Comments on: Women and Children First, Chicago http://dykestowatchoutfor.com/women-and-children-first-chicago News about Alison Bechdel's comic strip Dykes to Watch Out For, and her graphic novel Fun Home Sun, 21 Mar 2010 05:07:10 -0400 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.5 hourly 1 By: mlk http://dykestowatchoutfor.com/women-and-children-first-chicago#comment-1793 mlk Wed, 12 Jul 2006 21:35:58 +0000 http://dykestowatchoutfor.com/women-and-children-first-chicago#comment-1793 it was wonderful meeting you in Chicago! from your last comment on this entry, it must be good to be home. do you ever get a break?!??!? here's to a few moments of solitude and a chance to catch your breath. or some QT with your sweetie. anything that will help you bridge the gap between the virtual and actual worlds! it was wonderful meeting you in Chicago! from your last comment on this entry, it must be good to be home. do you ever get a break?!??!? here’s to a few moments of solitude and a chance to catch your breath. or some QT with your sweetie. anything that will help you bridge the gap between the virtual and actual worlds!

]]> By: tania http://dykestowatchoutfor.com/women-and-children-first-chicago#comment-1788 tania Wed, 12 Jul 2006 06:15:11 +0000 http://dykestowatchoutfor.com/women-and-children-first-chicago#comment-1788 nicole hollander looks exactly as i hoped she would! nicole hollander looks exactly as i hoped she would!

]]> By: Sara http://dykestowatchoutfor.com/women-and-children-first-chicago#comment-1773 Sara Tue, 11 Jul 2006 04:09:58 +0000 http://dykestowatchoutfor.com/women-and-children-first-chicago#comment-1773 I wish I could have made it to Chicago on Sunday evening. I read your strip religiously when I was starting to come to terms with being gay in a small central Illinois town years ago (and southern Illinois can make Alabama and Mississippi look very, very liberal). Those strips meant a lot to me! I hope you return to the midwest at some point on a more relaxed schedule. Keep up the great (art)work! I wish I could have made it to Chicago on Sunday evening. I read your strip religiously when I was starting to come to terms with being gay in a small central Illinois town years ago (and southern Illinois can make Alabama and Mississippi look very, very liberal). Those strips meant a lot to me! I hope you return to the midwest at some point on a more relaxed schedule. Keep up the great (art)work!

]]> By: Aunt Soozie http://dykestowatchoutfor.com/women-and-children-first-chicago#comment-1769 Aunt Soozie Mon, 10 Jul 2006 21:42:34 +0000 http://dykestowatchoutfor.com/women-and-children-first-chicago#comment-1769 Nicole Hollander makes paper sculpture too? Are she and Phranc dating? Cause I thought that I read that somewhere. Is Riva Lehrer's painting an altered self-portrait? Pretty intense piece of work...and that foreshortening makes me shudder. I remember Freshman drawing seminar... ugh...did anyone else have to learn how to trammel elipses while studying perspective drawing? Alison, I love; that photo of you climbing up the museum... at first I thought, photoshop...and then, nah, that's Alison climbing up the museum for real... And your drawing of Nemo falling outta the drawing and your facial expression... and analog people... I knew from reading dtwof that you were tremendously funny but you seem a bit shy in person...soft spoken, thoughtful... are you always so wildly silly when you get warmed up? or just giddy with circumstance? Nicole Hollander makes paper sculpture too? Are she and Phranc dating? Cause I thought that I read that somewhere.

Is Riva Lehrer’s painting an altered self-portrait? Pretty intense piece of work…and that foreshortening makes me shudder. I remember Freshman drawing seminar… ugh…did anyone else have to learn how to trammel elipses while studying perspective drawing?

Alison, I love;
that photo of you climbing up the museum…
at first I thought, photoshop…and then, nah, that’s Alison climbing up the museum for real…
And your drawing of Nemo falling outta the drawing and your facial expression…
and analog people…

I knew from reading dtwof that you were tremendously funny but you seem a bit shy in person…soft spoken, thoughtful… are you always so wildly silly when you get warmed up? or just giddy with circumstance?

