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Alison Bechdel: “It’s me who looks like my character”

With the amazing graphic novel “The Secret of Superhuman Strength”, the feminist author of “Fun Home” tells how physical exercise allowed her to overcome anxiety and neuroses. It was in 1983 that the American designer Alison Bechdel began, in the New York feminist magazine WomaNews, his series Dykes to Watch Out For (Lesbians to watch, … Read more

Addicted to sports, Alison Bechdel puts her body to the test to find inner peace

by Steven Felton

THE BD BOX – With The Secret of Superhuman Strength, the American designer delivers a fascinating autobiography articulated around physical exercise and the mental state that results from it. A work of enthusiastic introspection which summons as much Eastern philosophies as Jack Kerouac. As a child, Alison Bechdel was passionate about bodybuilders and quite naturally … Read more