Alison Bechdel : conversations / edited by Rachel R. Martin.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Bechdel, Alison, 1960- interviewee.

Contributor:

Martin, Rachel R., editor.

Series:

Conversations with comic artists

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Bechdel, Alison, 1960---Interviews.

Bechdel, Alison.

Bechdel, Alison, 1960-.

Cartoonists--United States--Interviews.

Cartoonists.

United States.

Genre:

Interviews.

Physical Description:

xxxvii, 122 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.

Place of Publication:

Jackson : University Press of Mississippi, [2018]

Summary:

"Due to the huge success of her graphic memoir Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic in 2006 and its subsequent Tony Award-winning musical adaptation in 2009, Alison Bechdel (b. 1960) has recently become a household name. However, Bechdel, who has won numerous awards including a MacArthur Fellowship, has been writing and drawing comics since the early 1980s. Her comic strip Dykes to Watch Out For (DTWOF) stood out as one of the first to depict lesbians in popular culture and is widely hailed as an essential LGBTQ resource. It is also from this comic strip that the wildly popular Bechdel Test--a test to gauge positive female representation in film--obtained its name. While DTWOF secured Bechdel's role in the comics world and queer community long before her mainstream success, Bechdel now experiences notoriety that few comics artists ever achieve and that women cartoonists have never attained. Spanning from 1990 to 2017, Alison Bechdel: Conversations collects ten interviews that illustrate how Bechdel uses her own life, relationships, and contemporary events to expose the world to what she has referred to as the "fringes of acceptability"--The comics genre as well as queer culture and identity. These interviews reveal her intentionality in the use of characters, plots, structure, and cartooning to draw her readers toward disrupting the status quo. Starting with her earliest interviews on public access television and in little-known comics and queer presses, Rachel R. Martin traces Bechdel's career from her days with DTWOF to her popularity with Fun Home and Are You My Mother? This volume includes her "one-off" DTWOF strips from November 2016 and March 2017 (not anthologized anywhere else) and in-depth discussions of her laborious creative process as well as upcoming projects."--Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Introduction

Interview with Alison Bechdel : writer and lesbian cartoonist / Chris Dodge

Alison Bechdel / Anne Rubenstein

Sing lesbian cat, fly lesbian seagull : interview with Alison Bechdel / Wesley Joost

An interview with Alison Bechdel / John Zuarino

Stuck in Vermont : Alison Bechdel / Eva Sollberger

A conversation with Alison Bechdel / Roxanne Samer

Writers on the fly : Alison Bechdel / Iowa City UNESCO City of Literature

The rumpus interview with Alison Bechdel : sections II-X / MariNaomi

Book news : a Q&A with Alison Bechdel, cartoonist and MaCarthur winner / Annalisa Quinn

Lesbian cartoonist Alison Bechdel countered dad's secrecy by being out and open / Terry Gross

Stuck in Vermont : Alison Bechdel's Fun Home on Broadway / Eva Sollberger

Alison Bechdel, onstage and on recode decode / Kara Swisher.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages xxix-xxxi) and index.

Other Format:

Online version: Bechdel, Alison, 1960- interviewee. Alison Bechdel.

ISBN:

9781496819260

1496819268

9781496819277

1496819276

OCLC:

1038401427