{"id":10724,"date":"2018-03-22T12:43:03","date_gmt":"2018-03-22T16:43:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/chronicle.hvcc.edu\/wpdev\/cartoonist-alison-bechdel-on-campus-friday-march-23\/"},"modified":"2018-03-22T12:43:03","modified_gmt":"2018-03-22T16:43:03","slug":"cartoonist-alison-bechdel-on-campus-friday-march-23","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chronicle.hvcc.edu\/wpdev\/cartoonist-alison-bechdel-on-campus-friday-march-23\/","title":{"rendered":"Cartoonist Alison Bechdel on campus Friday, March 23"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Watch Out for Alison Bechdel<\/strong><br \/>\nFriday, March 23 at 11 a.m.<br \/>\nBulmer Telecommunications Center Auditorium<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/chronicle.hvcc.edu\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/Bechdel-Alison.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-82982 alignright\" src=\"http:\/\/chronicle.hvcc.edu\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/Bechdel-Alison-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Alison Bechdel, creator of the comic strip \u201cDykes to Watch Out For\u201d (1983-2008), one of the earliest portrayals of lesbians in popular culture, first earned critical and commercial success in 2006 with \u201cFun Home.\u201d That graphic memoir was adapted for Broadway and won the 2015 Tony Award for Best Musical. A second book, \u201cAre You My Mother?,\u201d was published in 2012. Bechdel\u2019s 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 \u201cGenius Award,\u201d in 2014. DTWOF was resurrected briefly in 2016, allowing Bechdel\u2019s characters to react to the outcome of the Presidential election, and single strips now appear when \u201cinspiration strikes\u201d the artist.<\/p>\n<p>A Q&amp;A session and book signing follow Bechdel\u2019s talk. This event is co-sponsored by the Cultural Affairs Program and the English, Foreign Languages and English as a Second Language Department.<\/p>\n<p>All are welcome to attend.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Published:<\/strong>\u00a0Thu, 22 Mar 2018 12:43:03 +0000 by\u00a0d.gardner<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; Watch Out for Alison Bechdel Friday, March 23 at 11 a.m. Bulmer Telecommunications Center Auditorium Alison Bechdel, creator of&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2086,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[161],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10724","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-student-announcement-college-related"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/chronicle.hvcc.edu\/wpdev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10724","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/chronicle.hvcc.edu\/wpdev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/chronicle.hvcc.edu\/wpdev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chronicle.hvcc.edu\/wpdev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2086"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chronicle.hvcc.edu\/wpdev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10724"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/chronicle.hvcc.edu\/wpdev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10724\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chronicle.hvcc.edu\/wpdev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10724"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chronicle.hvcc.edu\/wpdev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10724"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chronicle.hvcc.edu\/wpdev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10724"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}