Comments on: Alison Bechdel

By: annoying blonde romantic tropes, part I: a Bechdel primer | The Real Housewife of Wilton Manors

Fri, 18 May 2012 16:56:42 +0000

[...] little if you don’t want to click an outside link. The Bechdel Test was born of a comic by Alison Bechdel, and is referred to as a counter-cultural institution. The particular strip portrays a lesbian [...]

By: Toronto Comic Arts Festival This Weekend!

Toronto Comic Arts Festival This Weekend! — Sat, 05 May 2012 17:05:54 +0000

[...] Alison Bechdel, creator of Dykes to Watch Out For and the Bechdel Test for movies (Does the movie have two named women in it? Who talk to each other? About some topic other than a man?) [...]

By: blogUT | University of Toronto Blog » Blog Archive » School’s Out for about 1/8th of the Summer

Mon, 30 Apr 2012 15:38:17 +0000

[...] recommend heading to TCAF instead to bask in the genius emanating from graphic novelist Alison Bechdel. TCAF runs until Sunday but many headlining exhibitors and special guests, including Bechdel, will [...]

By: The 2012 Oscars and The Bechdel Test | Client Site

The 2012 Oscars and The Bechdel Test | Client Site — Sun, 04 Mar 2012 21:40:22 +0000

[...] a look at women’s roles in film in 2011 by applying the “Bechdel Test.” Created in 1985 by Alison Bechdel in her comic strip Dykes to Watch Out For, the Bechdel Test is a simple way to gauge the active [...]

By: Interview with Alison Bechdel | The Doctor What

Interview with Alison Bechdel | The Doctor What — Thu, 16 Feb 2012 22:42:28 +0000

[...] found the a video of an interview with Alison Bechdel a really good comic artist. I loved her autobiographical book Fun Home. The story was engaging and [...]

By: Q & A 19: What is your favorite geographical place in comics? at Fantastic Fangirls: Comics and Culture

Thu, 19 Feb 2009 14:55:25 +0000

[...] doesn’t have a name, though Alison Bechdel has said repeatedly that it is based somewhat on Minneapolis, MN. It’s just the City, the [...]

By: The Word Nerd: Book Events, Nov 7-12 | San Francisco Metblogs

The Word Nerd: Book Events, Nov 7-12 | San Francisco Metblogs — Fri, 07 Nov 2008 21:14:02 +0000

[...] November 10th has its own slate of literary events to watch out for, including Alison Bechdel (author of Dykes to Watch Out For) at the Booksmith on Haight at 7:30 [...]

By: the memoir as graphic novel | writingfortheweb_friday

the memoir as graphic novel | writingfortheweb_friday — Fri, 05 Sep 2008 00:54:50 +0000

[...] For another poignant, intelligent and witty graphic memoir have a squizz at Fun Home by Alison Bechdel. Stunning, stunning, stunning. A well-established comic artist (she’s been doing Dykes To Watch Out For, a widely-syndicated strip, since the 80s ) Bechdel takes us back to her remarkable mid-American-gothic childhood. with such mastery and fluency, both of image and story, it makes you gasp. In the acknowledgments she thanks her family for not trying to stop her writing this book. http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2006/oct/16/biography.oliverburkeman – 86k – Fun House is simply one of the best-ever reads. Full stop. Period (as they so quaintly say in the States). Published by http://www.houghtonmifflinbooks.com [...]

By: Why film schools teach screenwriters not to pass the Bechdel test | the Hathor Legacy

Tue, 19 Aug 2008 02:16:24 +0000

[...] The “Dykes to Watch Out For” test, formerly coined as the “Mo Movie Measure” test and Bechdel Test, was named for the comic strip it came from, penned by Alison Bechdel – but Bechdel credits a friend named Liz Wallace, so maybe it really should be called the Liz Wallace Test…? Anyway, the test is much simpler than the name. To pass it your movie must have the following: 1) there are at least two named female characters, who [...]

By: Intellectual Freedom Fighters » Blog Archive » Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic

Tue, 31 Oct 2006 11:40:13 +0000

[...] by Alison Bechdel [...]