Alison Bechdel, Comic Strip Creator of "Dykes to Watch Out For" discusses "Fun Home"

Fall for the Book Festival

Past Event

Monday, September 20, 2010 12:30 PM EDT
Johnson Center, Dewberry Hall

Alison Bechdel, the lesbian author and artist behind the acclaimed syndicated comic strip "Dykes to Watch Out For," will discuss speak at Mason's Fall for the Book Festival. Bechdel will discuss her graphic memoir Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic, described by The New York Times as a "pioneering work, push two genres (comics and memoir) in multiple new directions" and "a comic book for lovers of words."

Reception immediately following in Women and Gender Studies Center, Johnson Center, Room 240K

Sponsored by the George Mason University Lesbian, Bisexual, Transgender, Queer/Questioning Resources and the School of Art.

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