]]> By: Elizabeth Flora http://dykestowatchoutfor.com/women-and-children-first-chicago#comment-1766 Elizabeth Flora Mon, 10 Jul 2006 20:11:15 +0000 http://dykestowatchoutfor.com/women-and-children-first-chicago#comment-1766 Wonderful to know you hang with two heavy weights in Disability Studies: Eli Clare and Riva Leher. You should ask Eli if he could loan you a copy of Cameron Mitchell's 2001 comix based on the _Maus_ aesthetic regarding a "family" trip to the gas chambers in Germany with his parents, amazing University of Chicago academes, David Mitchell and Sharon Snyder. My own efforts in this exciting field culminated back in the day with an undergraduate honors thesis, "Reflections at the Gene Pool: Literary Genealogies and Genetic Legacies in Katharine Dunn's _Geek Love_." Wonderful to know you hang with two heavy weights in Disability Studies: Eli Clare and Riva Leher. You should ask Eli if he could loan you a copy of Cameron Mitchell’s 2001 comix based on the _Maus_ aesthetic regarding a “family” trip to the gas chambers in Germany with his parents, amazing University of Chicago academes, David Mitchell and Sharon Snyder. My own efforts in this exciting field culminated back in the day with an undergraduate honors thesis, “Reflections at the Gene Pool: Literary Genealogies and Genetic Legacies in Katharine Dunn’s _Geek Love_.”

]]> By: Jaibe http://dykestowatchoutfor.com/women-and-children-first-chicago#comment-1765 Jaibe Mon, 10 Jul 2006 19:56:01 +0000 http://dykestowatchoutfor.com/women-and-children-first-chicago#comment-1765 I take that back -- I hadn't cruised her home site for a while & have found a link to a better source for Sylvia now there, http://www.comicspage.com/sylvia/ hurrah! I take that back — I hadn’t cruised her home site for a while & have found a link to a better source for Sylvia now there, http://www.comicspage.com/sylvia/ hurrah!

]]> By: Jaibe http://dykestowatchoutfor.com/women-and-children-first-chicago#comment-1764 Jaibe Mon, 10 Jul 2006 19:52:01 +0000 http://dykestowatchoutfor.com/women-and-children-first-chicago#comment-1764 It is so cool you know Nicole Hollander!! Though honestly I have recently given up reading her comic because the site is such a mess & I'm so busy. You really make me miss Chicago (& Madison & Milwaukee...) It is so cool you know Nicole Hollander!! Though honestly I have recently given up reading her comic because the site is such a mess & I’m so busy. You really make me miss Chicago (& Madison & Milwaukee…)

]]> By: Ammie http://dykestowatchoutfor.com/women-and-children-first-chicago#comment-1763 Ammie Mon, 10 Jul 2006 17:28:45 +0000 http://dykestowatchoutfor.com/women-and-children-first-chicago#comment-1763 I loved your reading yesterday, and I'm so grateful that you were able to come to the midwest after all :) Hearing you talk about how you work has made me appreciate it all the more. Thank you! I loved your reading yesterday, and I’m so grateful that you were able to come to the midwest after all :) Hearing you talk about how you work has made me appreciate it all the more. Thank you!

]]> By: Deb http://dykestowatchoutfor.com/women-and-children-first-chicago#comment-1761 Deb Mon, 10 Jul 2006 16:57:29 +0000 http://dykestowatchoutfor.com/women-and-children-first-chicago#comment-1761 I have soooooooo enjoyed this blog and watching you travel around the country. How nice that you get a chance to meet some of the people that are blogging as well. How cool is it to be able to travel from women's book store to book store and meet so many interesting and vibrant people who love your work? The pix are great! I have soooooooo enjoyed this blog and watching you travel around the country. How nice that you get a chance to meet some of the people that are blogging as well. How cool is it to be able to travel from women’s book store to book store and meet so many interesting and vibrant people who love your work? The pix are great!

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