When Alison Bechdel was a child, she witnessed precisely two displays of affection between her parents. “Once my father gave my mother a chaste peck before leaving on a weekend trip,” she writes. “And ...

Installation view, ‘Dykes, Dads, and Moms to Watch Out For: The Comics of Alison Bechdel’ at the UM Institute for the Humanities Gallery (all photos by Sarah Nesbitt, courtesy the UM Institute for the ...

Why is Christian Science in our name? Our name is about honesty. The Monitor is owned by The First Church of Christ, Scientist, and we’ve always been transparent about that. The church publishes the ...

Why did my life turn out the way that it did? What does it mean to see your parents through adult eyes? These questions are at the heart of "Fun Home," the Tony Award-winning musical coming to life on ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. What living composer is more versatile than Jeanine Tesori? Lyric Opera subscribers heard her beautiful score for the opera "Blue" ...

Alison Bechdel rose to fame as the creator of the long-running alt-weekly comic strip “Dykes to Watch Out For,” then jumped to an even wider audience by way of her celebrated graphic memoirs “Fun Home ...

As part of last weekend’s New Yorker Festival, co-sponsored by Mastercard, renowned lesbian cartoonist Alison Bechdel gave a talk Saturday, which was moderated by New Yorker writer Judith Thurman at ...

In “Spent,” the protagonist looks like Alison Bechdel and quacks (well, bleats) like Alison Bechdel but the subtitle “A Comic Novel” is a clue that she’s not Alison Bechdel. The writer/cartoonist has ...