Graphic novelist Alison Bechdel appears as part of the Penny Stamps speaker series. Bechdel, author of Are You My Mother? A Comic Drama, Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic and the comic strip Dykes To Watch Out For, is relentlesly truthful and funny in her works. She’s explored what it’s like to be a closeted gay, married male via the story of her father and the travails of pre-feminist life in America through her mother.

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