Alison Bechdel

Alison Bechdel is an American cartoonist, born in 1960, who first drew the comic strip Dykes to Watch Out For. She turned to autobiography with Fun Home, a graphic memoir from 2006 about growing up in a funeral home, which was later adapted into a musical that won the Tony Award for Best Musical in 2015. Her second graphic memoir, Are You My Mother?, followed in 2012, and she also wrote The Secret to Superhuman Strength. Bechdel received a MacArthur "Genius" Award in 2014 and is known for originating the Bechdel test.