About Alison Bechdel
Alison Bechdel is an American cartoonist and MacArthur Fellow. She is best known for her award-winning autobiographical novel Fun Home, the musical adaptation of which won the Tony Award for Best Musical in 2015. She also wrote the comic strip Dykes to Watch Out For from 1983 to 2008. Dykes to Watch Out For also introduced and popularized the Bechdel Test, which is still used to draw attention to gender representation and sexism in film.
Alison Bechdel Biography & Criticism
Alison Bechdel: Conversations by Call Number: PN 6727 .B43 Z5 A4 2018ISBN: 9781496819260Publication Date: 2018-10-18
The Comics of Alison Bechdel by Call Number: PN 6727 .B43 Z5 C66 2020ISBN: 9781496825773Publication Date: 2019
Confronting Visuality in Multi-Ethnic Women's Writing by Call Number: PS 151 .L34 2014 (Hatcher)ISBN: 9781137413031Publication Date: 2014-08-07
Alison Bechdel Bibliography
Major works by Alison Bechdel in the U-M Library collection. For others, do an author search in the Library Catalog for "Bechdel, Alison, 1960-".
See also Alison Bechdel comics available online in the Underground and Independent Comics database.
The Essential Dykes to Watch Out For by Call Number: PN 6728 .D94 B475 2008ISBN: 9780618968800Publication Date: 2008
The Secret to Superhuman Strength by Call Number: OverDriveISBN: 9780544387652Publication Date: 2021
Published Interviews with Alison Bechdel
- Ordinary Insurrections: Alison Bechdel Interviewed by Marny Hallby Bechdel, Alison and Marny Hall. Journal of Lesbian Studies, Volume 5, Issue 3 (2001).
- An Interview with Alison Bechdelby Hillary Chute, MFS Modern Fiction Studies Vol. 52, Issue 4 (2007).
- Public Conversation: Alison Bechdel and Hillary Chuteby Lisa Ruddick, Critical Inquiry Vol. 40, Issue 3 (March 1, 2014).
Alison Bechdel Articles
A selection of journal articles about Alison Bechdel and her works. To find more, search in Library Articles Search on "Alison Bechdel", limiting to articles from scholarly journals.
- Alison Bechdel: Graphic Alchemistby Killacky, John R. The Gay & Lesbian Review Worldwide 19.5 (Sep/Oct 2012).
- Are You My Mother? Understanding Feminist Therapy with Alison Bechdelby Magnet, Shoshana
Women & Therapy 40.1-2 (2017): 207-227. - Closing the Gap in Alison Bechdel's Fun Homeby Lemberg, Jennifer. WSQ: Women's Studies Quarterly 36.1-2 (2008 Spring-Summer).
- Daddy's Little Girl: Multigenerational Queer Relationships in Bechdel's Fun Homeby Miriam Brown Spiers, Studies in Comics Vol. 1, Issue 2 (2010).
- Drawing the Archive in Alison Bechdel's "Fun Home"by Cvetkovich, Ann. Women's Studies Quarterly, Volume 36, No. 1/2, Witness (Spring - Summer, 2008).
- Drawing on Modernism in Alison Bechdel's Fun Homeby Freedman, Ariela. Journal of Modern Literature 32.4 (Summer 2009).
- Graphic Analysis: Transitional Phenomena in Alison Bechdel's Are You My Mother?by Lisa Diedrich, Configurations Vol. 22, Issue 2 (2014).
- In the Queer Archive: Fun Homeby Valerie Rohy, GLQ: A Journal of Lesbian and Gay Studies Vol. 16, Issue 3 (2010).
- Penelopean aesthetics in Fun Home: drawing queer potentialiesby Cristina Salcedo González, Journal of Graphic Novels and Comics Vol. 12, Issue 2 (2021)
- Proustian curiosity and the archive: Alison Bechdel’s Fun HomeSantiago Parga Linares (2021). Journal of Graphic Novels and Comics, 12:5, 780-796
- Queering Genre: Alison Bechdel’s Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic and The Essential Dykes to Watch Out Forby Judith Kegan Gardiner, Contemporary Women's Writing Vol. 5, issue 3 (2011).
- Queering the Museum: Challenging Heteronormative Space in Bechdel's Fun Homeby Michael Rerick, Journal of Graphic Novels and Comics Vol. 3, Issue 2 (2012).
- Seeing in Alison Bechdel's Fun Homeby Mcbean, Sam. Camera Obscura 2013, Volume 28, Number 3.
- Troubling Boundaries and Negotiating Dominant Culture: Fun Home as a Transmedial Textby Jeanette D’Arcy, The Comics Grid Vol. 9, Issue 1 (2019).
- Vital Lines Drawn from Books: Difficult Feelings in Alison Bechdel's Fun Home and Are You My Mother?by Heike Bauer, Journal of Lesbian Studies Vol. 18, Issue 3 (2014).
- Women's Experimental Autobiography from Counterculture Comics to Transmedia Storytellingby Jenkins, Alexandra Mary (dissertation)