Alison Bechdel, cartoonist: 'How can you argue with people who don't use logic?'

Alison Bechdel is a groundbreaking cartoonist, graphic memoirist, and creator of the Bechdel Test, a measure of female representation in film. From her studio in Jericho, Vermont, Bechdel has created influential works including the graphic memoir Fun Home, which became a Tony Award-winning Broadway musical, and Are You My Mother?, exploring complex family relationships through illustrated narrative. These photographs by Kelly Burgess document Bechdel in her Vermont studio workspace, capturing the environment where she creates her meticulously detailed graphic narratives that have transformed contemporary comics and memoir.