I, like many other rampant bibliophiles, am a reluctant reader of graphic books. Yet, a few pages into Alison Bechdel’s latest memoir, “Are You My Mother?” (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt ...

The book’s seven chapters begin with dreams, looming up out of black pages. These images of mirrors ... over cool blues and greys; in “Are You My Mother?” the tint is warmer: soft rose ...

The book gathered great critical praise. However as Bechdel reveals in "Are You My Mother," it came at great ... Bechdel weaves the story through her pictures in startling ways.

In its pages, Bechdel does the miraculous ... but because it plays a large part in Bechdel’s second book, “Are You My Mother?,” which turns the lens on her mother instead.