Spent - A Comic Novel

Alison Bechdel is the author of two internationally acclaimed graphic memoirs, Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic and Are You My Mother?: A Comic Drama. Fun Home was a New York Times bestseller, won an Eisner Award and was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award. It was named a Best Book of the 21st Century by the Guardian, was adapted to a broadway musical which won five Tony Awards and is currently being adapted for cinema. For twenty-five years, she wrote and drew the comic strip Dykes to Watch Out For , a visual chronicle of modern life - queer and otherwise - considered ''one of the preeminent oeuvres in the comics genre''. Alison Bechdel is guest editor of Best American Comics , 2011, and has drawn comics for Slate , McSweeney''s , Entertainment Weekly , Granta , and The New York Times Book Review . In 2014 she was named as one of the recipients of the MacArthur ''Genius'' Award. http://dykestowatchoutfor.com/

Product details

• Authors: Alison Bechdel, Bechdel Alison
• Publisher: JONATHAN CAPE
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 22.05.2025
• EAN: 9781787335394
• ISBN: 978-1-78733-539-4
• No. of pages: 255
• Dimensions: 155 mm x 234 mm x 29 mm
• Subjects: Fiction > Comic, cartoon, humour, satire > Comic; Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945), Fiction: special features, FICTION / Psychological, Graphic Novels, COMICS & GRAPHIC NOVELS / Literary, COMICS & GRAPHIC NOVELS / Humorous, Of specific Gay & Lesbian interest, Humour, Narrative theme: Interior life, Narrative theme: Social issues, Relating to LGBTQ+ people, Graphic Novels: Literary & Memoirs, FICTION / LGBTQ+ / General, Biographical fiction / autobiographical fiction, Graphic novel / Comic book / Manga: Society / culture, Graphic novel / Comic book / Manga: Humorous, COMICS & GRAPHIC NOVELS / LGBTQ+ / General, FICTION / Biographical & Autofiction