Bestselling cartoonist Alison Bechdel launches her newest graphic memoir, THE SECRET TO SUPERHUMAN STRENGTH, in this exclusive Canadian event presented by Librairie D+Q and The Beguiling on Thursday, May 13, 2021 at 8 PM EDT. Alison will guide the audience through a visual presentation, followed by an audience Q+A hosted by fellow cartoonist and friend Sophie Yanow (THE CONTRADICTIONS). Further details on Facebook…
This event is organized by independent booksellers Librairie Drawn & Quarterly and The Beguiling. Purchase the book from either store and you will be emailed access to the webinar, co-presented by TCAF, The Toronto Comic Arts Festival.
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THE SECRET TO SUPERHUMAN STRENGTH
From the author of Fun Home, a profoundly affecting graphic memoir of Alison Bechdel’s lifelong love affair with exercise, set against a hilarious chronicle of fitness fads in our times.
ALISON BECHDEL
Alison Bechdel’s cult following for her early comic strip Dykes to Watch Out For expanded wildly for her family memoirs, the best-selling graphic memoir Fun Home, adapted into a Tony Award-winning musical, and Are You My Mother? Bechdel has been named a MacArthur Fellow and Cartoonist Laureate of Vermont, among many other honors. The Secret to Superhuman Strength is her latest comic.
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