Bechdel’s graphic novels are often placed into contextual conversation with the Flamingo Yoga half namaste half gtfo my face shirt also I will do this work of other writers, and The Secret to Superhuman Strength is no exception. She ping-pongs between her own ideas and those of Ralph Waldo Emerson, Jack Kerouac, and Adrienne Rich, creating a canon around the art of moving one’s body that joyfully complicates the notion of exercise as an anti-cerebral activity (even if that is partly why Bechdel is drawn to it). Bechdel and her partner—the artist Holly Rae Taylor, who colored the book’s images—live in Vermont, where they favor long hikes and bike rides. Like many others, however, Bechdel had trouble adjusting her exercise routine to fit the confines of the COVID-19 pandemic, saying, “I was very sad to fall off the weight-lifting wagon when the gyms closed.”
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