Bio: Alison Bechdel, a careful archivist of her own life, began keeping a journal when she was ten. Since 1983, she has been chronicling the lives of various characters in the Dykes to Watch Out For strip, “one of the preeminent oeuvres in the comics genre, period” (Ms.). The strip is syndicated in dozens of newspapers, translated into several languages and collected in a series of award-winning books. Utne magazine has listed DTWOF as “one of the greatest hits of the twentieth century.” And Comics Journal says, “Bechdel’s art distills the pleasures of Friends and The Nation; we recognize our world in it, with its sorrows and ironies.”

In addition to her comic strip, Bechdel has also done exclusive work for a slew of publications, including Ms., Slate, the Advocate, and many other newspapers, websites, comic books, and ‘zines.

She is also the author of the best-selling Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic, A National Book Critics Circle Award Finalist. Time Magazine named Fun Home the number one Best Book of 2006, calling it “A masterpiece about two people who live in the same house but different worlds, and their mysterious debts to each other.”

The Essential Dykes To Watch Out For, a collection of her comic strips, will be published by Houghton Mifflin in November.

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Dykes and Sundry Other Carbon-Based Life Forms to Watch Out For
Dykes to Watch Out for: The Sequel
Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic
Hot, Throbbing Dykes to Watch Out for
Invasion of the Dykes to Watch Out For
More Dykes to Watch Out for
New Improved!: Dykes to Watch Out for
Post-Dykes to Watch Out For
Spawn of Dykes to Watch Out for
Split-Level Dykes to Watch Out for
The Indelible Alison Bechdel
Unnatural Dykes to Watch Out for
What Do Cats Dream
What Do Dogs Dream

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