艾莉森-贝赫德 漫画家和图形回忆录作家

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Alison Bechdel
Cartoonist and Graphic Memoirist | Class of 2014
Expanding the expressive potential of the graphic form in intricate narratives that explore the complexities of familial relationships.


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Title
Cartoonist and Graphic Memoirist
Location
Bolton, Vermont
Age
54 at time of award
Area of Focus
Comics and Graphic Narratives
Website
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Published September 17, 2014
ABOUT ALISON'S WORK
Alison Bechdel is a cartoonist and graphic memoirist exploring the complexities of familial relationships in multilayered works that use the interplay of word and image to weave sophisticated narratives. Bechdel’s command of sequential narrative and her aesthetic as a visual artist was established in her long-running comic strip, Dykes to Watch Out For (1983–2008), which realistically captured the lives of women in the lesbian community as they influenced and were influenced by the important cultural and political events of the day.

Garnering a devoted and diverse following, this pioneering work was a precursor to her book-length graphic memoirs. Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic (2006) is a nuanced depiction of a childhood spent in an artistic family in a small Pennsylvania town and of her relationship with her father, a high school English teacher and funeral home director. An impeccable observer and record keeper, Bechdel incorporates drawings of archival materials, such as diaries, letters, photographs, and news clippings, as well as a variety of literary references in deep reflections into her own past.

Bechdel composes an intricate, recursive narrative structure that is compelling on both the visual and verbal planes in Are You My Mother? A Comic Drama (2012), a meditation on her relationship with her emotionally distant mother seen through the lens of psychoanalytic theory. As in Fun Home, the images in Are You My Mother? do not always correspond to or illustrate the words; rather, they mutually interpret or often tug against each other, creating a space between them that invites a multiplicity of interpretations. With storytelling that is striking for its conceptual depth and complexity in structure as well as for the deft use of allusion and reference, Bechdel is changing our notions of the contemporary memoir and expanding the expressive potential of the graphic form.

BIOGRAPHY
Alison Bechdel received a B.A. (1981) from Oberlin College. She is the editor of Best American Comics (2011), and her comic strip work has been collected in numerous volumes, most recently The Essential Dykes to Watch Out For (2008). Her work has also appeared in such publications as Slate, the New York Times Book Review, McSweeney’s, Granta, and The New Yorker.



艾莉森-贝赫德
漫画家和图形回忆录作家 | 2014级
在探索家庭关系复杂性的错综复杂的叙事中，扩大图形形式的表达潜力。


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标题
漫画家和图形回忆录作者
地点
佛蒙特州博尔顿
年龄
获奖时为54岁
重点领域
漫画和图形叙事
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艾莉森-贝赫德
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发表于2014年9月17日
关于艾莉森的作品
Alison Bechdel是一位漫画家和图形回忆录作家，在多层次的作品中探索家庭关系的复杂性，利用文字和图像的相互作用来编织复杂的叙述。贝希德对连续叙事的掌控以及她作为视觉艺术家的审美在她的长期漫画《需要注意的女人》（Dykes to Watch Out For，1983-2008）中得以确立，该漫画真实地捕捉了女同性恋社区中女性的生活，因为她们影响了当时的重要文化和政治事件，也受到了影响。

这部开创性的作品赢得了一批忠实的、不同的追随者，是她长篇漫画回忆录的前身。有趣的家》。A Family Tragicomic》（2006年）细致入微地描述了她在宾夕法尼亚州一个小镇的艺术家庭中度过的童年，以及她与父亲的关系，一位高中英语教师和殡仪馆主任。作为一个无懈可击的观察者和记录者，Bechdel将日记、信件、照片和新闻剪报等档案材料的图画以及各种文学参考资料融入到对她自己的过去的深刻思考中。

Bechdel在《你是我妈妈吗？A Comic Drama》（2012年）中，通过精神分析理论的视角，对她与情感疏远的母亲的关系进行了沉思。和《欢乐家园》一样，《你是我妈妈吗》中的图像并不总是对应或说明文字；相反，它们相互解释或经常相互拉扯，在它们之间创造出一个空间，邀请人们进行多重解释。贝希德的故事因其概念上的深度和结构上的复杂性以及对典故和参照物的巧妙使用而引人注目，他正在改变我们对当代回忆录的概念，并扩大图形形式的表达潜力。

个人简历
艾莉森-贝希德尔获得了欧柏林学院的文学学士学位（1981年）。她是《最佳美国漫画》（2011年）的编辑，她的漫画作品被收集在许多书中，最近的一本是《值得注意的女同性恋者》（2008年）。她的作品还出现在《Slate》、《纽约时报书评》、《McSweeney's》、《Granta》和《The New Yorker》等出版物上。