Author Description

If you have spent a long time resisting the status quo whether it s in art, society, or the political world what happens when that status quo at last gives way? A universe of possibility opens up. Alison Bechdel, from the Introduction Featuring: Gabrielle Bell, Joe Sacco, Dash Shaw, Sabrina Jones, Chris Ware, Jillian Tamaki, Jaime Hernandez, Jeff Smith, Paul Pope, Kevin Huizenga, and others ALISON BECHDEL began drawing the comic strip Dykes to Watch Out For in 1983. She is also the author of the best-selling graphic memoir Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic, which was named a Best Book of the Year by Time, Entertainment Weekly, the New York Times, People, USA Today, the Los Angeles Times, the Village Voice, and the San Francisco Chronicle, among others. Her second graphic memoir, Are You My Mother?, will be out next year. JESSICA ABEL is the author of the graphic novel La Perdida as well as two collections of stories and drawings from her series Artbabe. MATT MADDEN is the author of 99 Ways to Tell a Story: Exercises in Style. Together they are the authors of Drawing Words & Writing Pictures. "