Cartoonist and graphic novelist known for works like Fun Home and Are You My Mother, whose name became associated with the Bechdel Test despite her primary focus on formalist artistic concerns
"In another world, Bechdel's comics (the long-form ones like *Fun House* and *Are You My Mother?*) would have been lauded by anyone of any political persuasion. For anyone who even likes comics a little bit, their meditations on familial relations and growing up stand up there with *Maus* and *Perspe"