Watch Out for Alison Bechdel
Friday, March 23 at 11 a.m.
Bulmer Telecommunications Center Auditorium
Alison Bechdel, creator of the comic strip “Dykes to Watch Out For” (1983-2008), one of the earliest portrayals of lesbians in popular culture, first earned critical and commercial success in 2006 with “Fun Home.” That graphic memoir was adapted for Broadway and won the 2015 Tony Award for Best Musical. A second book, “Are You My Mother?,” was published in 2012. Bechdel’s direct social commentary and drawings have reached a wide and disparate audience of readers, now fans, and earned the Oberlin College graduate a MacArthur Foundation Fellowship, aka “Genius Award,” in 2014. DTWOF was resurrected briefly in 2016, allowing Bechdel’s characters to react to the outcome of the Presidential election, and single strips now appear when “inspiration strikes” the artist.
A Q&A session and book signing follow Bechdel’s talk. This event is co-sponsored by the Cultural Affairs Program and the English, Foreign Languages and English as a Second Language Department.
All are welcome to attend.
Published: Thu, 22 Mar 2018 12:43:03 +0000 by d.gardner