Alison Bechdel’s Big Kiss

Alison Bechdel’s Big Kiss. Video part 1: Cartoonist Alison Bechdel interviewed by Michelle Paradise for Velvetpark, a content-rich community portal for lesbians, queers, their friends and allies.

As a young lesbian Alison wanted to see pictures of what dykes look like and she starte drawing. Other people liked her drawings, so she has been drawing cartoons since the early 1980’ies. She has her own magazine titled ‘Dykes to Watch Out For’.
In the above video cartoonist Alison Bechdel, USA, talks about her book ‘Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic’, which has a lot of intimate biographical material in it. The book was Time Magazines number one book of 2006 and got it a lot of attention.

Alison Bechdel’s Big Kiss. Video part 2. Published by Velvetpark.

Cartoonist Allison Bechdel talking about her work as a queer cartoonist and describes some the techniques, which she used when she was making the book ‘Fun Home’. She was awarded the Eisner Award at Comic Com 2007  for ‘Fun Home’.

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Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic
By Alison Bechdel
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (June 8, 2006)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0618477942
ISBN-13: 978-0618477944

Alison Bechdel’s website Dykestowatchoutfor.com
Alison’s blog with more recent stuff, thoughts about life as a lesbian, and her home videos.