Alison Bechdel: 'The Bechdel test was a joke... I didn't intend for it to become a real gauge'

The US graphic novelist on having her landmark comic strip, Dykes to Watch Out For, turned into an audio series, ​growing up in a funeral home, ​and ​​her famous women-in-film test Cartoonist Alison Bechdel, 62, is the author of three graphic memoirs, including Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic, but she's most widely known for cinema's Bechdel test. To pass, a film has to feature at least two women - preferably named characters - talking to each other about something other than a man. The te...