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
I probably read Harriet the Spy about 70,000 times.
I grew to resent the way my father treated his furniture like children, and his children like furniture.
At first I was glad for the help. My freshmen English class, "Mythology and Archetypal Experience," confounded me. I didn't understand why we couldn't just read books without forcing contorted interpretations on then
Well, I'm always working on my comic strip and trying to, you know, keep cranking that out.
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.
Although I am good at enumerating my father’s flaws, it’s hard for me to sustain much anger at him. I expect this is partly because he’s dead, and partly because the bar is lower for fathers than it is for mothers.
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.
I still found literary criticism to be a suspect activity
If there was ever a bigger pansy than my father, it was Marcel Proust.