 Alison
Bechdel (born
September 10,
1960)
is a
US
comics artist, best known for the
lesbian
comic strip
Dykes To Watch Out For.
Alison Bechdel was born in
Lock Haven, Pennsylvania to a
Catholic family of teachers. In 1981 she graduated from
Oberlin College and moved to
New York City. Alison applied to many
art schools but was rejected and worked in a number of office
jobs in the publishing industry.
According to Indelible Alison Bechdel, 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 that she send her work to
Womannews newspaper, which began to publish the strip
regularly in July-August issue of
1983.
After a year it spread to number of other papers.
In the first years the strip consisted of unconnected strips
that were collected into her first paperback book, Dykes to Watch
Out For, published by
Firebrand Books in the fall of
1986.
In 1987, when Bechdel was living in St. Paul, she introduced
the regular characters, Mo and her friends (see
Dykes to Watch Out For for these). In
1990
she became a full-time cartoonist.
She later moved near
Burlington, Vermont, where she met her partner, writer
Amy Rubin, in 1992.
In addition to the strip, Bechdel has also made
autobiographical strips and drawn illustrations for a number
of magazines and websites.
Books
- The Indelible Alison Bechdel: Confessions, Comix, and
Miscellaneous Dykes to Watch Out For (1998)
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