Alison Bechdel
Alison Bechdel’s cult following for her early comic strip Dykes to Watch Out For expanded wildly for her family memoirs, the New York Times bestselling and Time magazine #1 Book of the Year graphic memoir Fun Home, adapted into a Tony Award–winning musical, and Are You My Mother? The Secret to Superman Strength was named a New York Times Best Graphic Novel of 2021.
Alison Bechdel’s cult following for her early comic strip Dykes to Watch Out For expanded wildly for her family memoirs, the New York Times bestselling and Time magazine #1 Book of the Year graphic memoir Fun Home, adapted into a Tony Award–winning musical, and Are You My Mother? The Secret to Superman Strength was named a New York Times Best Graphic Novel of 2021. It is now followed by the recently published Spent: A Comic Novel. Among her many other honors, she has been a MacArthur Fellow.
As of October 2025.