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	Alison Bechdel - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Alison Bechdel (born September 10, 1960) is an American cartoonist best known for the comic strip Dykes To Watch Out For, which chronicles the lives of several lesbians and their friends.
		Alison Bechdel was born in Lock Haven, Pennsylvania to a Catholic family of teachers.
		Bechdel's brother, John Bechdel, is currently the keyboard player for the industrial metal band Ministry as of February 2006.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Alison_Bechdel (529 words)

	glbtq >> arts >> Bechdel, Alison
		Cartoonist Alison Bechdel is best known for her long-running comic strip Dykes to Watch Out For, which has run in alternative gay and lesbian newspapers for nearly two decades.
		Bechdel was born on September 10, 1960 in Lock Haven, Pennsyvlania, one of three children of high school English teachers.
		Bechdel describes her strip as "half op-ed column and half endless, serialized Victorian novel." At its center is Mo (Monica), who embodies the values that Bechdel assumed were what being a lesbian meant when she came out.
	www.glbtq.com /arts/bechdel_a.html (703 words)

	Alison Bechdel
		Alison Bechdel (born September 10, 1960) is a US comics artist, best known for the lesbian comic strip Dykes To Watch Out For.
		Alison applied to many art schools but was rejected and worked in a number of office jobs in the publishing industry.
		In 1987, when Bechdel was living in St. Paul, she introduced the regular characters, Mo and her friends (see Dykes to Watch Out For for these).
	www.classicdykes.com /alison_bechdel.htm (253 words)

	Press Release for Fun Home published by Houghton Mifflin Company
		Alison was inhibited not just by the shock of her father's death, but by the impact of his life — his domination and deception, and the alternately encouraging and crushing influence that he had on her creativity.
		Meet Alison's father, a historic preservation expert, an obsessive restorer of the family's Victorian house, a third-generation funeral home director, a high school English teacher, an icily distant parent, and a closeted homosexual who, she finds out, is involved with male students and a family babysitter.
		Alison Bechdel, a cult-favorite comic artist, has been a careful archivist of her own life and kept a journal since she was ten.
	www.houghtonmifflinbooks.com /booksellers/press_release/bechdel (2526 words)

	AfterEllen.com - Alison Bechdel's Life In the Fun Home (page 2)
		Although Bechdel speaks as if documenting her life is not a particularly creative endeavor, the book displays deep insight—into herself, her father, and the complicated and contentious relationship they shared.
		Bechdel didn't tell her mother and brothers about her book until a year into working on it because she didn't want to be inhibited by how they might respond to her “family tragicomic.” But she made sure to show it to them at various stages and even promised to make changes at their request.
		Bechdel describes her mother as very private but says that she's been very supportive despite her discomfort with having the family history on public display.
	www.afterellen.com /Print/2006/5/bechdel2.html (631 words)

	AfterEllen.com - Alison Bechdel's Life In the Fun Home
		Since 1983 Alison Bechdel has been chronicling the lives of a fictional bunch of characters in her comic strip, Dykes to Watch Out For.
		Bechdel describes her creative process as a “barely harnessed obsessive compulsive disorder,” it could easily keep her from completing anything but she manages to control it just enough to be productive.
		Bechdel literally acts out each scene that she draws, complete with props and costumes, posing as each person in a frame and capturing it all in photographs.
	www.afterellen.com /Print/2006/5/bechdel.html (629 words)

	Alison Bechdel
		Bechdel: The most interesting thing to me is the bad character I've introduced -- Sydney, the evil women's studies professor.
		Bechdel: I have a friend named Kris Kovick who used to be a cartoonist and she maintains that there's a new generation of lesbians every five years.
		Bechdel: The secret subversive goal of my work is to show that women, not just lesbians, are regular human beings.
	www.sonic.net /~goblin/9dyk.html (2401 words)

