Tag: Alison Bechdel

"I remember the absolute last copy of the first print run, which I sold at Comic-Con. It was to a middle-aged, straight woman who was buying it for her teenage, gay son. She told me that she was getting the book for him because she wanted him to know his history and lineage, and she couldn’t tell that story to him herself. She thanked me for creating the book for the both of them and I promptly burst into tears. Then we hugged it out. It was an incredible moment."

§ In Tamul Nadu, a state in India, cartoonist Bala G was arrested for a cartoon he posted on his Facebook page. The cartoon, above, refers to a local scandal where a family of...

https://twitter.com/beckycloonan/status/918253791983652864 § Nice Art: Inktober continues, this time from Becky Cloonan. § So when I reported on that story about the handyman stealing $250,000 worth of art and comicsfrom a Sparta, NJ home the other...

§ Nice Art: Francesco Francavilla gave us the Thing vs Thing team-up we've all dreamed of on Twitter. § Nice art supplemental! Takashi Miike has made a movie based on the manga JoJo's Bizarre Adventure and it...

        Kazoo magazine is a new print mag for girls, with a plan to present material that speaks to girls aspirational goals A new kind of print magazine for girls—one that inspires them to be smart, strong,...

Frankly, we need this book.

Photo by Sara Krulwich/The New York Times Fun Home, the musical based on Alison Bechdel's graphic novel won five TOny Wards on Saundya, including Best Musical, capping a road of critical triumph for the show....

The Tony Awards nominations are out today, honoring the best on Broadway, and Fun Home tied for most nominations with 12 (An American in Paris also got 12.) The musical, based on the Alison...

    Fun Home opened on Broadway last night and the musical based on Alison Bechdel's acclaimed graphic novel won rave reviews. The show stars Beth Malone, Emily Skeggs and Sydney Lucas (above) as Bechdel at...

The Pulitzer Prize nominated musical version of Alison Bechdel's Fun Home is coming to Broadway near year and the cast and crew have been announced. Michael Cerveris will be reprising his role as...

Fresh off winning a MacArthur Genius grant, and a months-0ong residency at an Umbrian castle, Alison Bechdel has also announced the subject of her next graphic novel. The Secret to Superhuman Strength will be published in 2017 by Houghton Mifflin. Having explored the psyches of her father in Fun Home and her mother in Are you My Mother, Bechdel turns her laser sight on her self:

  Alison Bechdel has been named one of this year's MacArthur Foundation grant winners, often known as a genius grant. Bechdel was cited for being ...a cartoonist and graphic memoirist exploring the complexities of familial relationships in multilayered works...