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Alison Bechdel

City Arts & Lectures - August 26, 2021 22:26 - 57 minutes ★★★★ - 314 ratings
Alison Bechdel‘s cult following for her early comic strip Dykes to Watch Out For grew wildly in response to her family memoirs, the best-selling graphic memoir Fun Home, adapted into a Tony Award-winning musical, and Are You My Mother? She has become a cultural household name for the co...

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Alison Bechdel On Menopause, Mortality and Punching Pennies

Death, Sex & Money - May 26, 2021 16:00 - 33 minutes ★★★★★ - 7.1K ratings
Alison Bechdel went through menopause 10 years ago, when she was 50. I know this because she writes about it in her latest graphic memoir, called The Secret To Superhuman Strength. "I just felt crazy," Alison told me about that time in her life. "It was kind of like having really bad PMS for ext...

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Episode #145-ALISON BECHDEL discusses family, memoir, grief & more.

Sagittarian Matters - January 25, 2019 08:38 - 34 minutes ★★★★★ - 151 ratings
Today on the podcast, we welcome Alison Bechdel back to the show! Alison is the author of Fun Home, Are You My Mother? and Dykes to Watch Out For.  She joined NJG to discuss family, memoir, grief, social media, and MORE.    You can find an illustrated excerpt of this interview in the Nib's F...

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Design Matters from the Archive: Alison Bechdel

Design Matters with Debbie Millman - August 07, 2017 20:00 ★★★★★ - 1.2K ratings
Debbie talks to Alison Bechdel about how identifying herself as a lesbian when she was young led her into a career as a cartoonist.

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BONUS: 'Fun Home' author Alison Bechdel thought a fan was her Uber

Decoder with Nilay Patel - February 08, 2017 14:53 - 32 minutes ★★★★ - 2.4K ratings
"Fun Home" author and "Dykes to Watch Out For" creator Alison Bechdel talks with Recode's Kara Swisher in front of a live audience in San Francisco shortly after a performance of the Tony Award-winning musical based on "Fun Home." Bechdel says the rise of social media after her hit book led to wi...

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Episode #42-ALISON BECHDEL!!!

Sagittarian Matters - November 18, 2016 10:22 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 151 ratings
Enjoy some post-election despair and comics talk with "Fun Home" and "Dykes to Watch Out For" creator Alison Bechdel!!!

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Alison Bechdel

Design Matters with Debbie Millman - May 09, 2016 20:00 ★★★★★ - 1.2K ratings
Debbie talks to Alicon Bechdel about how identifying herself as a lesbian when she was young lead her into a career as a cartoonist.