Alison Bechdel

Alison Bechdel (/ˈbɛkdəl/ BEK-dəl; born September 10, 1960) is an American cartoonist. She created the comic strip about gay women called Dykes to Watch Out For. She also created a graphic novel Fun Home.The book also became a musical that won a Tony Award in 2015. In 2012, she published her second graphic book Are You My Mother? She won the MacArthur "Genius" Award.  

 Awards 

 Time Magazine listed Fun Home as one of its 10 Best Books of the Year for 2006
 Eisner Award for Best Reality-Based Work in 2007
 A MacArthur Fellowship in 2014.
 Lambda Board of Trustees Award for Excellence in Literature in 2014.
 Harvey Awards 2019 Hall of Fame.

References

Category:1960 births
Category:Living people
Category:American cartoonists