{"id":81,"date":"2006-09-07T13:02:28","date_gmt":"2006-09-07T18:02:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.edrants.com\/segundo\/?p=81"},"modified":"2010-12-04T16:51:15","modified_gmt":"2010-12-04T21:51:15","slug":"bss-63-alison-bechdel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.edrants.com\/segundo\/bss-63-alison-bechdel\/","title":{"rendered":"Alison Bechdel (BSS #63)"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Author:<\/b> Alison Bechdel<\/a><\/p>\n

Condition of Mr. Segundo:<\/b> Revealing his political idiosyncracies.<\/p>\n

Subjects Discussed:<\/b> The meaning of “tragicomic,” Nabokov, Charles Addams, on how the funeral home component of Fun Home<\/i> has been overlooked, on hitting a wall with words<\/a>, the advantages of “visual writing,” Michael Lesy’s Time Frames: The Meaning of Family Pictures<\/i>, Fun Home<\/i> as a mystery, using maps and annotations in panels to create structure and ambiguity, the presentation of Bechdel’s father, Dykes to Watch Out For<\/i>, on selling Fun Home<\/i> to Houghton Mifflin, the influence of graphic novels, Maus<\/i>, Harvey Pekar, uncouth forms of madeleine tea, ancient computer modems, rotoscoping, Ralph Bakshi, cross-hatching, analog vs. digital illustration, typesetting, Proust, Camus, the use of ten-cent words in comics, on posing in photographs for visual reference, Six Feet Under<\/i>, Jill Soloway’s Los Angeles Times<\/i> review, and literary respectability for comics.<\/p>\n

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Author: Alison Bechdel Condition of Mr. Segundo: Revealing his political idiosyncracies. Subjects Discussed: The meaning of “tragicomic,” Nabokov, Charles Addams, on how the funeral home component of Fun Home has been overlooked, on hitting a wall with words, the advantages of “visual writing,” Michael Lesy’s Time Frames: The Meaning of Family Pictures, Fun Home as […]<\/p>\n