Here's a bit of good news. New book coming from Alison Bechdel and it looks like we'll get to catch up with some old friends
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Here's a bit of good news. New book coming from Alison Bechdel and it looks like we'll get to catch up with some old friends
https://www.instagram.com/reel/DE8nmvtPJDq/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link
Today in Writing History September 10, 1960: Alison Bechdel, American author and illustrator was born. She is most famous for her “Dykes to Watch Out For,” comic strip. And for her “Bechdel Test,” originally intended as a joke in one of her comics, but which has since become a routine metric used by critics as an indicator for the active presence of women in a film.
#workingclass #lgbtq #lgbtqia #alisonbechdel #women #feminism #DykesToWatchOutFor #comics #artist #writer #author #books @bookstadon
$20 Half Price Books pickup- #AlisonBechdel . #DanPiraro and The Bradleys possibly signed by #PeterBagge. There is a signed edition of 900 of this book but the examples I've seen on eBay are signed P Bagge and say 900. Not sure if this is really signed or something else but for the price I'm happy.
#vendredilecture multi-offert, multi-apprécié, mais pas encore lu ! Le secret de la force surhumaine, d'#AlisonBechdel
How #AlisonBechdel remains #relevant 40 years on.
#DIVA takes a look at the unwavering #popularity of the #infamous #DykesToWatchOutFor
#Women #Lesbians #LGBTQ #LGBTQIA #Entertainment #Media #Representation #Culture #RoleModels
Today in Writing History September 10, 1960: Alison Bechdel, American author and illustrator was born. She is most famous for her “Dykes to Watch Out For,” comic strip. And for her “Bechdel Test,” originally intended as a joke in one of her comics, but which has since become a routine metric used by critics as an indicator for the active presence of women in a film.
#WorkingClass #lgbtq #lgbtqia #AlisonBechdel #women #feminism #DykesToWatchOutFor #comics #artist #writer #author #books @bookstadon
Really enjoyed the Fun Home musical at the Gate Theatre. A rollercoaster of a show.
CW for suicide in the show
#FunHome #FunHomeMusical #AlisonBechdel #Dublin #GateTheatre
Went to see #FunHome in the #GateTheatreDublin last night. Great performances and very much worth seeing (albeit very intense in places as you'll know if you've encountered the source material before). I think there are only a few days left in the run, so book now if you're booking!
I'd seen Fun Home on Broadway seven years ago, before I started E, and I didn't cry at all. E makes a big difference. #FunHome #FunHomeMusical #AlisonBechdel #JeanineTesori #LisaKron #NextToNormal #TomKitt #BrianYork #TransitionMilestones
Just saw a production of Fun Home and I absolutely bawled at Telephone Wire. I've never cried like that at a work of fiction, not even Next to Normal.
(But I hadn't started estrogen when I saw Next to Normal.) #FunHome #FunHomeMusical #AlisonBechdel #JeanineTesori #LisaKron #NextToNormal #TomKitt #BrianYork #TransitionMilestones
Alison Bechdel talks to the Guardian https://www.theguardian.com/books/2023/jul/02/alison-bechdel-test-dykes-to-watch-out-for-cartoonist-interview
I had no idea Dykes To Watch Out For was being adapted into an audio series. Loved those comics.
Just finished reading Mimosa by Archie Bongiovanni (graphic novel).
It's very reminiscent of Dykes To Watch Out For by Alison Bechdel, while still at the same time being its own fresh/original/independent thing.
"Best friends and chosen family Chris [a nonbinary person]; Elise; Jo [a trans woman]; and Alex [a trans man] work hard to keep themselves afloat. Their regular brunches hold them together even as the rest of their lives threaten to fall apart. In an effort to avoid being the oldest gays at the party, the crew decides to put on a new queer event called Grind–specifically for homos in their dirty thirties.
Grind is a welcome distraction from their real problems: after a messy divorce, Chris adjusts to being a single parent while struggling to reconnect to their queer community. Elise is caught between feelings for her boss and the career of her dreams. Jo tries to navigate the murky boundaries of being a supportive friend and taking care of her own needs. And Alex is guarding a secret that might change his friendships forever.
While navigating exes at work, physical and mental exhaustion, and drinking way, way too much on weekdays, this chosen family proves that being messy doesn’t always go away with age."
#LGBT
#LGBTcomics
#QueerComics
#ArchieBongiovanni
#Bongiovanni
#Mimosa
#AlisonBechdel
#DykesToWatchOutFor
Bücherschrank diese Woche extra lieb zu mir mit zwei Titeln von #AlisonBechdel Hab ca. bei Erscheinen »Fun Home« (2006 / Dt. 2008) gelesen und freue mich schon auf mir unbekannten Band »Wer ist hier die Mutter?« (2012 / Dt. 2014).
Gerade als Phantast weiß ich ›geerdete‹ Dramen zu schätzen.
“In this pause, I suddenly saw something very clearly. Whatever it was I wanted from my mother was simply not there to be had. It was not her fault. And it was therefore not my fault that I was unable to elicit it.”
― Alison Bechdel, "Are You My Mother?"
#BookWormSat #BookChatWeekly #literature #comics #memoir #AlisonBechdel
@Miragee I liked The Secret To Superhuman Strength :-)
Finished my 52nd book of the year on Christmas Day. Alison Bechdel’s The Secret to Superhuman Strength! #NowReading #AlisonBechdel #Comics #GraphicMemoir #QueerComics #QueerBooks
I continue the custom of introducing my interests via #hashtag by listing the 10 #GraphicNovels to know me by.
#Maus - #ArtSpiegelman
#TheSandman - #NeilGaiman
#Watchmen - #AlanMoore
#TheThrillingAdventuresofLovelaceandBabbage - #SydneyPadua
#BlackPanther - #TanehisiCoates
#TheyCalledUsEnemy - #GeorgeTakei @georgetakei
#FunHome - #AlisonBechdel
#FromHell - also Moore
#Bone - #JeffSmith
#CityOfGlass - #PaulAuster
I'm posting some of my favorite #GraphicNovels as I am new to the genre and hoping to get recommendations for future reads:
#Persepolis (#MarjaneSatrapi)
#Syllabus (#LyndaBarry)
#FunHouse (#AlisonBechdel) - really anything by #Bechdel
#Laguardia (#NnediOkorafor)
#SeekYou (#KristenRadtke)
#OnASunbeam (#TillieWalden)
@bookstodon what else should I be reading?