Alison Bechdel

Alison Bechdel’s most recent book is the graphic memoir Are You My Mother? A Comic Drama (2012). Last month she was awarded a MacArthur Foundation “Genius Grant.”

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Writing on Public Books

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A Curious Feat of Description

For Sarah Waters’s novel The Paying Guests (Riverhead, 2014), Public Books is simultaneously publishing a written review by Heather Love, “Give the People What They Want,” and an original one-panel illustration review by Alison Bechdel. My assignment was to create a one-panel graphic review of The Paying Guests. I swiftly accepted—I was eager to read […]

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