These Boomer Radicals in Vermont Just Want to Be ‘Good Progressives’

These Boomer Radicals in Vermont Just Want to Be ‘Good Progressives’

SPENT: A Comic Novel, by Alison Bechdel Alison Bechdel, the protagonist of “Spent,” is a sellout. She is not exactly the same person as Alison Bechdel, the author of “Spent,” whose previous books include the graphic memoir “Fun Home,” an adroit reflection on her relationship with her mortician father. But there are similarities. The fictional Alison also wrote a memoir about her secretive father who embalms dead bodies, but hers is called “Death…

What Is Alison Bechdel’s Secret?

The cartoonist has spent a lifetime worrying. In a new graphic novel, she finds something like solace.

Book review of Spent by Alison Bechdel

In her latest wonderful graphic novel, Spent, Alison Bechdel captures what it means to be flawed yet striving to live by your values, while navigating the joys and absurdities of life.