Alison Bechdel
Alison Bechdel was born in Lock Haven, Pennsylvania, United States on September 10th, 1960 and is the American Cartoonist. At the age of 63, Alison Bechdel biography, profession, age, height, weight, eye color, hair color, build, measurements, education, career, dating/affair, family, news updates, and networth are available.
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Bechdel moved to Manhattan during the summer of 1981 and applied to several art schools, but was rejected and worked in many office jobs in the publishing industry.
She began Dykes to Watch Out For as a single drawing labeled "Marianne, dissatisfied with the morning brew: Dykes to Watch Out For, plate no. 27". An acquaintance recommended she send her work to WomaNews, a feminist newspaper, which published her first work in its June 1983 issue. Bechdel gradually moved from her early single-panel drawings to multi-paneled strips. Dykes to Watch Out For began this process, developing into a series of posters and postcards, allowing for people to have a look into the urban lesbian community. After a year, other outlets began running the strip.
In the first years, Dykes to Watch Out For consisted of unconnected strips without a regular cast or serialized storyline. However, its structure eventually evolved into a focus on following a set group of lesbian characters. In 1986, Firebrand Books published a collection of the strips to date. In 1987, Bechdel introduced her regular characters, Mo and her friends, while living in St. Paul, Minnesota. Dykes to Watch Out For is the origin of the "Bechdel test", which has become a frequently used metric in cultural discussion of film. In 1988, she began a short-lived page-length strip about the staff of a queer newspaper, titled "Servants to the Cause", for The Advocate. Bechdel has also written and drawn autobiographical strips and has done illustrations for magazines and websites. The success of Dykes to Watch Out For allowed Bechdel to quit her day job in 1990 to work on the strip full-time.
In November 2006, Bechdel was invited to sit on the Usage Panel of the American Heritage Dictionary. In 2012, Bechdel was a Mellon Residential Fellow for Arts and Practice at the Richard and Mary L. Gray Center at the University of Chicago and co-taught "Lines of Transmission: Comics & Autobiography" with Professor Hillary Chute. On April 6, 2017, Bechdel was appointed as Vermont's third Cartoonist Laureate.
In 2014, she posted a comic strip based on her Fun Home! The Musical! After Donald Trump's election as U.S. president she posted three new episodes of Dykes to Watch Out For: "Pièce de Résistance," "Postcards From the Edge," and "Things Fall Apart."
Bechdel resides in Bolton, Vermont, and works with the Vermont-based alternative weekly Seven Days.
- Time Magazine listed Fun Home as one of its 10 Best Books of the Year for 2006
- Eisner Award for Best Reality-Based Work in 2007
- Stonewall Book Awards – Israel Fishman Non-Fiction Award in 2007.
- Guggenheim Fellowship, 2012
- Inkpot Award, 2012
- The Bill Whitehead Award for Lifetime Achievement from Publishing Triangle in 2012.
- The International Forum for Psychoanalytic Education Distinguished Educator Award in 2013
- A MacArthur Fellowship in 2014.
- Lambda Board of Trustees Award for Excellence in Literature in 2014.
- The Erikson Institute Prize for Excellence in Mental Health Media in 2015.
- Harvey Awards 2019 Hall of Fame inductee. The award was presented to Bechdel by Chip Kidd during the Harvey Awards at New York Comic Con.