Okay, I just added a corollary to the Bechdel test: Two men talking to each other about the female protagonist of an Alice Munro story in a screenplay structured on a Jane Austen novel = pass.
#FireIsland
#BechdelTest
Today's the launch of the
@PenguinClassics
edition of To The Lighthouse--for which I drew the cover art. Very excited to be a contributor to this gorgeous series. I've written a little about my process here
Met a young farmer just now at the farmer's market who recognized me and said she'd always wanted to raise a herd of goats and name them after Dykes To Watch Out For characters.
#ilovermont
I am so sad and stunned. Howard Cruse died suddenly today. He is one of the sweetest people I have ever encountered, period, and he was super generous to me when I was a young cartoonist coming to him for advice. What a blow. The world has lost a true comics superhero.
The
#FunHomeSL
team. Grateful for the opportunity to stage
@KronLisa
and Tesori's beautiful adaptation of
@AlisonBechdel
's memoir. It's a testament to the genius of the writing and music that this story resonated with Sri Lankan audiences, worlds away from Pennsylvania.
#FunHome
Can’t believe my friend Urvashi Vaid has died--a brilliant visionary and activist who was also a seriously kind person. Where did all her fierce, vital energy go? This is an immeasurable loss to the world. Love to her partner
@KateClinton
.
This is so awesome, and long overdue for movies. "To pass this test, Good Energy says a story must demonstrate two things: “climate change exists” and “a character knows it."
"Absolutely flawless." Audible Dykes to Watch Out For wins an Audiofile award. Thank you,
@Janemarielynch
and
@susiebright
and
@MaraWilson
and everyone else who worked on this thing!
I'm so happy to see JEB's photographs in the Times! She was a huge influence on me as a young artist--her photos of lesbians felt like an extended family album.
📣 Alison Bechdel sera à Paris du 8 au 14 septembre pour accompagner la sortie de son nouveau roman graphique en français, Le Secret de la force surhumaine (sortie le 31 août chez Denoël Graphic) Elle fera notamment une rencontre dans un MK2 👀
Ed Koren, consummate imp. His cartoons were gentle, humane, wise, and funny. And he was so kind in person. I will miss him. (I drew this portrait some years ago, trying to imagine how he drew those furry lines.)
New twist in the book banning madness--"destroying" books. Thanks to Dave Eggers and Amanda Uhle for their plan to buy copies of these five books for students who want them. via
@RCJournal
my twin
@JessicaLWareLab
and I both got each other
@AlisonBechdel
‘s new book for our birthday and we each also got ourselves a copy without knowing about the presents... so in the end we now have four copies! Ha! Twin power! A great book! Loving it!
🧵Since August,
#Missouri
school districts have banned nearly 300 books, including works on Leonardo da Vinci, graphic novel adaptations of classics by Shakespeare and Mark Twain as well as The Gettysburg Address, the Pulitzer-prize winning Maus, and more.
When my friend Ellis Avery was writing this book, at the end of her life, it inspired me to make some drawings from it for her. Now I've done a full set of illustrations for TREE OF CATS.
Ellis Avery's final novel, TREE OF CATS, is now available on Kindle, with illustrations by the amazing
@AlisonBechdel
.
(Click on the image to see it in full.)
# 341 in candy wrapper fashion, Alison Bechdel, author of Fun Home,wearing fun-size Snickers. (
@AlisonBechdel
is appearing live Thursday night at Rococo Theatre in Lincoln,courtesy
@UNLwriters
of the
@UNLincoln
@unlenglish
!)
@unlcas
Celebrating 50 Years of LGBTQ Studies at UNL
Pre-order Very Funny Ladies now!
@lizadonnelly
's latest book is a treasure trove of New Yorker cartoons by women from the beginning of the magazine to the present.
Okay, here’s something concrete to do. Kansas is a haven for abortion rights in a very red part of the country. But an upcoming ballot initiative could change all that. Pitch in to help—a win would send a powerful message.
Check out the hilarious and erudite Terry Castle in this riveting podcast about Patricia Highsmith. I especially like the way she conveys how much more difficult it was to be queer in the not so distant past.
The best journalistic take I’ve seen yet on our political malaise is
@Emilynussbaum
’s deep dive into the current state of country music. Even if you have zero interest in country music, you must read it.
A war is being raged against
#women
in
#Iran
. The regime wants them to stay silent. Support their
#freedom
fight and break the blackout by signing and sharing this global call!
#MahsaAmini
#thisqueerbook
is a very good new podcast, love its meta take on reading. It was fun talking about Fun Home with the host @ J.P. Der Boghossian, and author Lara Lillibridge.
“Why are they so hell-bent on not dying?”
@AlisonBechdel
asks
@karaswisher
of Silicon Valley’s obsession with living forever. “Who wants to be on this planet in 70 more years?”
Saturday: In person (NYC) + virtual! An incredible conversation with two leading
#LGBTQ
authors:
@LucyBledsoe
(NO STOPPING US NOW) and MacArthur Fellow
@AlisonBechdel
(THE KEY TO SUPERHUMAN STRENGTH). At the fabulous
@BGSQD
Start your Pride month early!
So sad about Sally Gearheart's death. She was a big formative influence--first, her chapter in the book of the film Word is Out, then later A Feminist Tarot. Looking forward to the documentary about her.
1/2 Today I’m participating in a zoom panel at a queer film festival in Moscow with some other cartoonists for the doc we’re in, No Straight Lines. One of the organizers just told us the festival website has been blacklisted after complaints from ultra right wing groups.