Alison Bechdel

Brings together a new collection of cartoons recounting the lives and loves of a diverse group of lesbian friends.

The Essential Dykes to Watch Out for

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 adulthood, with every fitness craze to come down the pike: from Jack LaLanne in the 60s ("Outlandish jumpsuit! Cantaloupe-sized guns!") to the existential oddness of present-day spin class. Readers will see their athletic or semi-active pasts flash before their eyes through an ever-evolving panoply of running shoes, bicycles, skis, and sundry other gear. But the more Bechdel tries to improve herself, the more her self appears to be the thing in her way. She turns for enlightenment to Eastern philosophers and literary figures, including Beat writer Jack Kerouac, whose search for self-transcendence in the great outdoors appears in moving conversation with the author's own. This gifted artist and not-getting-any-younger exerciser comes to a soulful conclusion. The secret to superhuman strength lies not in six-pack abs, but in something much less clearly defined: facing her own non-transcendent but all-important interdependence with others. A heartrendingly comic chronicle for our times.

The Secret to Superhuman Strength

Depicts the author's mother as a voracious reader, music lover, and passionate amateur actress who quietly suffers as the wife of a closeted gay artist and withdraws from her young daughter, who searches for answers to the separation later in life.

A Comic Drama

Are You My Mother?

An unusual memoir done in the form of a graphic novel by a cult favorite comic artist offers a darkly funny family portrait that details her relationship with her father, a historic preservation expert dedicated to restoring the family's Victorian ho

A Family Tragicomic

Fun Home

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. Distant and exacting, Bruce Bechdel was an English teacher and director of the town funeral home, which Alison and her family referred to as the "Fun Home." It was not until college that Alison, who had recently come out as a lesbian, discovered that her father was also gay. A few weeks after this revelation, he was dead, leaving a legacy of mystery for his daughter to resolve.

Grin, giggle, and guffaw your way through this celebrated cartoonist's graphic commentary of contemporary lesbian life.

Dykes to Watch Out for

tragikomiks rodzinny

Fun home

In Alison Bechdel’s hilariously skewering and gloriously cast new comic novel confection, a cartoonist named Alison Bechdel, running a pygmy goat sanctuary in Vermont, is existentially irked by a climate-challenged world and a citizenry on the brink of civil war. She wonders: Can she pull humanity out of its death spiral by writing a scathingly self-critical memoir about her own greed and privilege?

A Comic Novel

Spent

Tras nueve años de silencio, llega la obra de madurez de Alison Bechdel. Un libro emocionante y necesario. Durante toda su vida, Alison Bechdel ha buscado un secreto escurridizo. Ha rastreado en sus libros preferidos, en las vidas de sus ídolos, en el celibato, en el poliamor, en el activismo y en la terapia psicológica, pero sobre todo en su pasión casi obsesiva por hacer ejercicio: esquí, running, kárate, ciclismo, yoga# lo que fuera. Sin embargo, al hacerse mayor, el cuerpo ya no siempre le sigue, quizá porque el secreto más importante de todos no esté donde una espera. En su tercer libro de memorias gráficas, tras Fun Home y ¿Eres mi madre? , Alison Bechdel teje un relato íntimo sobre la identidad, la mortalidad, la adicción, la alegría, la fortuna y las preocupaciones de toda una generación. El secreto de la fuerza sobrehumana es una crónica extraordinaria e hilarante sobre los arcanos de la búsqueda de nuestro lugar en el mundo. La crítica ha dicho... «Una autora esencial que toda biblioteca de diversidad debe incluir.» Nieves Gascón, 20 Minutos «Una auténtica gozada, nadie hace mejores cómics.» New York Times Book Review «Un libro fabuloso [...] Absolutamente absorbente.» The Atlantic «Sus terceras memorias gráficas y su tercer triunfo.» Vulture «Un libro grácil y relajado, con una ausencia de miedo que se traduce en sencillez, disciplina y modestia.» The New York Times «Bechdel se propuso escribir un libro ligero [...] pero como suele ocurrir, tanto su historia como su arte van mucho más allá y nos hablan de la vejez, la búsqueda por la trascendencia y el pulso de la mortalidad.» The Washington Post «Lo mejor de leer un libro de Bechdel es ver cómo hace conexiones alucinantes de elementos aparentemente dispares, y sentir que, por extraño que parezca, estás tan perdido como ella.» Oprah Daily «Una inmersión literaria e ilustrada en las modas pasajeras del fitness: fiel a su estilo, Bechdel resulta reflexiva y profunda.» Vanity Fair «Una obra densa y enorme, en el mejor de los sentidos, que la legión de fans de Bechdel devorará con inmenso placer.» Booklist «Luchando con el deseo de trascendencia en los términos más intensos y personales, Bechdel logra un equilibrio delicado, incluso revelador.» Publishers Weekly «Una autobiografía serena, divertida y reflexiva cuya intensidad se ve aligerada con sorprendentes toques de elegancia.» Minneapolis Star-Tribune

