5/29/2023 0 Comments Fun home authorIt’s also just that it takes me a long time to figure out what I’m doing,” she says. “It’s partly because they’re graphic novels and I have to draw them. “My books take me a long time,” she says, noting that her previous memoirs, “Fun Home” and “Are You My Mother?” were six- or seven-year projects. The cartoonist, author and 2014 MacArthur Fellowship winner says her love of physical activity drives this latest graphic memoir, “The Secret to Superhuman Strength,” which is out from HMH Books on May 4.īechdel estimates that it took about eight years to complete the new book. “but, somehow, in April, it just seems like a bit of an insult.” “I ran in the snow all winter,” says Bechdel by phone. A storm had deposited several inches of snow outside her home in northern Vermont. Alison Bechdel was planning to go for a run following this interview, but now she wasn’t so sure that was going to happen.
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