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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Help us pay for in-depth stories like this one by becoming a Seven Days Super Reader. Spent: A Comic Novel by Alison Bechdel, Mariner Books, 272 pages. $32. Credit: Courtesy The Bolton cartoonist’s ...

Fun Home resonated with readers as a work of nuance, honesty and intelligence. Within just a few years, playwright Lisa Kron and composer Jeanine Tesori set about adapting it to the stage, which was ...

Alison Bechdel is the author of the long-running syndicated comic strip Dykes to Watch Out For. Since coming out as a lesbian in 1980 at the age of 19, graphic novelist Alison Bechdel has made it a ...

Alison Bechdel's "Spent" arrives with little fanfare but considerable weight. Not because it demands to be called a masterpiece, but because it doesn't. It steps lightly, tentatively, into questions ...

Twenty-one artists, scholars and activists, including cartoonist Alison Bechdel, have been awarded the MacArthur Genius grants this year, the foundation announced Wednesday. Each fellow will receive ...

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