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Alison Bechdel

Autor(a) de Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic

34+ Works 15,855 Membros 548 Críticas 94 Favorited

About the Author

Disambiguation Notice:

(eng) Originator of the Bechdel test, a measure of the representation of women in fiction. -Nevov

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Séries

Obras por Alison Bechdel

Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic (2006) 8,097 exemplares
Are You My Mother? A Comic Drama (2012) 1,946 exemplares
The Essential Dykes to Watch Out For (2008) 1,009 exemplares
The Secret to Superhuman Strength (2021) 546 exemplares
Dykes to Watch Out For (1986) 495 exemplares
More Dykes to Watch Out For (1988) 373 exemplares
Split-Level Dykes to Watch Out For (1998) 325 exemplares
Spawn of Dykes to Watch Out for (1993) 322 exemplares
Unnatural Dykes to Watch Out for (1995) 321 exemplares
Dykes to Watch Out for: The Sequel (1992) 314 exemplares
Post-Dykes to Watch Out For (2000) 288 exemplares

Associated Works

The Best American Nonrequired Reading 2007 (2007) — Contribuidor — 615 exemplares
The Best American Comics 2006 (2006) — Contribuidor — 531 exemplares
Stuck Rubber Baby (1995) — Introdução, algumas edições518 exemplares
State by State: A Panoramic Portrait of America (2008) — Contribuidor — 515 exemplares
The Best American Comics 2007 (2007) — Contribuidor — 383 exemplares
Unpacking My Library: Writers and Their Books (2011) — Contribuidor — 379 exemplares
The Best American Comics 2008 (2008) — Contribuidor — 296 exemplares
The Penguin Book of Lesbian Short Stories (1993) — Contribuidor — 295 exemplares
The New American Splendor Anthology (1991) — Ilustrador — 220 exemplares
No Straight Lines: Four Decades of Queer Comics (2012) — Contribuidor — 166 exemplares
Dyke Strippers: Lesbian Cartoonists from A to Z (1995) — Contribuidor — 111 exemplares
The Best American Comics 2013 (2013) — Contribuidor — 105 exemplares
The Art of Jaime Hernandez: The Secrets of Life and Death (2010) — Introdução — 98 exemplares
Charlotte Brontë before Jane Eyre (2019) — Prefácio — 79 exemplares
Love Letters: Virginia Woolf and Vita Sackville-West (2021) — Introdução, algumas edições71 exemplares
Tomboys!: Tales of Dyke Derring-Do (1995) — Contribuidor — 68 exemplares
Transposes (1602) — Prefácio — 63 exemplares
Attitude 2: The New Subversive Alternative Cartoonists (2004) — Contribuidor — 49 exemplares
Juicy Mother: Celebration (2004) — Contribuidor — 45 exemplares
The Complete Wimmen's Comix (2016) — Contribuidor — 43 exemplares
Juicy Mother 2: How They Met (No. 2) (2007) — Contribuidor — 26 exemplares
The Best Contemporary Women's Humor (1994) — Contribuidor — 25 exemplares
Graphic Reproduction: A Comics Anthology (Graphic Medicine) (2018) — Contribuidor — 9 exemplares
Sinister Wisdom 31 (1987) — Contribuidor — 7 exemplares
The Comics Journal #237 (2001) — Interviewee — 5 exemplares

Etiquetado

a ler (922) Americano (98) antologia (330) Autobiografia (400) autografado (89) Biografia (265) Cartoon (241) comic (385) Comics & Graphic Novels (110) coming of age (129) comix (91) contos (128) dtwof (112) ensaios (105) Estados Unidos (128) Família (358) Feminismo (127) Ficção (621) Fotonovela (1,806) Gay (262) glbt (187) graphic (192) graphic memoir (117) graphic novels (540) Homossexualidade (137) Humor (707) lesbians (188) LGBT (406) LGBTQ (360) lido (306) Lésbica (858) Memórias (1,196) mulheres (141) Não ficção (817) Queer (632) relações (90) Romance gráfico (2,141) sexuality (123) Suicídio (96) Tira de banda desenhada (176)

Conhecimento Comum

Nome legal
Bechdel, Alison
Data de nascimento
1960-09-10
Sexo
female
Nacionalidade
USA
Local de nascimento
Beech Creek, Pennsylvania, USA
Locais de residência
Lock Haven, Pennsylvania, USA
Burlington, Vermont, USA
St. Paul, Minnesota, USA
New York, New York, USA
Educação
Oberlin College (1981)
Bard College
Simon's Rock College
Ocupações
cartoonist
author
Prémios e menções honrosas
MacArthur Fellowship (2014)

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Bechdel began keeping a journal at age ten. She is married to Holly Rae Taylor.
Nota de desambiguação
Originator of the Bechdel test, a measure of the representation of women in fiction. -Nevov

Membros

Discussions

Alison Bechdel's desert island top 10 em Other People's Libraries (Fevereiro 2016)

Críticas

I read Bechdel's previous graphic novel Fun Home about two years ago and loved its delightfully complex weaving of narratives from the past and present. Are You My Mother took that complexity and upped it by like 500%. Bechdel must have enabled herself to become totally neurotic in order to create this masterful piece of memoir/psychological analysis. Due to the insane amount of information packed in, it should by all means be a dumpstire fire. But it's not, and it's going to take me another 4 read-throughs to fully appreciate that.… (mais)
 
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boopingaround | 99 outras críticas | Mar 6, 2024 |
I wish I liked this collection more than I did, as a fan of Bechdel's work in general, and also because cishet dudes were being such assholes about the stories in it being "feminist homosexual propaganda". They're not, broadly speaking--I would have liked it better if they were, probably.
 
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localgayangel | 6 outras críticas | Mar 5, 2024 |
A lovely memoir in comic form. Not the best artwork or content, but very enjoyable to read and may be quite beneficial for an LGBTQ reader in their coming of age-- unfortunately I think that chapter of my life has already passed me by, so I am not the ideal audience for this particular tome. Still, time well spent reading it.
 
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LadyLast | 366 outras críticas | Jan 19, 2024 |
Story: 7 / 10
Characters: 8.5
Setting: 6.5
Prose: 10
Art: 7

Although the book was well done and is considered one of the best graphic novels ever written, it did not appeal to me at all. I would only recommend it to literary fiction readers.
 
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MXMLLN | 366 outras críticas | Jan 12, 2024 |

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Estatísticas

Obras
34
Also by
28
Membros
15,855
Popularidade
#1,432
Avaliação
4.1
Críticas
548
ISBN
115
Línguas
17
Marcado como favorito
94

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