Alison Bechdel

Internationally Recognized Cartoonist & Author of "Fun Home"

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Vermont, USA
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Alison Bechdel Biography

Alison Bechdel is an internationally beloved cartoonist whose darkly humorous graphic memoirs, astute writing, and evocative drawing have forged an unlikely intimacy with a wide and disparate range of readers.

For twenty-five years Alison self-syndicated Dykes to Watch Out For. The award-winning generational chronicle has been called “one of the pre-eminent oeuvres in the comics genre, period” by Ms. Magazine. From the strip was born the now famous “Bechdel Test,” which measures gender bias in film.

Her first graphic novel Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic was named the Best Book of the year by TIME, describing the tightly architected investigation into her closeted bisexual father’s suicide “a masterpiece about two people who live in the same house but different worlds, and their mysterious debts to each other.” Fun Home was a finalist for a National Book Critics Circle Award and was adapted into a Broadway musical that has won five Tony Awards, including “Best Musical.” Alison is also the author of Are You My Mother? A Comic Drama which delves into her relationship with her mother, as well as the theories of the 20th-century British psychoanalyst Donald Winnicott. Her profoundly affecting graphic memoir titled The Secret to Superhuman Strength was released in 2021. The Guardian calls the memoir, “quietly astonishing” and “extraordinarily generous.”

Alison was the recipient of a 2012 Guggenheim Fellowship and in 2014 she received a MacArthur “Genius” Grant. In their citation, the MacArthur Foundation noted that Alison “is changing our notions of the contemporary memoir and expanding the expressive potential of the graphic form.” In 2017, Alison was ushered in as Vermont’s third cartoonist laureate.

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Speaker profile last updated by AAE Talent Team on 08/07/2024.

Alison Bechdel Videos

  • Aspen Words Presents: Slopeside with Alison Bechdel & Beth Malone
  • Alison Bechdel, Author of 'Are You My Mother?' - WSJ Interview
  • On the Fly: Alison Bechdel

Alison Bechdel Books

  • Are You My Mother?: A Comic Drama
    Are You My Mother?: A Comic Drama
  • The Essential Dykes to Watch Out For
    The Essential Dykes to Watch Out For
  • Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic
    Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic
  • Invasion of the Dykes to Watch Out For
    Invasion of the Dykes to Watch Out For
  • Dykes and Sundry Other Carbon-Based Life Forms to Watch Out For
    Dykes and Sundry Other Carbon-Based Life Forms to Watch Out For
  • Post-Dykes to Watch Out for
    Post-Dykes to Watch Out for

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Alison Bechdel is a keynote speaker and industry expert who speaks on a wide range of topics . The estimated speaking fee range to book Alison Bechdel for your event is available upon request. Alison Bechdel generally travels from VT, USA and can be booked for (private) corporate events, personal appearances, keynote speeches, or other performances. Similar motivational celebrity speakers are Charlene Strong, Laura Stack, Linda Ellerbee, Janet Mock and Cynthia Lowen. Contact All American Speakers for ratings, reviews, videos and information on scheduling Alison Bechdel for an upcoming live or virtual event.

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