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Tuesday February 24, 2009
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| Alison Bechdel is author of Fun Home, a graphic novel that the Detroit Free Press calls a "staggeringly literate and revealing autobiography." In 2006, numerous periodicals--including Time, The New York Times, People, The San Francisco Chronicle and The Los Angeles Times--listed Bechdel's book as one of the best of the year. Since 1983, her counter-cultural comic strip Dykes to Watch Out For has been syndicated in dozens of outlets. Ms. describes Bechdel's strip as "one of the preeminent oeuvres in the comics genre, period." Bechdel's work has won several Lambda Awards and an Eisner award. USA Today says Bechdel's hybrid work is an "astonishing advertisement for the emerging literary form" of the graphic novel. |
