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The Bechdel Test

Alison Bechdel’s original 1985 Dykes To Watch Out For strip that became known as “The Bechdel Test.”

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A comic I made for Westpride last spring. 

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Coming of age

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New Born Baby

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Small victories

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My brain/space is much less organized (and cat-filled) than hers. I wish I had her archives to work with. 

From our Creative Life Collection, Judith Thurman’s 2012 Profile of the cartoonist Alison Bechdel:

“Bechdel doesn’t outline her stories, which jump back and forth in time, so much as map them, using the cards as placeholders for her scenes. Her untidy blueprint reminded me of yet another kind of house: a memory palace.”

Credit: Alison Bechdel

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Predicting the future

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On first glance, Milena Velis’s carved pumpkin seems out of place.

A thick, padlocked chain marks an X in front of a fence. In the distance, the moon rises above a school building framed by bare, gangly trees.

It’s an image in stark contrast to the werewolf, skeletons, pumpkin heads, and haunted forest that comprised the entries in West Philly Local’s 2013 Pumpkin Carving Contest. But while Velis’s pumpkin may not show a spooky motif synonymous with Halloween, it could be considered the most frightening of them all.

After all, what’s more terrifying than the School District of Philadelphia shuttering 24 schools—including local University City High School and Alexander Wilson Elementary—and laying off nearly 3,000 staff members in the face of steep budget cuts and choked funding?

…Read more of my West Philly Local profile on Velis here

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Students of Central High School in Philadelphia protest the visit of Governor Tom Corbett to their school on Jan. 17.

Photo by Samantha Madera/Al Dia News.

For more information, photos and video, visit our website:

http://www.pontealdia.com/primer-plano/corbett-does-not-go-to-central.html

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this.

Inventor of infographics, Fritz Kahn

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creeps!

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witchy!

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Again the pretty vixen (by Tambako the Jaguar)

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Nothing But The Blur of Travelling Time Jack Hardwicke