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Alison Bechdel


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September 10, 1960

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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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While it’s lovely to get to talk to Terry Gross, and to have my book written about in The New Yorker, I have to say I am super excited to get a write-up on Outside magazine’s website. I’ve been reading Outside for years, since the olden times when it was a higher-brow version of Men’s Health, all bros skiing off cliffs. Now they actually have a lesbian columnist, Grace Perry, and I love what she s

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Average rating: 4.06 · 243,818 ratings · 19,956 reviews · 54 distinct worksSimilar authors
Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic

4.08 avg rating — 172,929 ratings — published 2006 — 2 editions
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Are You My Mother? A Comic ...

3.70 avg rating — 32,341 ratings — published 2012 — 39 editions
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The Essential Dykes To Watc...

4.43 avg rating — 11,719 ratings — published 2008 — 16 editions
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The Secret to Superhuman St...

4.16 avg rating — 9,370 ratings — published 2021 — 24 editions
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Dykes to Watch Out For (DtW...

4.17 avg rating — 3,129 ratings — published 1986 — 10 editions
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More Dykes to Watch Out For...

4.26 avg rating — 899 ratings — published 1988 — 12 editions
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New, Improved! Dykes to Wat...

4.30 avg rating — 779 ratings — published 1990 — 4 editions
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The Best American Comics 20...

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3.70 avg rating — 775 ratings — published 2011 — 2 editions
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Hot, Throbbing Dykes to Wat...

4.42 avg rating — 640 ratings — published 1997 — 4 editions
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Dykes and Sundry Other Carb...

4.29 avg rating — 630 ratings — published 2003 — 3 editions
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Dykes to Watch Out For 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...
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“Grief takes many forms, including the absence of grief.”
Alison Bechdel

“I suppose that a lifetime spent hiding one's erotic truth could have a cumulative renunciatory effect. Sexual shame is in itself a kind of death.”
Alison Bechdel, Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic

“Then there were those famous wings. Was Daedalus really stricken with grief when Icarus fell into the sea? Or just disappointed by the design failure?”
Alison Bechdel, Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic

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