What the Hell Happened to Alison Bechdel?

(Image copyright Alison Bechdel / Houghton Mifflin Harcourt)

I used to love Alison Bechdel. And why not? Bechdel is a genius in terms of graphic novel storytelling.

I don’t use the word “genius” lightly.

Bechdel is a genius.

Bechdel is considered a Founding Mother of LGBT cartoonists. She started drawing cartoons specifically catering to a lesbian audience way back in the late eighties (the 1980s…