Comica Festival & Laydeez Do Comics Present: Alison Bechdel

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The American cartoonist Alison Bechdel has gone from a much-loved lesbian chronicler in Dykes to Watch Out For to a celebrated graphic novelist. Laydeez Do Comics and Comica Festival are delighted to welcome Alison Bechdel for a very special evening. She will be talking about and reading from her compelling graphic memoirs published by Jonathan Cape: Fun Home, selected as ‘Book of the Year’ in 2006 by Time Magazine, and her latest, Are You My Mother?. In both, she explores her complex relationships with her parents with sensitivity and insight. There will also be a UK premiere screening of 'The Paper Mirror', Charissa King-O'Brien's compelling documentary about Alison Bechdel and the portrait painted of her by Riva Lehrer.