Alison BechdelSpeaker and Booking Agent Information

In the area of biography/autobiography, Alison Bechdel won a Lambda Literary Award. She's also the recipient of two Vice Versa Awards for Excellence in Gay and Lesbian Journalism. Ms., The Village Voice, The Advocate, Out, Gay Comics, and a slew of other comic books, 'zines, and anthologies have all included Bechdel's work. Her debut graphic novel is Fun Home.

Bechdel was born and raised in a small town in Pennsylvania. She relocated to New York City after graduating from Oberlin College, where she began painting Dykes to Watch Out For as a column in the feminist magazine Womanews in 1983.

Since then, nine book-length DTWOF collections have been produced, with nine of them—including Spawn of Dykes to Watch Out For and Hot, Throbbing Dykes to Watch Out For—being published by Firebrand Books, a pioneering feminist imprint. Alyson Books published the most recent volume, Invasion of the Dykes to Watch Out For, in 2005.

Her bi-weekly comic strip is syndicated in more than 50 publications. Bechdel's work has established itself as a countercultural icon.

"Here are comics for intellectuals," writes Harvey Pekar, "full of the material that masterpieces like Gasoline Alley and Doonesbury are composed of." Bechdel's work was just published in Attitude 2: The New Subversive Alternative Cartoonists, with Aaron McGruder's Boondocks and David Rees', Get Your War On (NBM, 2004).

Lambda Literary Awards for Humor have been given to four of her works, including The Indelible. In the area of biography/autobiography, Alison Bechdel won a Lambda Literary Award. DTWOF was named "one of the biggest hits of the twentieth century" by Utne magazine.

Bechdel has done exclusive work for a host of magazines, including Ms., Slate, The Village Voice, The Advocate, Out, and a slew of other newspapers, online sites, comic books, and 'zines, in addition to her comic strip. Her writing has been widely translated and anthologized. She resides in the Vermont town of Burlington.