Editing Alison Bechdel (section)

== Awards ==
* 2006 [[Time (magazine)|''Time'']] Magazine listed ''Fun Home'' as one of its 10 Best Books of the Year
* 2007 [[Eisner Award]] for Best Reality-Based Work<ref name=Kennedy>{{cite book|title=Drawn to purpose : American women illustrators and cartoonists|last=Kennedy|first=Martha H.|publisher=Library of Congress|others=Hayden, Carla Diane, 1952-|year=2018|isbn=978-1-4968-1592-7|location=Jackson, Mississippi|pages=182–183|oclc=993601764}}</ref>
* 2007 [[Stonewall Book Award]]s – Israel Fishman Non-Fiction Award<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.ala.org/Template.cfm?Section=bookmediaawards&template=/ContentManagement/ContentDisplay.cfm&ContentID=93109|title=ALA {{!}} Stonewall Book Awards|website=www.ala.org|access-date=March 8, 2016}}</ref>
* 2010 [[List of Lulu Award winners#Women Cartoonists Hall of Fame|Women Cartoonists Hall of Fame]] (presented by [[Friends of Lulu]])<ref>{{cite web | url = http://www.hahnlibrary.net/comics/awards/lulu.php | title =  Lulu Award | publisher = Comic Book Awards Almanac | archiveurl = https://web.archive.org/web/20130126234514/http://www.hahnlibrary.net/comics/awards/lulu.php | archivedate = January 26, 2013 | url-status = live}}</ref>
* 2012 [[Guggenheim Fellowship]]<ref name=Kennedy />
* 2012 [[Inkpot Award]]<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.comic-con.org/awards/inkpot|title=Inkpot Award|date=December 6, 2012|website=Comic-Con International: San Diego}}</ref>
* 2012 The [[Bill Whitehead Award]] for Lifetime Achievement from [[Publishing Triangle]]
* 2013 The International Forum for Psychoanalytic Education Distinguished Educator Award
* 2014 [[MacArthur Fellows Program#2014|MacArthur Fellowship]]<ref name="MacArthur" />
* 2014 [[Lambda Literary Foundation|Lambda]] Board of Trustees Award for Excellence in Literature<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.lambdaliterary.org/features/06/03/winners-of-the-26th-annual-lambda-literary-awards-announced/|title=Winners of the 26th Annual Lambda Literary Awards Announced|website=Lambda Literary|date=June 3, 2014|language=en-US|access-date=March 8, 2016}}</ref>
* 2015 The [[Austen Riggs Center#Erikson Institute|Erikson Institute Prize for Excellence in Mental Health Media]]<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.austenriggs.org/erikson-institute-prize-excellence-mental-health-media|title=Erikson Institute Prize for Excellence in Mental Health Media|website=Austen Riggs Center|access-date=April 4, 2018|archive-date=July 20, 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180720110231/https://www.austenriggs.org/erikson-institute-prize-excellence-mental-health-media|url-status=dead}}</ref>
* 2019 [[Harvey Awards]] Hall of Fame inductee. The award was presented to Bechdel by [[Chip Kidd]] during the Harvey Awards at [[New York Comic Con]].<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2019/09/25/arts/harvey-awards-comic-books.html|title=Harvey Awards Hall of Fame to Induct New Members|first=George Gene|last=Gustines|newspaper=The New York Times|date=September 25, 2019|access-date=November 27, 2019}}</ref>
* 2022 [[PEN Oakland awards|PEN Oakland – Josephine Miles Literary Award]] for ''The Secret to Superhuman Strength''.

For her outstanding contributions to the comic art form, in 2016 [[ComicsAlliance]] listed Bechdel as one of twelve women cartoonists deserving of lifetime achievement recognition.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://comicsalliance.com/women-lifetime-achievement-awards/|title=12 Women in Comics Who Deserve Lifetime Achievement Recognition|website=Comicsalliance.com|access-date=January 13, 2017|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160801110216/http://comicsalliance.com/women-lifetime-achievement-awards/|archive-date=August 1, 2016}}</ref>