COMIC ARTIST

Alison Bechdel

1960 - Today

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Alison Bechdel ( BEK-dəl; born September 10, 1960) is an American cartoonist. Originally known for the long-running comic strip Dykes to Watch Out For, she came to critical and commercial success in 2006 with her graphic memoir Fun Home, which was subsequently adapted as a musical that won a Tony Award for Best Musical in 2015. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Alison Bechdel has received more than 1,508,555 page views. Her biography is available in 29 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 25 in 2019). Alison Bechdel is the 168th most popular comic artist (down from 165th in 2019), the 10,831st most popular biography from United States (up from 10,875th in 2019) and the 40th most popular American Comic Artist.

Memorability Metrics

  • 1.5M

    Page Views (PV)

  • 42.57

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 29

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 2.42

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 4.17

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Page views of Alison Bechdels by language

Over the past year Alison Bechdel has had the most page views in the with 181,542 views, followed by French (10,383), and Spanish (8,667). In terms of yearly growth of page views the top 3 wikpedia editions are Basque (373.12%), Simple English (63.39%), and Egyptian Arabic (33.64%)

Among COMIC ARTISTS

Among comic artists, Alison Bechdel ranks 168 out of 226. Before her are Moyoco Anno, David Beauchard, Len Wein, Jim Starlin, Oh! great, and Marv Wolfman. After her are Hiroyuki Takei, John Byrne, Harvey Pekar, Bill Watterson, Scott Adams, and Kōsuke Fujishima.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1960, Alison Bechdel ranks 461. Before her are Kathy Griffin, Yasser Seirawan, Elena Kagan, Tomas Jonsson, Paul Harrington, and Paulina García. After her are Jozef Pribilinec, Esfandiar Rahim Mashaei, David L. Rabinowitz, Al Joyner, Tyrell Biggs, and Steven Lindsey.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Alison Bechdel ranks 10,831 out of 20,380. Before her are Marisol Nichols (1973), Earl Eby (1894), Chino Moreno (1973), Norman Thagard (1943), Lowell George (1945), and John Russell Pope (1874). After her are Benjamin N. Cardozo (1870), Robert Herman (1914), Eleanor Hallowell Abbott (1872), Jack Holt (1888), Jasika Nicole (1980), and Glen Powell (1988).

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Among COMIC ARTISTS In United States

Among comic artists born in United States, Alison Bechdel ranks 40. Before her are Mort Walker (1923), Neal Adams (1941), Harvey Kurtzman (1924), Len Wein (1948), Jim Starlin (1949), and Marv Wolfman (1946). After her are Harvey Pekar (1939), Bill Watterson (1958), Scott Adams (1957), Peter Laird (1954), Robert Kirkman (1978), and Scott McCloud (1960).

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