Author-Illustrator Alison Bechdel To Deliver Paumanok Lecture at LIU
DOWNTOWN BROOKLYN — Alison Bechdel, internationally acclaimed lesbian cartoonist and New York Times best-selling author and illustrator, will deliver LIU’s annual “Starting from Paumanok” lecture on American literature and culture at the Kumble Theater for the Performing Arts on the LIU Brooklyn campus. The event will be held Thursday, Feb. 23, from 6:30 to 8 p.m.
At the age of 10, Alison Bechdel began keeping a journal, and has been assiduously archiving her own life and times with words and pictures ever since. For a quarter-century, she wrote and drew the comic strip, “Dykes to Watch Out For,” a generational chronicle considered “one of the preeminent oeuvres in the comics genre, period,” by Ms. Magazine.
She is also the author of a graphic novel, Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic, published by Houghton Mifflin in 2006. Fun Home spent two weeks on the New York Times Best Seller list. Time Magazine named it Book of the Year, calling the memoir about Bechdel’s father, “A masterpiece about two people who live in the same house but different worlds, and their mysterious debts to each other.”