
Cartoons, Capitalism & Censorship: Alison Bechdel & Ann Telnaes on Politics in Art
From On with Kara Swisher
Published 8/25/2025

From On with Kara Swisher
Published 8/25/2025
How do artists hold the powerful to account? Graphic novelist Alison Bechdel and editorial cartoonist Ann Telnaes have been grappling with that question for decades, in their own very different ways. Bechdel is the creator of the seminal comic strip, “Dykes to Watch out For,” which she…