For much of her career, Alison Bechdel was a little-known cartoonist whose comic strip, “Dykes to Watch Out For” (1983-2008), could be found in the pages of alternative gay and lesbian newspapers.In ...
Mid-sentence, Alison Bechdel stops herself, laughing. “I’m sorry,” she says, “I keep speaking so effusively, but it’s really exciting. I never dreamed this level of talent would get brought to this ...
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AMES, Iowa — A cartoonist and recipient of the MacArthur "Genius" Award will speak at Iowa State University. Alison Bechdel will present "Drawing Lessons: the Comics of Everyday" at 8 p.m. Thursday, ...
Installation view, ‘Dykes, Dads, and Moms to Watch Out For: The Comics of Alison Bechdel’ at the UM Institute for the Humanities Gallery (all photos by Sarah Nesbitt, courtesy the UM Institute for the ...
As part of last weekend’s New Yorker Festival, co-sponsored by Mastercard, renowned lesbian cartoonist Alison Bechdel gave a talk Saturday, which was moderated by New Yorker writer Judith Thurman at ...
There is no greater thrill in Vermont journalism than driving for miles to the end of a dirt road for an interview with a stranger — followed, 10 minutes into the conversation, by a thought bubble: ...
One weekend in 1986, on a jaunt in a rented cabin with her soon-to-be-ex-lover, Alison Bechdel, a virtually unknown cartoonist in her twenties living in the Twin Cities, had an anxiety attack. The ...
Award-winning graphic artist Alison Bechdel broke new ground and influenced a generation of authors, activists and ordinary citizens with her nationally syndicated comic strip Dykes to Watch Out For, ...