![]() Her graphic memoir, Fun Home, was about her closeted father’s suicide, and later became a Tony award-winning musical it’s been optioned for film starring Jake Gyllenhaal. From 1983 to 2008 she wrote and drew the serialized comic Dykes to Watch Out For. And though her labour and expertise have brought her many great rewards, she struggles with ambivalence: Are the comics good enough? And what’s the point of physical fitness if we’re all going to die anyway?īechdel’s comics once belonged to queer women, but over time her audience grew larger and more diverse. For cartoonist Alison Bechdel, making comics and pursuing physical exercise have many parallels: obsessive hard work, repetition and advancement, physical and mental stamina and bodily damage.īoth her passions require specialized and fetishized equipment, and she usually performs them alone. ![]()
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