Celebrated cartoonist
and author, Alison Bechdel, will be speaking and reading from her
work on Wednesday, September 19th,
2012 at 8:00 p.m. in Wesleyan University’s Russell House, 350 High
Street. The reading is free and open to the public, with a reception and book signing to follow the reading.
Alison Bechdel is an internationally recognized cartoonist whose comic strip Dykes to Watch Out For has
been praised as “one of the preeminent oeuvres in the comics genre, period.”
In 2006, she published
her graphic memoir Fun Home: A Family
Tragic Comic. Fun Home spent two weeks on the New York
Times Hardcover Nonfiction bestseller list. Time Magazine named Fun Home one
of its “10 Best Books of the Year,” and the book was hailed as one of the best
books of 2006 by The Times of London,
Publishers Weekly, and New York Magazine.
Her most recent book,
released in May 2012, is a graphic novel called Are You My Mother?: A Comic
Drama. The book explores Bechdel’s
relationship with her own mother as well as a deeper psychoanalytic perspective
on relationships between daughters and their mothers.
Bechdel edited Best American Comics 2011. She has
drawn comics for Slate, McSweeney’s, Entertainment Weekly,
The New York Times Book Review, and Granta. Her work is
widely anthologized and translated.
She was a finalist for the National Book
Critics Circle Award for Fun
Home, and in 2012 she received a Guggenheim Fellowship.
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