Due to the huge success of her graphic memoir Fun Home: A Family
Tragicomic in 2006 and its subsequent Tony Award-winning musical
adaptation in 2009, Alison Bechdel (b. 1960) has recently become a
household name. However, Bechdel, who has won numerous awards
including a MacArthur Fellowship, has been writing and drawing
comics since the early 1980s. Her comic strip Dykes to Watch Out
For (DTWOF) stood out as one of the first to depict lesbians in
popular culture and is widely hailed as an essential LGBTQ
resource. It is also from this comic strip that the wildly popular
Bechdel Test-a test to gauge positive female representation in
film-obtained its name. While DTWOF secured Bechdel's role in the
comics world and queer community long before her mainstream
success, Bechdel now experiences notoriety that few comics artists
ever achieve and that women cartoonists have never attained.
Spanning from 1990 to 2017, Alison Bechdel: Conversations collects
ten interviews that illustrate how Bechdel uses her own life,
relationships, and contemporary events to expose the world to what
she has referred to as the ""fringes of acceptability""-the comics
genre as well as queer culture and identity. These interviews
reveal her intentionality in the use of characters, plots,
structure, and cartooning to draw her readers toward disrupting the
status quo. Starting with her earliest interviews on public access
television and in little-known comics and queer presses, Rachel R.
Martin traces Bechdel's career from her days with DTWOF to her
popularity with Fun Home and Are You My Mother? This volume
includes her ""one-off"" DTWOF strips from November 2016 and March
2017 (not anthologized anywhere else) and in-depth discussions of
her laborious creative process as well as upcoming projects.
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