Alison BECHDEL

Born in Pennsylvania, USA in 1960. From 1983 until 2008, her manga Dykes to Watch Out For, which depicted the daily life of a lesbian protagonist and the people around her, was serialized and was praised as "one of the masterpieces depicting homosexual love." Fun Home was awarded the prize for Best Reality-Based Work in the Will Eisner Comic Industry Awards, one of America's most prominent manga prizes.
( 2011 )