Alison Bechdel is the creator of the long-running self-syndicated comic strip Dykes to Watch Out For. She came to critical success with her graphic memoirs Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic and Are You My Mother?: A Comic Drama. Bechdel edited Best American Comics 2011, and has drawn comics for Slate, McSweeney’s, Entertainment Weekly, The New York Times Book Review, and Granta. She is also a recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship.
Thursday, April 10, 4:30pm
Location:
Dartmouth College
The Life Sciences Building
Room 100
Presented by The Center for Cartoon Studies, The Leslie Center for Humanities at Dartmouth College, and Gender Research Institute at Dartmouth. Sponsored by the Will and Ann Eisner Foundation.
Tags: Alison Bechdel, Cartoon Studies, Dartmouth, Fun Home, Will and Ann Eisner, Will Eisner, Will Eisner Spring Lecture
