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Nationally syndicated comic strip artist Alison Bechdel to speak at the U of MDykes to Watch Out For creator to deliver McNaron Lecture
MINNEAPOLIS / ST. PAUL ( 2/8/2008 ) -- Nationally syndicated comic strip artist and graphic novelist Alison Bechdel will deliver the Ninth McNaron Lecture in Arts & Culture at 7 p.m. Thursday, March 6 in Cowles Auditorium at the Humphrey Institute, 301 19th Ave. S., Minneapolis. The Steven J. Schochet Endowment for GLBT Studies & Campus Life is pleased to present this lecture as part of the University of Minnesota's Steven J. Schochet Distinguished Lecture Series. This event is free and open to the public. Alison Bechdel, whose memoir Fun Home was No. 1 on TIME Magazine's 10 Best Books of 2006, is also the author of Dykes To Watch Out For (DTWOF), a comic strip syndicated in over 50 alternative newspapers and publications nation-wide. It is also available in several languages and has been collected into a book series with over 250,000 copies in print. Notably, "Madwimmin Books" in DTWOF is based on Amazon Bookstore Cooperative here in south Minneapolis, according to Barb Wieser of the cooperative. Fun Home "must be the most ingeniously compact, hyper-verbose example of autobiography to have been produced," said the New York Times. The New York Times also hailed Fun Home as a "pioneering work, pushing two genres (comics and memoir) in multiple new directions, with panels that combine the detail and technical proficiency of R. Crumb with a seriousness, emotional complexity and innovation completely its own," enabling the "magic of the graphic format" to shine through. Bechdel was a St. Paul resident in the late eighties. "It is odd to be at a party with Alison, and later find some ridiculous thing you've said come out of the mouth of one of her characters," said Linnea Stenson, dean of Academic Affairs at the Minneapolis Community and Technical College. Stenson was a program director of the former Schochet Center at the University of Minnesota. This lecture is named after Toni McNaron, Professor Emeritus of English at the University of Minnesota and multiple award winning teacher and scholar who has worked with graduate and undergraduate students for more than 35 years at the University of Minnesota. Following the lecture, the University of Minnesota's Office for University Women invites members of the public to a reception for Alison Bechdel and book signing. ---------- |
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