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10 Mar A Short History of Alison Bechdel’s Iconic Career (in Comics)

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Peruse some major milestones in the career of cartoonist & graphic novelist Alison Bechdel—through comics, of course!

1983

Bechdel’s now-iconic comic strip Dykes to Watch Out For is first published and will run for the next 25 years.

DTWOF is the first major lesbian comic publication and is monumentous in the LGBTQIA+ community, eventually winning a Ferro-Grumley Award for LGBT fiction.

The witty column reflects on current events, political issues, sexuality, and relationships.

“One Enchanted Evening” is the first DTWOF comic ever published. Many of the strips are now archived on Bechdel’s website, and compiled in the book The Essential Dykes to Watch Out For.

1985

In a 1985 DTWOF comic called “The Test,” one of Bechdel’s characters explains a rule she has for watching movies: she will not watch a movie that doesn’t feature at least two women, who must also talk about a subject other than a man. The wittiscm reflects the reality of film & media, where female characters are underrepresented and given male-centric dialogues.

The Bechdel test becomes a feminist academic term taught across universities

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On September 10, 1960, Alison Bechdel was born to Bruce and Helen Bechdel in Lock Haven, Pennsylvania. Less than ten miles away, Beech Creek, Pennsylvania, was her home for most of her childhood. Bechdel rejected stereotypical "girl" behavior by keeping her hair short and playing among boys. She also spent much of her time with her brothers, one older and one younger, helping her father, an antiques collector, by gathering antiques to restore their 4,000-square-foot, Gothic Revival mansion to its original 1880s form. Her father was a funeral home director, and he used another nearby house in town as the funeral home, which Bechdel and her brothers aptly, yet ironically, named "Fun Home." Her mother was an actress and taught English literature at their local high school, just as her father did.

Bechdel began drawing at the age of three, and she still has the drawings to prove it. The evolution of her drawings can be found in The Indelible Alison Bechdel: Confessions, Comix, and Miscellaneous Dykes to Watch Out For (1998). In this semi-autobiographical work, she states, "I spent the better part of my childhood holed up in makeshift offices that I would construct around the house, drawing under a high-intensity lamp, refining my technique on reams and reams of typing paper."