	Fun Home by Alison Bechdel => BACK IN STOCK!
		She draws on a full complement of her artistic forebears to create an elaborate intertextual support narrative in a manner that is akin to that which her father employed in his painstaking restoration of the gothic revival mansion which is the central setting for the story.
		Alison and her parents are vividly rendered in both language and line.
		Bechdel, should you ever decide to return to this work in the future for any revisions, please consider this request that you provide a prologue and/or epilogue that discusses your discovery that you were a comics artist.
	home.earthlink.net /~copaceticcomicsco/FunHome.html (814 words)

	Fun Home - Alison Bechdel - Books - New York Times
		Bechdel recalls the stunted reaction to her father's death: "Dry-eyed and sheepish, my brothers and I looked for as long as we sensed it was appropriate.
		Bechdel recalls a private, erotic reading of "James and the Giant Peach." The Bechdels are closest when she is the only student in his English class who does not seem consumed by lethargy.
		Bechdel gets a hint of her father's secret when he confides that he has been ordered by the court to see a psychiatrist.
	www.nytimes.com /2006/06/26/books/26gust.html?ex=1308974400&en=3b251d7414d1a0d9&ei=5090&partner=rssuserland&emc=rss (1029 words)

	ken foster: Encountering my childhood in Alison Bechdel's Fun Home
		When I first read about Alison Bechdel's book Fun Home last week, I was startled by these words: "her father, who committed suicide".
		But earlier, one afternoon, Alison gathered the six of us together and she painted a group portrait, including herself in the tableaux, even though she was on the otherside of the canvas.
		Bechdel was raised a strict Roman Catholic and was told to "go home and deal with it like a good Catholic wife" by her pastor.
	kenfoster.blogspot.com /2006/06/encountering-my-childhood-in-alison.html (1426 words)

	Alison Bechdel
		I was in the mood for cartoon books, picked up hers, and noticed that her characters had four fingers to go with their thumbs, were mostly female, had women of all races and shapes, and they were drawn in a reasonably anatomically correct manner.
		Alison Bechtel's "Dykes To Watch Out For" comic strip is a long-enduring feature of Gay weekly newspapers, but it is best to read it in paperback collections.
		Bechdel, creator of the popular cartoon strip "Dykes to Watch Out For," was born in Lock Haven, Pennsylvania and grew up drawing cartoons.
	www.queertheory.com /histories/b/bechdel_alison.htm (527 words)

	Powells.com Interviews - Alison Bechdel
		Bechdel: It is. And fortunately, my crazy, obsessive father thoroughly documented the house in photographs, which I had access to.
		Bechdel: I didn't expect that people were going to see this book, which is partly why I was able to write it.
		Bechdel: I worked on Fun Home for a year before I told her what I was doing, and then I knew I had to tell her so she wouldn't have a stroke or anything.
	www.powells.com /authors/bechdel.html (4533 words)

	Amazon.de: Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic: English Books: Alison Bechdel (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		Bechdel's mother and two brothers are in it, of course, but Bruce Bechdel had the biggest impact on his eldest child and so is naturally the other main character in her autobiographical graphic novel.
		Bechdel doesn't even hint about how ironic she and her brothers meant to be, because she is a narrative artist, not a moralist or comedian, in this book and because she has a greater, real-life irony to consider.
		Alison suddenly understood his legal trouble over buying a beer for a teenage boy, all the teen male "helpers" he had around the house, and his solo outings during family vacations to New York.
	www.amazon.de /Fun-Home-A-Family-Tragicomic/dp/0618477942 (753 words)

	Sequential Tart: Alison Bechdel's Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic (vol IX/iss 8/August 2006)
		The narrative reveals immediately that Bruce Bechdel, Alison's father, was hit by a truck and died when Alison was nineteen, but that the circumstances may indicate it was more of a suicide than an accident.
		Bechdel's weekly Dykes To Watch Out For has been running in newspapers and annual compilations since the mid-80s, and parts of Fun Home revisit miscellaneous pieces compiled in The Indelible Alison Bechdel, which won a 1999 Lambda Literary Award.
		As a family engaged in art, fiction and performance, Bechdel begins writing and drawing comics to carve out her own creative niche separate from the historical restoration of her father, the stage acting of her mother and the guitar playing of her brother.
	www.sequentialtart.com /article.php?id=217 (1063 words)

