Alison Bechdel‘s cult following for her early comic strip Dykes to Watch Out For expanded wildly for her family memoirs, the best-selling graphic memoir Fun Home, adapted into a Tony Award-winning musical, and Are You My Mother? Bechdel has been named a MacArthur Fellow and Cartoonist Laureate of Vermont, among many other honors. Her new memoir, The Secret to Superman Strength, is forthcoming in 2021.
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Through narrative that is alternately heartbreaking and funny, readers are drawn into a daughters complex yearning for her father. Apart from assigned stints dusting caskets at the family-owned “fun home,” the relationship achieves its most intimate expression through the shared code of books.
Settle in to this wittily illustrated soap opera (Bechdel calls it “half op-ed column and half endless serialized Victorian novel”) of the lives, loves, and politics of Mo, Lois, Sydney, Sparrow, Ginger, Stuart, Clarice, and the rest of the cast of cult-fav characters. Most of them are lesbians, living in a midsize American city that…
The celebrated and beloved New York Times bestselling author of the modern classic Fun Home presents a laugh-out-loud, brilliant, and passionately political work of autofiction. “Truthful, rueful and delightful.”–LA Times In Alison Bechdel’s hilariously skewering and gloriously cast new comic novel confection, a work of sharp literary humor, a cartoonist named Alison Bechdel, running a…
From the bestselling author of “Fun Home,” “Time” magazine’s No. 1 Book of the Year, a poignant and hilarious graphic memoir of Bechdel becoming the artist her gifted mother always wanted to be.
A special hardcover Deluxe Collector’s Edition of Alison Bechdel’s groundbreaking, bestselling graphic memoir and basis for the Tony Award-winning musical—featuring a cloth case with new art, a reversible jacket with new art on both sides enhanced with teal and silver foil, and sprayed edges. Distant and exacting, Bruce Bechdel was an English teacher and director…
The Best Graphic Book of 2021 by Publishers Weekly A New York Times Best Graphic Novel of 2021 A New York Times Notable Book An Autostraddle Best Queer Book of the Year A Boston Globe Best Book of the Year A St. Louis Post Dispatch Best Book of the Year NPR, 12 Books NPR Staffers…
Vuelve Alison Bechdel con una novela gráfica coral en la que el capitalismo tardÃo, el poliamor, el cambio climático y la mismÃsima cotidianidad son también protagonistas «Drástica, sarcástica y fantástica . —LA Times Un libro ocurrente y polÃtico que cuestiona la realidad mundial y la incertidumbre del mañana Los dÃas de cierta historietista llamada Alison…
Uno de los mejores libros del Siglo XXI según el New York Times Una familia tragicómica, el exitoso relato de maduración de Alison Bechdel, que ha sido calificado de “proeza de retrato familiar” y de “raro y original ejemplo de por qué las novelas gráficas han dado que hablar en la literatura americana”. Fun Home…
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