Annual Starting from Paumanok Lecture featuring Alison Bechdel, author of Fun Home and Dykes to Watch Out For

Alison Bechdel, internationally-acclaimed lesbian cartoonist, will be delivering the annual Starting from Paumanok Lecture at Long Island University’s Brooklyn Campus in the Kumble Theater.  

For twenty-five years Bechdel wrote and drew the comic strip Dykes to Watch Out For, a chronicle considered “one of the preeminent oeuvres in the comics genre, period” (Ms.).  She is also the author of the best-selling graphic memoir Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic, which won an Eisner Award and was a National Book Critics Circle Award Finalist.  Time Magazine named Fun Home the number one Best Book of 2006, declaring, "The unlikeliest literary success of 2006 is a stunning memoir about a girl growing up in a small town with her cryptic, perfectionist dad and slowly realizing that a) she is gay and b) he is too. Oh, and it's a comic book.

Bechdel's breathtakingly smart commentary duets with eloquent line drawings. Forget genre and sexual orientation: this is a masterpiece about two people who live in the same house but different worlds, and their mysterious debts to each other."  

The Paumanok Lecture, which is co-sponsored by Long Island University MFA Program and Greenlight Bookstore, is free and open to the public.  Books will be for sale after the presentation.