Eight days before she was to deliver the headliner address opening Burlington’s Green Mountain Book Festival, Alison Bechdel confessed that she was still trying to get her talk together. Bechdel is ...

Help us pay for in-depth stories like this one by becoming a Seven Days Super Reader. Spent: A Comic Novel by Alison Bechdel, Mariner Books, 272 pages. $32. Credit: Courtesy The Bolton cartoonist’s ...

Gabfest Reads is a monthly series from the hosts of Slate’s Political Gabfest podcast. Recently, David Plotz talked with author Alison Bechdel about her new book, Spent. They discussed how Bechdel ...

One weekend in 1986, on a jaunt in a rented cabin with her soon-to-be-ex-lover, Alison Bechdel, a virtually unknown cartoonist in her twenties living in the Twin Cities, had an anxiety attack. The ...

No artistic border is more poorly defended or muzzily mapped than the wavy line that separates self-consciousness from self-parody. Too many of the greats stumble unintentionally across the divide, ...

Alison Bechdel's "Spent" arrives with little fanfare but considerable weight. Not because it demands to be called a masterpiece, but because it doesn't. It steps lightly, tentatively, into questions ...

Described as one of the most important graphic novelists working today, she is known for "Dykes to Watch Out For" and a famous test of gender representation in movies Alison Bechdel, an American ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The 25-year run of “Dykes to Watch Out For” followed a group of Sapphic pals and partners whose relationship and interactions ...

Why is Christian Science in our name? Our name is about honesty. The Monitor is owned by The First Church of Christ, Scientist, and we’ve always been transparent about that. The church publishes the ...