Installation view, ‘Dykes, Dads, and Moms to Watch Out For: The Comics of Alison Bechdel’ at the UM Institute for the Humanities Gallery (all photos by Sarah Nesbitt, courtesy the UM Institute for the ...

Nigel Harman can’t wait to bring Fun Home to audiences at Manchester Royal Exchange.

Alison Bechdel wove herself into the fabric of lesbian cultural identity when she started publishing her comic strip “Dykes to Watch Out For” in Minneapolis back in 1983. CATHY WURZER: You may have ...

Before she was the reluctant namesake of the ubiquitous Bechdel Test, Alison Bechdel wrote the great “family tragicomic,” Fun Home, about her father’s suicide and her family’s repression. In 2012, she ...

Mid-sentence, Alison Bechdel stops herself, laughing. “I’m sorry,” she says, “I keep speaking so effusively, but it’s really exciting. I never dreamed this level of talent would get brought to this ...

Fun Home resonated with readers as a work of nuance, honesty and intelligence. Within just a few years, playwright Lisa Kron and composer Jeanine Tesori set about adapting it to the stage, which was ...