Alison Bechdel’s New Comic About an Old Flame

The New Yorker’s summer fiction issue is all about love stories, and Alison Bechdel’s short graphic sketch about “a lovely affair with someone who was kind, beautiful, smart, interesting, sane and available” (“I broke it off after a few weeks. What the fuck was my problem?”) is plain and moody and wonderful and real. (Also great and available in full online: Margaret Talbot’s profile of fan-whisperer and Fault In Our Stars author John Green.) [TNY]