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Graphic Women: Comics, Autobiography, and Mapping Memory Newhouse Center for the Humanities
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Cartoonists Lynda Barry and Alison Bechdel have created two of the most significant autobiographies of the 21st-century. In April 2011, Wellesley's Newhouse Center for the Humanities presented readings from Bechdel, author of the syndicated comic Dykes to Watch Out For and the groundbreaking graphic autobiography Fun Home, and Barry, author of the weekly Ernie Pook's Comeek as well as the award-winning graphic novel What It Is. The event focused on how these two acclaimed artists have represented aspects of their lives in graphic autobiographies that have changed the field of contemporary narrative. Hillary Chute, assistant professor of English at the University of Chicago and author of Graphic Women: Life Narrative and Contemporary Comics, moderated a discussion following the reading.
Cartoonists Lynda Barry and Alison Bechdel have created two of the most significant autobiographies of the 21st-century. In April 2011, Wellesley's Newhouse Center for the Humanities presented readings from Bechdel, author of the syndicated comic Dykes to Watch Out For and the groundbreaking graphic autobiography Fun Home, and Barry, author of the weekly Ernie Pook's Comeek as well as the award-winning graphic novel What It Is. The event focused on how these two acclaimed artists have represented aspects of their lives in graphic autobiographies that have changed the field of contemporary narrative. Hillary Chute, assistant professor of English at the University of Chicago and author of Graphic Women: Life Narrative and Contemporary Comics, moderated a discussion following the reading.
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