El secreto de la fuerza sobrehumana

Alison Bechdel’s Dykes to Watch Out For

The New York Times–bestselling graphic memoir about Alison Bechdel, author of Fun Home, 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, 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 surface of Bechdel's childhood…and who stopped touching or kissing her daughter good night, forever, when she was seven. Poignantly, hilariously, Bechdel embarks on a quest for answers concerning the mother-daughter gulf. It's a richly layered search that leads readers from the fascinating life and work of the iconic twentieth-century psychoanalyst Donald Winnicott, to one explosively illuminating Dr. Seuss illustration, to Bechdel’s own (serially monogamous) adult love life. And, finally, back to Mother—to a truce, fragile and real-time, that will move and astonish all adult children of gifted mothers. A New York Times, USA Today, Time, Slate, and Barnes & Noble Best Book of the Year “As complicated, brainy, inventive and satisfying as the finest prose memoirs.”—New York Times Book Review “A work of the most humane kind of genius, bravely going right to the heart of things: why we are who we are. It's also incredibly funny. And visually stunning. And page-turningly addictive. And heartbreaking.”—Jonathan Safran Foer “Many of us are living out the unlived lives of our mothers. Alison Bechdel has written a graphic novel about this; sort of like a comic book by Virginia Woolf. You won't believe it until you read it—and you must!”—Gloria Steinem

Cenaze Evi/Şenlik Evi

un drama cómico

¿Eres mi madre?

"The success of Alison Bechdel's 'Dykes To Watch Out For' is impressive for any comic strip and unheard of for one with a lesbian theme". -- Boston Globe

Confessions, Comix, and Miscellaneous Dykes to Watch Out for

The Indelible Alison Bechdel

In the tenth book in the best-selling lesbian comic series that has become an international treasure, Mo, Clarice, Lois, Sparrow and Toni square off on questions of idealism, violence, compassion, patriotism and dissent. As they hash out their ideological differences, a black-and-white world takes on surprisingly variegated shades of grey. Syndicated worldwide and in Diva magazine, this newest addition to the series is guaranteed to take the UK lesbian community by storm.

Dykes and Sundry Other Carbon-based Life-forms to Watch Out for

Um Drama Em Quadrinhos

Voce e Minha Mae?

Fun home. Una tragicommedia familiare

familiedrama

Fun Home / druk 1

Avec "Fun Home", élu Meilleur Livre de l'Année par Time Magazine en 2006, Alison Bechdel a pris le monde par surprise. Ce récit graphique d'une fille découvrant son homosexualité à travers celle, soigneusement cachée, de son père, a franchi les frontières des communautés gay et lesbienne pour atteindre le grand public. Aujourd'hui, Alison renoue avec la verve comique et poignante de ce premier succès pour compléter son diptyque familial. C'est au personnage de sa mère qu'elle consacre "C'est toi ma maman ?" (allusion à un classique de la littérature enfantine US où un oisillon à peine sorti de l'oeuf pose cette question à un chien, une vache, une pelleteuse, un avion...). Comment se reconnaître dans cette femme ultra-féminine, artiste frustrée mariée à un gay honteux, qui a cessé de toucher et d'embrasser sa fille dès qu'elle a eu sept ans ? Une fois encore, c'est dans le lacis complexe de sa généalogie que Bechdel promène son intelligence et son ironie au laser, à la recherche des sources de son homosexualité. Comme dans le premier livre, qui convoquait Proust et Joyce, c'est autour des figures iconiques de Virgina Woolf, du psychanalyste Donald Winnicott et du célèbre Dr Seuss, que se construit cette quête tragi-comique sur la difficulté d'être l'enfant de quelqu'un et de se bâtir, envers et contre tout, une vie amoureuse harmonieuse.

un drame comique

C'est toi ma maman ?

Alison's Bechdel's cartoons are a libidinous commentary on the tsunami of lesbian erotica surging through the culture. The familiar cast of characters will keep readers laughing as their carnal mores are revealed.

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