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 just have this sort of entrepreneurial spirit and I work really hard at promoting myself.
Even drawing gray hair at all is difficult to render in black and white.
I'm pretty illiterate when it comes to comics history.
Sometimes I wish the writing and drawing were more integrated.
Who embalms the Undertaker when he dies?
For some reason writing and drawing are very separate processes for me.
Grief takes many forms, including the absence of grief
I’m glad mainstream culture is starting to catch up to where lesbian-feminism was 30 years ago.
I don't know, maybe it's because I was raised Catholic. Confession has always held a great appeal for me.
My father once nearly came to blows with a female dinner guest about whether a particular patch of embroidery was fuchsia or magenta. But the infinite gradations of color in a fine sunset - from salmon to canary to midnight blue - left him wordless.
The web is my unconscious but it's also a wish -- a fantasy of what my own creativity might look like if I weren't constantly impeding its flow.
If it weren't for the unconventionality of my desires, my mind might never have been forced to reckon with my body.
The secret subversive goal of my work is to show that women, not just lesbians, are regular human beings.
I'll watch a movie only if it meets the following criteria: 1. It has to have at least two women in it. 2. Who talk to each other. 3. About something besides a man.