Comments on: buttock champion of the world http://dykestowatchoutfor.com/buttock-champion-of-the-world News about Alison Bechdel's comic strip Dykes to Watch Out For, and her graphic novel Fun Home Wed, 08 Feb 2012 17:39:20 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=328 By: mlk http://dykestowatchoutfor.com/buttock-champion-of-the-world#comment-45973 mlk Wed, 02 May 2007 15:18:26 +0000 http://dykestowatchoutfor.com/buttock-champion-of-the-world#comment-45973 love the story behind the cover art! thanks for sharing it w/us. love the story behind the cover art! thanks for sharing it w/us.

]]> By: Aunt Soozie http://dykestowatchoutfor.com/buttock-champion-of-the-world#comment-45400 Aunt Soozie Sun, 29 Apr 2007 19:41:25 +0000 http://dykestowatchoutfor.com/buttock-champion-of-the-world#comment-45400 oh...I see... well, maybe that's what you looked like in 1998 Alison? You're taller now? The drawing has a kind of retro look or maybe a little R.Crumbishness or something...the figure's shading and the stocky build and the "unprettiness" of your self portrait. It's interesting, the combination of a large vehicle passing by on the road while you're chopping wood and the fact that it's a bus full o'kids while you're out there in the buff. Definitely resonates with Fun Home themes. oh…I see…
well, maybe that’s what you looked like in 1998 Alison? You’re taller now?

The drawing has a kind of retro look or maybe a little R.Crumbishness or something…the figure’s shading and the stocky build and the “unprettiness” of your self portrait.

It’s interesting, the combination of a large vehicle passing by on the road while you’re chopping wood and the fact that it’s a bus full o’kids while you’re out there in the buff. Definitely resonates with Fun Home themes.

]]> By: Deb http://dykestowatchoutfor.com/buttock-champion-of-the-world#comment-45208 Deb Sun, 29 Apr 2007 04:54:49 +0000 http://dykestowatchoutfor.com/buttock-champion-of-the-world#comment-45208 I love that cover and what perfect timing! Hey, I was too slow on the uptake, but I would have had them all correct as well! I love that cover and what perfect timing! Hey, I was too slow on the uptake, but I would have had them all correct as well!

]]> By: --MC http://dykestowatchoutfor.com/buttock-champion-of-the-world#comment-45027 --MC Sat, 28 Apr 2007 16:45:21 +0000 http://dykestowatchoutfor.com/buttock-champion-of-the-world#comment-45027 Am looking forward to seeing if the Journal cover brings with it any controversy. I remember there was a bit of a stir a couple years back when James Sturm was interviewed, and did a cover of himself teaching a comics class in the nude. Then also, people who get upset about this sort of thing tend to go off most strongly when it's full frontal male, and three-quarters closed female might not be as objectionable to them. (If memory functions, you might be the first female cartoonist, and the second one in all, to self-portrait in the buff on the Journal cover, Alison.) Am looking forward to seeing if the Journal cover brings with it any controversy. I remember there was a bit of a stir a couple years back when James Sturm was interviewed, and did a cover of himself teaching a comics class in the nude. Then also, people who get upset about this sort of thing tend to go off most strongly when it’s full frontal male, and three-quarters closed female might not be as objectionable to them. (If memory functions, you might be the first female cartoonist, and the second one in all, to self-portrait in the buff on the Journal cover, Alison.)

]]> By: Jaibe http://dykestowatchoutfor.com/buttock-champion-of-the-world#comment-44957 Jaibe Sat, 28 Apr 2007 10:49:21 +0000 http://dykestowatchoutfor.com/buttock-champion-of-the-world#comment-44957 In what is probably a hopeless last pitch for blog diversity, I'd like to point out the cover was linked to over on the live journal pages over ten days ago: http://community.livejournal.com/dykes2watchout4/ In what is probably a hopeless last pitch for blog diversity, I’d like to point out the cover was linked to over on the live journal pages over ten days ago:

http://community.livejournal.com/dykes2watchout4/

]]> By: louise http://dykestowatchoutfor.com/buttock-champion-of-the-world#comment-44867 louise Sat, 28 Apr 2007 05:03:05 +0000 http://dykestowatchoutfor.com/buttock-champion-of-the-world#comment-44867 thank you for linking to that Slate piece. it is wonderful. thank you for linking to that Slate piece. it is wonderful.

]]> By: AK http://dykestowatchoutfor.com/buttock-champion-of-the-world#comment-44864 AK Sat, 28 Apr 2007 04:53:54 +0000 http://dykestowatchoutfor.com/buttock-champion-of-the-world#comment-44864 Yup, the digital magazines run together in my brain. Seeing that drawing reminds me of Rachel Maddow talking about the pleasures of chopping your own firewood -- backyard lumberjacking. Yup, the digital magazines run together in my brain. Seeing that drawing reminds me of Rachel Maddow talking about the pleasures of chopping your own firewood — backyard lumberjacking.

]]> By: Alison Bechdel http://dykestowatchoutfor.com/buttock-champion-of-the-world#comment-44859 Alison Bechdel Sat, 28 Apr 2007 04:45:57 +0000 http://dykestowatchoutfor.com/buttock-champion-of-the-world#comment-44859 Yeah, thanks AK. You're right. Except it was <a href="http://www.slate.com/id/3768/entry/24918/" rel="nofollow">Slate</a>, not Salon. I didn't have time to do anything new for the CJ cover so I dug up the Slate thing from 1998 and colored it. The slender connection is, I was writing in the Slate piece about possibly beginning to write the graphic novel I'd been thinking about for years. And in retrospect, I find that the naked lumberjack image captures something about both the exposure and the sheer manual labor that writing Fun Home entailed. Yeah, thanks AK. You’re right. Except it was Slate, not Salon. I didn’t have time to do anything new for the CJ cover so I dug up the Slate thing from 1998 and colored it. The slender connection is, I was writing in the Slate piece about possibly beginning to write the graphic novel I’d been thinking about for years. And in retrospect, I find that the naked lumberjack image captures something about both the exposure and the sheer manual labor that writing Fun Home entailed.

]]> By: AK http://dykestowatchoutfor.com/buttock-champion-of-the-world#comment-44852 AK Sat, 28 Apr 2007 04:20:40 +0000 http://dykestowatchoutfor.com/buttock-champion-of-the-world#comment-44852 Aunt Soozie - I believe AB herself did the cover...but in context of an article she did for Salon a few years ago. (You might still be able to find it out there in the ether.) The basic premise was "a week in the life of..." and the "lumberjack" drawing was one of several that went with the article. Aunt Soozie – I believe AB herself did the cover…but in context of an article she did for Salon a few years ago. (You might still be able to find it out there in the ether.) The basic premise was “a week in the life of…” and the “lumberjack” drawing was one of several that went with the article.

]]> By: Jana C.H. http://dykestowatchoutfor.com/buttock-champion-of-the-world#comment-44767 Jana C.H. Fri, 27 Apr 2007 23:25:01 +0000 http://dykestowatchoutfor.com/buttock-champion-of-the-world#comment-44767 Dear Wondering, Go here: http://dykestowatchoutfor.com/some-changes and Enlightenment will be yours. This offer void where prohibited by law. Jana C.H. Seattle Saith JcH: Do whatever you like with Wagner, but mess with Gilbert and Sullivan and you die! Dear Wondering,

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