One weekend in 1986, on a jaunt in a rented cabin with her soon-to-be-ex-lover, Alison Bechdel, a virtually unknown cartoonist in her twenties living in the Twin Cities, had an anxiety attack. The ...

No artistic border is more poorly defended or muzzily mapped than the wavy line that separates self-consciousness from self-parody. Too many of the greats stumble unintentionally across the divide, ...

Students pose with Alison Bechdel after she visited their class. Back row: Dr. Helen Davis, Jaden Jack, Morgan Steiner, Lily Hebda, Drew Haritos, Alison Bechdel, Phoenix Davis and Kevin Croley. Front ...

Sydney Lucas (left) and Beth Malone from the cast of "Fun Home" portray writer and cartoonist Alison Bechdel at different ages during the 69th annual Tony Awards in 2015. Cartoonist and writer Alison ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The 25-year run of “Dykes to Watch Out For” followed a group of Sapphic pals and partners whose relationship and interactions ...

Mid-sentence, Alison Bechdel stops herself, laughing. “I’m sorry,” she says, “I keep speaking so effusively, but it’s really exciting. I never dreamed this level of talent would get brought to this ...

Installation view, ‘Dykes, Dads, and Moms to Watch Out For: The Comics of Alison Bechdel’ at the UM Institute for the Humanities Gallery (all photos by Sarah Nesbitt, courtesy the UM Institute for the ...

The passing of the cartoonist laurels Credit: Edward Koren and Alison Bechdel “It seemed obvious she could have been the choice from the get-go — we’re lucky to have so many great cartoonists in the ...

After the actors had all taken their bows to thunderous applause at the San Francisco premiere of Jeanine Tesori and Lisa Kron’s musical Fun Home, Carole Shorenstein Hays — the flamboyant theater ...

The cover of The Secret to Superhuman Strength by Alison Bechdel ((Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2021; all images courtesy the publisher) A confession: I hate working out. With the exception of dog walks ...

In each of Alison Bechdel’s graphic memoirs, there’s a moment, early on, when she is physically elevated—and seems to survey the sprawl of her own story below her. “Fun Home” (2006) begins with young ...