	Alison Bechdel's "Fun Home"
		A photo recently ran in the New York Times of cartoonist Alison Bechdel reaching to touch the chrysanthemum wall paper in the living room of her childhood Victorian home.
		After Alison types and mails a letter from college telling her parents she is gay, her mother informs her that Bruce, a high school English teacher and part-time funeral home director, had been with men throughout their marriage.
		Alison impulsively links his death to her sexual revelation — “the end of his life coincided with the beginning of my truth.” Bechdel traces the fear of this correlation back and forth in time through bizarre, coded interactions with her parents.
	www.thesimon.com /magazine/articles/between_the_covers/01224_alison_bechdel_fun_home.html (731 words)

	Metroactive Books \| Alison Bechdel
		Watching Out for the Dykes: Alison Bechdel's long-running strip focuses on the lives of a group of intelligent, middle-class lesbians.
		Bechdel's characters range from scholarly Mo to hedonistic "Lothario" Lois.
		You don't have to be gay or female to appreciate Bechdel's wit, thoughtful illustration and perceptiveness.
	www.metroactive.com /papers/metro/08.08.96/comics-9632.html (509 words)

	A Dyke to Watch Out For :: tyeebooks.ca
		The younger Bechdel, by now apprised of her father's secret and with a single, oblique letter from him as proof, is understandably tormented.
		Bechdel is right to worry: the entire first printing of the book has sold out, and I worked hard to get my hands on a reading copy.
		Bechdel has said that she is the model for Dykes regular Mo, a morose, androgynous type who bemoans the state of the world while sporting an eternal brush cut and a pair of wire-rimmed glasses, trendy circa 1992.
	thetyee.ca /Books/2006/08/23/FunHome (1584 words)

	Powell's Books - Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic by Alison Bechdel
		Alison Bechdel is best known for her long-running Dykes to Watch Out For strip, which has been a fixture in the LGBT press for more than fifteen years.
		Bechdel's father was an agonizingly careful man who dressed with care and spent every moment of his leisure time restoring the family's Victorian-era home.
		Bechdel's voice in this memoir is sad yet wry, and the book is funny and poignant by turns, and her clean, careful artwork melds seamlessly with the story.
	www.powells.com /biblio/0618477942?&PID=30823 (1421 words)

	Salon.com Books \| "Fun Home"
		Cartoonist Alison Bechdel, of "Dykes to Watch Out For" fame, has created a heart-stopping graphic memoir revealing her family secrets.
		Midway through "Fun Home," Alison Bechdel's riveting memoir of her family's secrets and love letter to her late, horrifically flawed father, she shows us the earliest entries in the diary she's kept since the age of 10.
		Her language and drawings are impressively sensitive to the details of her physical experience and to the trickier folds of her own self-consciousness; she dives over and over into the cloudy waters of her past, swimming deeper every time.
	www.salon.com /books/review/2006/06/05/bechdel (414 words)

	Watch out for Alison Bechdel \| The Daily Page (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		The memoir centers on Bechdel's tension-filled relationship with her father, who was a closet homosexual whom Bechdel believes committed suicide shortly after she came out as a lesbian.
		The story stands on its own, but Bechdel points out that the art allows her to introduce multiple levels of meaning in the space of one panel.
		Even so, Bechdel reflects, "I feel like the book is a proper memorial or proper funeral for my father, for me, in a way that his actual funeral was not.
	www.thedailypage.com /daily/node/1787 (822 words)

