Alison Bechdel « The Hooded Utilitarian

October 24, 2012
By Kailyn Kent
Blog, Featured
34 comments

What’s In the Wonder Box

Uninspired gimmickry in Chris Ware’s Building Stories

Voices from the Archive: Melinda Beasi on the Bechdel Test and Nana

The value of imperfect heroines

June 27, 2012
By Connor Delaney
Blog, Comics Criticism 101, Top Featured
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Seeing the Big Picture: The Use of Composition in Comics

Composition in Alison Bechdel’s Fun Home

Voices from the Archive: Alison Bechdel on <i>Fun Home</i>

Voices from the Archive: Alison Bechdel on Fun Home

Alison Bechdel responds briefly to HU critics.

The Therapeutic Narcissism of Alison Bechdel’s <i>Are You My Mother?</i>

May 21, 2012
By Ng Suat Tong
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The Therapeutic Narcissism of Alison Bechdel’s Are You My Mother?

Concerning the self-analysis of Alison Bechdel.

October 3, 2010
By Erica Friedman
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Me, Mo and Alison The Bechdel Test. A thought exercise that consists of a series of three criteria applied to media. Does the media have: 1) More than one woman Do they: 2) talk to each other 3) about something other than a man It’s pretty well-documented that Hollywood movies fail miserably at even these [...]

March 1, 2010
By Noah Berlatsky
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20 comments

The Price of the Ticket

In the comments to Suat’s post on Fun Home, Uland notes; The milkman bit is interesting, but I think it bears pointing out that a literary allusion isn’t an allusion at all if it’s being pointed out in the text. It’s a reference. It isn’t that I have a problem with the drawing or the [...]