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Alison Bechdel: An Analysis

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Alison Bechdel is a cartoonist responsible for the 25-year-running comic strip Dykes to Watch Out For, her two widely acclaimed graphic novels, and the origination for the internationally-known Bechdel Test. In addition to this, she has my boundless love and admiration. Fun Home, her graphic memoir she proclaimed as “a family tragicomic,” spent two weeks on the New York Times bestseller list, was named Time Magazine’s number one book of the year 2006, and was recently adapted into a Broadway musical that now holds the 2015 Tony Award for Best Musical. I cannot even attempt to describe why these books are so exceptional, yet I can try to describe why they are to me. In communities of minorities, “representation is important” has become somewhat

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