“Cartoonist Alison Bechdel's first extended work, Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic, is a staggeringly literate and revealing autobiography.
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May 13th, 2008 | Other Projects

Thanks, everyone, for your very sweet support for my decision to suspend DTWOF for a while. Well, that seems to be the preponderance of opinion so far—I haven’t read all the comments closely because I’m working hard to Read the rest of this entry »

winds of change

May 10th, 2008 | Other Projects, Sketch Diary

In amidst the recent strands about Bob Dylan’s and Joan Baez’s relationship, knitting and drinking, the etymology of “shambolic,” and self-inflicted haircuts, there’s been an insistent thread about fan-fic. As well as actual submissions of it–another one just in, see below. Read the rest of this entry »

well I’ll be damned

May 8th, 2008 | Oddments, Sketch Diary

mothersdayDTWOF closeup

People took the substitute cartoonist thing very seriously! Here’s an amazing submission by Iara. She revived Raffi’s old daycare provider, who appeared once, in 1997, and aged her perfectly! Read the rest of this entry »