Courtesy of Alison Bechdel
Alison Bechdel
Alison Bechdel, the Bolton cartoonist best known for her long-running comic strip "
Dykes to Watch Out For," will deliver the
Will Eisner Spring Lecture for the
Center for Cartoon Studies on April 10. The lecture will take place not at the CCS' campus in White River Junction but at nearby Dartmouth College.
Bechdel, who discontinued "Dykes"
in 2008, received tremendous acclaim for her illustrated memoir
Fun Home, which was later turned into an
off-Broadway musical that ended its run in January at New York City's Public Theater.
Bechdel followed that book with 2012's
Are You My Mother? A Comic Drama. That was the same year she won a Guggenheim Fellowship and a Bill Whitehead Award for Lifetime Achievement from Publishing Triangle, an organization devoted to LGBT people in the book industry. She also was profiled in the
New Yorker.
2013's Eisner lecture was presented by cartoonist and comics historian
Scott McCloud.
Alison Bechdel speaks on Thursday, April 10, at 4:30 p.m. in Room 100 of the Life Sciences Building at Dartmouth College, Hanover, N.H.