	Amazon.com: Post-Dykes to Watch Out For: Books: Alison Bechdel (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		As with her eight previous collections, Alison Bechdel covers a host of pressing issues, from the Monica Lewinsky scandal to the decline of the independent bookstore, and pauses to consider whether an online affair qualifies as cheating.
		Bechdel's mercurial wit flashes from the "sado-monicaism" of watching Clinton's impeachment hearings to the meaning of gender as liquefied by an encounter between a transsexual gay man and a cross-dressing lesbian as Bechdel calls attention to the hypocrisies, idiocies and hysterics of modern society.
		It is a tribute to Bechdel talent that she weathers this transition and manages to bring more than the occasional flash of brilliance that she has shown on her previous work.
	www.amazon.com /Post-Dykes-Watch-Out-Alison-Bechdel/dp/1563411229 (1665 words)

	village voice > books > Alison Bechdel's Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic by Hillary Chute
		Alison's parents, she lets us know, were emotionally distant people who refracted—for better or for worse, but probably for worse—their own experience through literature.
		For Bechdel, who did five or six successive sketches for each image in the book, scrupulous attention to detail is also part of her general approach to working in the visual medium of comics.
		Bechdel herself is slightly taken aback by the wealth of press her book has received: a glowing review in the Times, profiles in mainstream venues such as People.
	www.villagevoice.com /books/0628,chute,73800,10.html (2270 words)

	Comic creator: Alison Bechdel
		Bechdel grew up in rural Pennsylvania, and after graduating from Oberlin College in 1981, moved to New York City.
		Bechdel started self-syndicating her comic strip in 1985, and it now runs in over 65 gay/lesbian, feminist, and alternative publications in North America.
		Her most recent books are 'Split-Level Dykes to Watch Out For' and 'The Indelible Alison Bechdel: Confessions, Comix, and Miscellaneous Dykes to Watch Out For'.
	www.lambiek.net /artists/b/bechdel.htm (187 words)

	HOLKY V BRNě - Ilustrace: Alison Bechdel >>> HOLKY V BRNě (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		Kreslířka Alison Bechdel nám dala laskavé svolení používat její obrázky na našich stránkách (a v bannerech) a my jí za to moc děkujeme.
		Alison Bechdel žije v americkém Vermontu, což je jeden z mála amerických států, který dovoluje gayům a lesbám uzavřít sňatek, který má ve všech ohledech stejný status jako manželství.
		Alison Bechdel se svými komiksy stala v lesbické komunitě fenoménem.
	holky.stud.cz /sb-holky/alison_bechdel.phtml (543 words)

	Fun Home by Alison Bechdel
		At one point Alison Bechdel says she employs these allusions because her parents are most real to her in fictional terms.
		And Bechdel's metaphorical riffs sometimes eluded me. The book opens with a deft play on the Daedalus-Icarus myth, Bruce somehow being both Daedalus the creator and his son Icarus, who flies too high and falls to the sea.
		Alison, after coming out to her parents in a letter, broaches the subject twice with her father.
	www.chron.com /disp/story.mpl/life/books/reviews/3973555.html (925 words)

	Split-Level Dykes to Watch Out For by Alison Bechdel - R A I N T A X I o n l i n e
		For years now the savvy cartoonist Alison Bechdel has been chronicling the lives of this lesbian community as they make their way through a world of stress, work, death, and taxes--in short, the world everybody has to deal with.
		As the characters debate and fret over their various moves, Bechdel manages to integrate a real sense of the stress and politics of home-buying and moving.
		Bechdel is a gifted writer, able to poke fun at PC lesbian liberalism even as she stays true to these same values on a personal level.
	www.raintaxi.com /online/1999spring/bechdel.shtml (444 words)

	Alison Bechdel (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		In 1981 she graduated from Oberlin College (having transferred to Oberlin from Simon's Rock College) and moved to New York City.
		In 1987, when Bechdel was living in St. Paul, Bechdel introduced the regular characters, Mo and her friends (see Dykes to Watch Out For for these).
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	alison-bechdel.area51.ipupdater.com (282 words)

	Alison Bechdel Interview (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		Alison: I have to say that I don't socialize very much at all.
		Alison: I'm not as resolved about it as you are.
		Alison: I think we were just caught up in the historical moment.
	members.aol.com /wockner/alison.html (972 words)

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