Alison Bechdelâs Latest Offers Familiar Pleasures in Brighter Colors
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Early in her career, Alison Bechdel, then a cult cartoonist â âat the pinnacle of my bitterness,â she would later say â was invited to contribute to a special gay pride issue of Seattleâs alternative newspaper The Stranger. She fired off a comic strip titled âOppressed Minority Cartoonist.â She drew herself at her desk, flanked by a bottle of Scotch, mid-tirade. Why had her work been pigeonholed? And why had she complied so willingly, chronicling only lesbians, her âoppressed minority groupâ? In the last panel, her rant is interrupted by a phone call inviting her to contribute to that very gay pride issue. âIâd be honored,â she capitulates.