COMIC ARTIST

Alison Bechdel

1960 - Today

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Alison Bechdel ( BEK-dəl; born September 10, 1960) is an American cartoonist. Originally known for the long-running comic strip Dykes to Watch Out For, she came to critical and commercial success in 2006 with her graphic memoir Fun Home. Fun Home was subsequently adapted as a musical, which won a Tony Award for Best Musical in 2015. In 2012, she released her second graphic memoir Are You My Mother? Read more on Wikipedia

Her biography is available in 30 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 29 in 2024). Alison Bechdel is the 166th most popular comic artist (up from 168th in 2024), the 11,694th most popular biography from United States (down from 10,832nd in 2019) and the 40th most popular American Comic Artist.

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Among COMIC ARTISTS

Among comic artists, Alison Bechdel ranks 166 out of 226. Before her are Inio Asano, Mort Walker, Yoshitoshi ABe, Marv Wolfman, Oh! great, and Jim Starlin. After her are Peter David, Tooru Fujisawa, Jules Feiffer, Bill Watterson, Yuu Watase, and Atsushi Ohkubo.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1960, Alison Bechdel ranks 500. Before her are Marco Albarello, Bjørg Eva Jensen, Juan Simón, Scott Baio, Alexander Bashlachev, and Peter Hambleton. After her are Lisa Martin, Thomas Lubanga Dyilo, Yuri Shargin, Emir Mutapčić, Thierry Vigneron, and Ivans Klementjevs.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Alison Bechdel ranks 11,696 out of 20,380. Before her are Serena Auñón-Chancellor (1976), Hasan Minhaj (1985), Simon Rex (1974), Earl Young (1941), Ron Cephas Jones (1957), and Evan McMullin (1976). After her are Megan Boone (1983), Horace Ashenfelter (1923), Mark Coleman (1964), Austin Pendleton (1940), Bob Avakian (1943), and Irwin M. Jacobs (1933).

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Among COMIC ARTISTS In United States

Among comic artists born in United States, Alison Bechdel ranks 40. Before her are Harvey Kurtzman (1924), Neal Adams (1941), Mike Mignola (1960), Mort Walker (1923), Marv Wolfman (1946), and Jim Starlin (1949). After her are Peter David (1956), Jules Feiffer (1929), Bill Watterson (1958), Harvey Pekar (1939), Robert Kirkman (1978), and Len Wein (1948).

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