Wed Jun 04 2025

<p>Nearly 20 years after her breakout memoir, <em>Fun Home</em>, cartoonist Alison Bechdel is still unearthing new truths about her life in that time. The memoir and its Broadway adaptation changed Alison’s life and brought a degree of success she was unaccustomed to. She explores these themes in her latest work, a comic novel called <em>Spent</em>. It’s about a cartoonist's complicated relationship with money and capitalism, and the struggle to stay true to her values. Alison tells Mattea about creating a fictionalized version of herself ... and shares surprising revelations about her parents, which have given her new insight into her own life story.</p><p><br></p><p>If you enjoyed this conversation, check out these episodes:</p><ul><li><a href="https://link.mgln.ai/CsG11f " rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Adrian Tomine: Answering his readers' burning questions</a></li><li><a href="https://link.mgln.ai/9b2Tzr " rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Rumaan Alam: How w...