Alison Bechdel





Alison Bechdel

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Alison Bechdel is an American cartoonist. Originally best known for the long-running comic strip Dykes To Watch Out For, in 2006 she became a best-selling and critically acclaimed author with her graphic memoir Fun Home.


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I did it. A twelve city book tour in twelve days. Finishing up in Portlandia, a Powells sponsored event at the Bagdad Theater.


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The Portland reading was kind of tame compared to last night’s event in Seattle. In Seattle I signed a dildo harness for the first time. Tomorrow I head back to Chicago, and teaching.


The awesome Nicole Georges was in the audience today. Afterward she gave me a copy of...

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Average rating: 4.17 · 22,147 ratings · 2,774 reviews · 22 distinct works
Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic
4.16 of 5 stars 4.16 avg rating — 16,137 ratings — published 2006 — 17 editions
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The Essential Dykes to Watc...
4.39 of 5 stars 4.39 avg rating — 1,490 ratings2 editions
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Dykes to Watch Out for: Car...
4.1 of 5 stars 4.10 avg rating — 735 ratings — published 1986 — 4 editions
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Are You My Mother?: A Comic...
3.79 of 5 stars 3.79 avg rating — 637 ratings — published 2012
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More Dykes to Watch Out for
4.21 of 5 stars 4.21 avg rating — 321 ratings — published 1988 — 2 editions
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Dykes and Sundry Other Carb...
4.26 of 5 stars 4.26 avg rating — 301 ratings — published 2003 — 2 editions
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Hot, Throbbing Dykes to Wat...
4.35 of 5 stars 4.35 avg rating — 292 ratings — published 1997 — 3 editions
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Invasion of the Dykes to Wa...
4.36 of 5 stars 4.36 avg rating — 286 ratings — published 2005
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New, Improved! Dykes to Wat...
4.26 of 5 stars 4.26 avg rating — 283 ratings — published 1990 — 3 editions
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Spawn of Dykes to Watch Out...
4.27 of 5 stars 4.27 avg rating — 280 ratings — published 1993 — 3 editions
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More books by Alison Bechdel…
Dykes to Watch Out for: Car... More Dykes to Watch Out for New, Improved! Dykes to Wat... Dykes to Watch Out for: The... Spawn of Dykes to Watch Out... Unnatural Dykes to Watch Ou... Hot, Throbbing Dykes to Wat...
Dykes To Watch Out For (11 books)
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4.2871864670425825 of 5 stars 4.29 avg rating — 5,143 ratings

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“I still found literary criticism to be a suspect activity”
Alison Bechdel, Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic

“It was not a triumphal return. Home, as I had known it, was gone.”
Alison Bechdel, Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic

“I never travel without my diary. One should always have something sensational to read on the train.”
Alison Bechdel, Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic

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