These intellectual underpinnings contribute to a stimulating mental and emotional workout that will keep readers on their toes, too.īechdel returns to the larger format of her collected comic strips, “The Essential Dykes to Watch Out For,” to create her first book in full color. In the process, she channels her challenges into art.Īs in the previous memoirs, Bechdel seeks further illumination in the lives and work of literary touchstones – including William Wordsworth, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Jack Kerouac, Adrienne Rich, Ralph Waldo Emerson, and Margaret Fuller. This latest memoir is a testimony to her determination to transcend her anxieties and find her way in life by dint of physical exertion and spiritual epiphanies. In panels busy with expressive drawings, text, and commentary, Bechdel excavates her deepest thoughts and feelings. Bechdel, neither a cheerleader nor a boot-camp sergeant, is never shallow. Cartoonist Alison Bechdel, who wrote about her parents in two celebrated graphic memoirs – “Fun Home” and “Are You My Mother?” – turns the focus on herself and her lifelong obsession with exercise in the ironically titled “The Secret to Superhuman Strength.” Just don’t mistake it for a self-help book filled with platitudes and exhortations.
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