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 Fun Home's Profile |
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| Age: | 46 years old |
| Sex: | Female |
| Location: | BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS |
| Country: |  United States |
| Height: | 0' 0" |
| Zodiac: |  Capricorn (Dec 22- Jan 19) |
| Last Login: | Nov 29, 2007 (763 days back) |
About Me |
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| A year after her father died, when she was twenty years old, Alison Bechdel was
looking through some old family photographs and found one of a young man in his
underwear. She recognized him as a student of her father's and a family
babysitter. She also came across a photo of her father as a young man, wearing a
woman's bathing suit. There were also snapshots of her mother over the years, in
which her expression transformed vividly from hopefulness to resignation to
bitterness.
Alison found her own childhood pictures, of a girl who looked like a boy. She knew that these snapshots conveyed much more information than she suspected, and there was a deeper story begging to be told, about a daughter who inadvertently "outs" her gay father, who meets a tragic end. But the painful circumstances that make her story so compelling also rendered her incapable of telling it for a long time. Alison was inhibited not just by the shock of her father's death, but by the impact of his life — his domination and deception, and the alternately encouraging and crushing influence that he had on her creativity. In her early twenties she attempted, in prose, to tell her part of the tale, but it eluded her. Instead, she turned her creative efforts to an entirely different project: drawing a comic strip, Dykes to Watch Out For. Years have passed, and Alison is now a comic artist with a cult following. Her strip is syndicated in fifty newspapers and she has a quarter of a million books in print. And she is finally ready to tell her own story. Through twenty years of social change, Alison's accomplished drawing skills, and her wizened emotional perspective comes Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic Alison Bechdel, a cult-favorite comic artist, has been a careful archivist of her own life and kept a journal since she was ten. Bechdel grew up in rural Pennsylvania. After graduating from Oberlin College, she moved to New York City, where she began drawing Dykes to Watch Out For in 1983 — "one of the preeminent oeuvres in the comic genre, period" (Ms.). The strip is syndicated in fifty newspapers, translated into several languages, and collected in a book series with a quarter of a million copies in print. Utne magazine has listed DTWOF as "one of the greatest hits of the twentieth century." And Comics Journal says, "Bechdel's art distills the pleasures of Friends and The Nation; we recognize our world in it, with its sorrows and ironies." In Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic Alison Bechdel is finally telling her own story. LINKS visit Alison Bechdel's Web site a conversation with Alison Bechdel excerpts from Fun Home information on buying this book |
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My Interests |
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Look, this came in the mail yesterday. The official publication date is June
5. In a couple weeks I start flitting hither and yon again, and not a moment too
soon–I’m almost out of tiny hotel bottles of shampoo. (Uh…I have a dim
recollection of having made that feeble shampoo joke before. Sorry if I’m
repeating myself. It must be a side-effect of too much travel.) Thursday April 10, 2008, Cornell University Thursday April 24, 2008 University of Vermont. Memorial Lounge, 6pm |
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My Background and Lifestyle |
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| MaritalStatus: | In a Relationship |
My Pictures |
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My Blog |
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Fresh Turkeys |
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| Look! In my yard. On Thanksgiving. ... Posted by Fun Home on Thu, 29 Nov 2007 06:30:00 PST |
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Fleetingly Hip |
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| It's the end of my book tour. I'm getting ready to check out of my fancy NYC hotel and return to my real life, but I don't want to waste this incredible view I have of the city. So, here.
The reading... Posted by Fun Home on Mon, 16 Jul 2007 10:49:00 PST |
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The Paperback Tour |
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| Look, this came in the mail yesterday. The official publication date is June 5. In a couple weeks I start flitting hither and yon again, and not a moment too soonI'm almost out of tiny hotel bottles... Posted by Fun Home on Fri, 18 May 2007 08:43:00 PST |
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stranger than fiction |
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| Today Nerve.com put up their comics issue. It includes an interview with me about Fun Home with a guy named Peter Smith. I had a good time talking to him, and during our conversation he revealed to ... Posted by Fun Home on Tue, 13 Feb 2007 12:06:00 PST |
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Angoulême |
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| It's late and I'm nearly hallucinating with exhaustion. But here are just a few items from my day.
A film clip of my TGV ride from Tours to Angoulême, where I'm attending this giant international comi... Posted by Fun Home on Wed, 31 Jan 2007 01:43:00 PST |
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Bunch of Things |
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| I've been so crazed lately what with this trip to the Angouleme festival and trying to get work done before I left that I've neglected to mention some important stuff.
Fun Home won the Stonewall Book ... Posted by Fun Home on Wed, 31 Jan 2007 01:42:00 PST |
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Sketch Diary Sunday 12/17 |
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| Damn beavers. Posted by Fun Home on Mon, 18 Dec 2006 08:53:00 PST |
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Sunday round-up |
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| Instead of using my reprieve from my strip deadline to do all the other work I have to do, I seem to have plunged into a blogging frenzy. But I have a few more things I want to post about, mainly a wh... Posted by Fun Home on Mon, 18 Dec 2006 08:50:00 PST |
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Sketch Diary 12/16 |
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| Actually, before I did the Friday cartoon posted below, I did another one based on something that happened to me today.
But before I show you that, let me just say that the main rule of the sketch dia... Posted by Fun Home on Mon, 18 Dec 2006 08:49:00 PST |
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Sketch Diary |
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| No sooner did I post that guilt-ridden message about blowing off my strips this month than I was seized with a new idea. I could post other kinds of cartoons here, like a sketch diary, until I'm back... Posted by Fun Home on Mon, 18 Dec 2006 08:46:00 PST |
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My Friends |
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Bat Segundo, Jesse, Christine, Meredith, Mikhaela Reid (The Boiling Point), Dreaming of Anne Elliott, Ariel Schrag, [soon to be] eurotrash., Megan, Ele, Kelly Braffet, the hopeful ~jolene siana~, sarah, Treasured Websites, MariNaomi, alex, Blackcherry Media, N. Sigafoos, Got A Light?, L'Ascente, Cherry Bomb Comics, Isle of Klezbos, Tegan, CARTOON COLLEGE, Elizabeth Crane, Girl-Song Primer & Undercurrent Radio Shows- KUCR, Jennifer McMahon, Babbit, LESLIE BARTON, Revacuation, Carlos, DiLuciA, Peter Joseph Swanson, Tayari Jones, babalooo, Rachel, Francis, Kerry, innis, strawberry juice ♥, The Line comic, PepitaP, BookPeek, Ayun Halliday, oneandonleigh, badartdog, Tish Cohen, Emopoetry, AUSTIN KLEON
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