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Are You My Mother? by Alison Bechdel
Category: Childrens
Alison Bechdel’s Fun Home was a pop culture and literary phenomenon. Now, a second thrilling tale of filial sleuthery, this time about her mother: voracious reader, music lover, passionate amateur actor. Also a woman, unhappily married to a closeted gay man, whose artistic aspirations simmered under the ...Show more
Are You My Mother? by Alison Bechdel
Category: Biography
Alison Bechdel's "Fun Home", her remarkable graphic memoir about her father, established itself immediately as a classic of the genre, being chosen as "Time" Magazine's Best Book of the Year for 2006, while "The Times" called it 'a profound and important book'. Now Bechdel has written another memoir, eq ...Show more
Are You My Mother?: A Comic Drama by Alison Bechdel
Category: Fiction
From the best-selling author of "Fun Home," "Time "magazine's No. 1 Book of the Year, a brilliantly told graphic memoir of Alison Bechdel becoming the artist her mother wanted to be. Alison Bechdel's "Fun Home" was a pop culture and literary phenomenon. Now, a second thrilling tale of filial sleuthery, ...Show more
Essential Dykes to Watch Out For by Alison Bechdel
Category: Mythology | Series: Dykes to Watch Out For
For twenty-five years Bechdel’s path-breaking Dykes to Watch Out For strip has been collected in award-winning volumes (with a quarter of a million copies in print), syndicated in fifty alternative newspapers, and translated into many languages. Now, at last, The Essential Dykes to Watch Out For gathers ...Show more
Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic by Alison Bechdel
Category: Biography
**ONE OF THE GUARDIAN'S 100 BEST BOOKS OF THE 21st CENTURY**DISCOVER the BESTSELLING GRAPHIC MEMOIR behind the 2019 Olivier Award nominated musical. 'A sapphic graphic treat' The Times A moving and darkly humorous family tale, pitch-perfectly illustrated with Alison Bechdel's gothic drawings. If you l ...Show more
Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic by Alison Bechdel
Category: Biography
One of the most eagerly anticipated graphic memoirs of recent years, FUN HOME is a darkly funny family tale, pitch-perfectly illustrated with Alison Bechdel's sweetly gothic drawings. Like Marjane Satrapi's Persepolis, it's a story exhilaratingly suited to graphic memoir form.Meet Alison's father, a his ...Show more
Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic by Alison Bechdel
Category: Graphic Novels
In this groundbreaking, bestselling graphic memoir, Alison Bechdel charts her fraught relationship with her late father. In her hands, personal history becomes a work of amazing subtlety and power, written with controlled force and enlivened with humor, rich literary allusion, and heartbreaking detail. ...Show more
Stuck Rubber Baby 25th Anniversary Edition by Howard Cruse; Alison Bechdel (Introduction by)
Category: Graphic Novels
Painstakingly researched and exquisitely illustrated, Stuck Rubber Baby is a groundbreaking graphic novel that draws on Howard Cruse's experience coming of age and coming out in 1960s Birmingham, Alabama. This 25th anniversary edition brings this rich and moving tale of identity and resistance is b ...Show more
The Best American Comics 2011 by Alison Bechdel
Category: Fiction | Series: Best American Comics
"The Best American Comics" showcases the work of both established and up-and-coming contributors. Bechdelas culled the best stories from graphic novels, pamphlet comics, newspapers, magazines, mini-comics, and Web comics to create this cutting-edge collection.
The Essential Dykes to Watch Out for by Alison Bechdel
Category: Graphic Novels | Series: Dykes to Watch Out For
Alison Bechdel's once-underground work Dykes To Watch Out For has become a counterculture institution. The first strips were stand-alone pieces, each offering an eye-opening and acerbically funny insight into the Lesbian society of 1980s America. Here we learnt the terminology of that world ('Luppies', ...Show more
The Secret to Superhuman Strength by Alison Bechdel
Category: Graphic Novels
From the author of Fun Home, a profoundly affecting graphic memoir of Bechdel's lifelong love affair with exercise, set against a hilarious chronicle of fitness fads in our times Comics and cultural superstar Alison Bechdel delivers a deeply layered story of her fascination, from childhood to adulth ...Show more