Cartoonists Profiled Coast to Coast

"The chrysanthemum-print wallpaper custom made from a William Morris pattern and selected by a design historian who guided her father's restoration still hangs in the living room. The foyer remains the baroque red of a place where sex is an entrepreneurial pursuit. The floral wallpaper in the master bathroom remains the same, as does the enormous glass-fronted cabinet in the library.

"Other flourishes are long gone, like the heavy draperies that Ms. Bechdel's old photos show hanging from tall windows in tenebrous colors, and the furniture arrayed in serpentine rhythms." -- The New York Times profiles Fun Home and follows Alison Bechdel home.

"Then there's the diarrhea. In 'Occupied,' done by Tatsumi when he was 35 -- about the same age Tomine is now -- a struggling children's comic-book artist (of course) gets fired from his job and plummets headlong into midlife crisis. But while on the toilet, he finds unexpected inspiration in perverted graffiti scrawled on the bathroom wall. 'I had to draw! I had to draw!' the guy says. 'I was overcome with the desire to draw.' That, Tatsumi and Tomine agree, is what cartooning is like."-- LA Weekly digs into the Adrian Tomine and Yoshihiro Tatsumi relationship.
 
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