Alison Bechdel Knihy

Alison Bechdelová (dosud známá svým kresleným seriálem Dykes to Watch Out For) shromáždila obrázky, které si malovala od sedmé třídy, deníky, které si psala od deseti let, mapy jednoho malého městečka v Pennsylvánii, staré papírky se seznamy nákupů, fotky, dopisy, vstupenky, a od matky dostala krabici dopisů po otci. Za nejméně přesný materiál považuje svoje vzpomínky. Několik let pracovala jako při terapii na svém knižním debutu: rodinné tragikomedii o svém úzkém, ale složitém vztahu s otcem. Kdybych si ten příběh měla vymyslet jako spisovatelka, nestál by za nic, tvrdí Bechdelová. Přesto vzniklo vzácně komplexní literární dílko, které zaujme jak svými ilustracemi, tak doprovodným textem.

Alison Bechdelová (v češtině už vyšel její grafický román Rodinný ústav, Argo 2008) kreslí od roku 1983 do současnosti komiksový seriál ze života několika amerických leseb. Jednotlivé díly vycházely v mnoha časopisech, byly přeloženy do několika jazyků a vydaly na desítky knih (naposledy mohutný výbor The Essential Dykes to Watch out for, 2008). Nyní máte v rukou výběr z dílů poprvé publikovaných v letech 1987–1992, ve kterých se seznámíte s hrdinkami Mo, Lois, Toni a Clarice, Ginger a dalšími. K nim přidáváme nadčasový kreslený příběh nazvaný Sériová monogamie.

From the author of Fun Home -- the lives, loves, and politics of cult fav characters Mo, Lois, Sydney, Sparrow, Ginger, Stuart, Clarice, and others For twenty-five years Bechdel?s path-breaking Dykes to Watch Out For strip has been collected in award-winning volumes (with a quarter of a million copies in print), syndicated in fifty alternative newspapers, and translated into many languages. Now, at last, The Essential Dykes to Watch Out For gathers a rich, funny, deep and impossible to put down? (Publishers Weekly) selection from all eleven Dykes volumes. Here too are sixty of the newest strips, never before published in book form. Settle in to this wittily illustrated soap opera (Bechdel calls it half op-ed column and half endless serialized Victorian novel?) of the lives, loves, and politics of a cast of characters, most of them lesbian, living in a midsize American city that may or may not be Minneapolis. Her brilliantly imagined countercultural band of friends -- academics, social workers, bookstore clerks -- fall in and out of love, negotiate friendships, raise children, switch careers, and cope with aging parents. Bechdel fuses high and low culture -- from foreign policy to domestic routine, hot sex to postmodern theory -- in a serial graphic narrative suitable for humanists of all persuasions.?

In 1981, two Mexican-American brothers self-published "Love and Rockets," which transformed American cartooning. The comic features female protagonists depicted with humor and realism, set against the backdrop of California's Mexican-American culture and punk scene.

Alison Bechdel's sixth sordid collection, her candid cartoon expose of contemporary lesbian life. Ancient lesbian history is revealed as we flash back to the beginnings of the passions no man could share.

From the author of Fun Home, a profound graphic memoir of Bechdel's lifelong love affair with exercise, set against a hilarious chronicle of fitness fads in our times Comics and cultural superstar Alison Bechdel delivers a deeply layered story of her fascination, from childhood to adulthood, with every fitness craze to come down the pike: from Jack LaLanne in the 60s ("Outlandish jumpsuit! Cantaloupe-sized guns!") to the existential oddness of present-day spin class. Readers will see their athletic or semi-active pasts flash before their eyes through an ever-evolving panoply of running shoes, bicycles, skis, and sundry other gear. But the more Bechdel tries to improve herself, the more her self appears to be the thing in her way. She turns for enlightenment to Eastern philosophers and literary figures, including Beat writer Jack Kerouac, whose search for self-transcendence in the great outdoors appears in moving conversation with the author’s own. This gifted artist and not-getting-any-younger exerciser comes to a soulful conclusion. The secret to superhuman strength lies not in six-pack abs, but in something much less clearly defined: facing her own non-transcendent but all-important interdependence with others. A heartrendingly comic chronicle for our times.

DISCOVER the BESTSELLING GRAPHIC MEMOIR behind the 2019 Olivier Award nominated musical. 'A sapphic graphic treat' The TimesA moving and darkly humorous family tale, pitch-perfectly illustrated with Alison Bechdel's gothic drawings.

Depicts the author's mother as a voracious reader, music lover, and passionate amateur actress who quietly suffers as the wife of a closeted gay artist and withdraws from her young daughter, who searches for answers to the separation later in life.

From the bestselling author of "Fun Home," a poignant and hilarious graphic memoir of Bechdel becoming the artist her gifted mother always wanted to be.

A graphic novel follow-up to Fun Home depicts the author's mother as a voracious reader, music lover and passionate amateur actress who quietly suffers as the wife of a closeted gay artist and withdraws from her young daughter.