Alison Bechdel is a comics creator from Burlington, Vermont. She began keeping a journal at the age of ten, and has been assiduously archiving her own life and times with words and pictures ever since.

For twenty-five years she wrote and drew the comic strip DYKES TO WATCH OUT FOR, a generational chronicle considered “one of the preeminent oeuvres in the comics genre, period.” (Ms.)

She is also the author of the best-selling FUN HOME: A FAMILY TRAGICOMIC, which won an Eisner Award and was a National Book Critics Circle Award Finalist. TIME Magazine named Fun Home the number one Best Book of 2006, calling the memoir about her father, “A masterpiece about two people who live in the same house but different worlds, and their mysterious debts to each other.”