Welcome to Litsy!

A delightful work of autofiction! I read an interview with Bechdel where she said her original idea for this book was a straightforward memoir about her relationship with money but that she decided a graphic novel about her trying to write that book was more fun. Indeed! I love how she skewers and adores leftist communities and the inclusion of the cast of the Dykes to Watch Out comics. Also: Bisexual polyamory! Trans activist work! Goat farming!

Finished this “comic novel” on our way home from a Red‘s baseball game. It was fantastic! Hilarious! I mistakenly assumed this was a memoir/nonfiction. After figuring out its auto-fiction, I was able to just take in the hilarity of the goat sanctuary, middle-aged throuple, vegan podcasters, co-op, a MAGA sister, and so much more. Liberals will recognize themselves in these pages, I sure did. I‘d watch this tv show.
📸my monarch caterpillar babies

Alison Bechdel and Harry Bliss, both Vermont cartoonists, interview each other in our local independent newspaper.

https://www.sevendaysvt.com/arts-culture/cartoonist-interview-alison-bechdel-and...

Afternoon work break with a graphic novel.

"and she knows that whatever happens in those coming days, she will get by with a little help from her annoying, tenderhearted, and utterly luminous friends."
This is SO good!! It had me cracking up throughout. It is going to hit hard with the hippy liberal/progressive crowd that can laugh at themselves and their friends. I loved all the animals and all the relationships. I might have to go buy myself a copy to own and reread!

"Live
Laugh
Lesbian"

I snort laughed ?

This comic is amazing

This book is cracking me up 🤣

At the coffee shop where we gather to read. ❤️

Okay I'm currently reading five (!) other books right now, but I just can't help myself because my hold for the new Alison Bechdel book came!! I heard this one features her characters from her original comic strip Dykes to Watch Out For. (I finally signed up for a free trial at Audible so I could listen to the audiobook adaptation of DTWOF and revisit the characters). It is really incredible, but especially Roberta Colindrez as Lois. *swoon*

tg La Lentille D‘or is still in business

This was great! There‘s a lot going on - the pandemic, social media influencing, communal living, a MAGA sister, sometimes spicy polyamory, many goats, generational differences re: social justice work, kooky TV adaptations, critiques of capitalism, and plenty of hilarious hijinks. And of course Alison Bechdel makes it all work with her brilliant writing and drawing.