In 1988, she began a short-lived page-length strip about the staff of a queer newspaper, titled "Servants to the Cause", for The Advocate. Dykes to Watch Out For is the origin of the " Bechdel test", which has become a frequently used metric in cultural discussion of film. In 1987, Bechdel introduced her regular characters, Mo and her friends, while living in St. In 1986, Firebrand Books published a collection of the strips to date. However, its structure eventually evolved into a focus on following a set group of lesbian characters. In the first years, Dykes to Watch Out For consisted of unconnected strips without a regular cast or serialized storyline. After a year, other outlets began running the strip. Dykes to Watch Out For began this process, developing into a series of posters and postcards, allowing for people to have a look into the urban lesbian community. Bechdel gradually moved from her early single-panel drawings to multi-paneled strips.
An acquaintance recommended she send her work to WomaNews, a feminist newspaper, which published her first work in its June 1983 issue. She began Dykes to Watch Out For as a single drawing labeled "Marianne, dissatisfied with the morning brew: Dykes to Watch Out For, plate no.
Career īechdel at a London signing for Fun Home in 2006īechdel moved to Manhattan during the summer of 1981 and applied to several art schools, but was rejected and worked in many office jobs in the publishing industry. After her father died in 1980, her mother sold the family house, in Beech Creek, Pennsylvania, the small town where Bechdel grew up, and moved to Bellefonte, a less provincial small town near State College with her long-time partner Dr. She graduated with a degree in studio arts and art history in 1981 from Oberlin College. in 1979 from Bard College at Simon's Rock. Bechdel left high school a year early and earned her A.A. She has two brothers, Bruce "Christian" Bechdel II and John Bechdel, a keyboard player who has worked with many bands including Fear Factory, Ministry, Prong and Killing Joke. Both of her parents contributed to her career as a cartoonist. He was also a high school English teacher, working full-time and operating a funeral home part-time. Her father was an army veteran who was stationed in West Germany. She is the daughter of Helen Augusta ( née Fontana) and Bruce Allen Bechdel. She is also known for originating the Bechdel test.īechdel was born in Lock Haven, Pennsylvania. In 2012, she released her second graphic memoir Are You My Mother? She was a 2014 recipient of the MacArthur "Genius" Award. Originally known for the long-running comic strip Dykes to Watch Out For, she came to critical and commercial success in 2006 with her graphic memoir Fun Home, which was subsequently adapted as a musical that won a Tony Award for Best Musical in 2015. Alison Bechdel ( / ˈ b ɛ k d əl/ BEK-dəl born September 10, 1960) is an American cartoonist.
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