Beyond Beautiful

Did everybody see this rave about Alison Bechdel's Essential Dykes to Watch Out For in today's New York Times? I mean, the last paragraph alone:

Ms. Bechdel began her strips all those years ago, she writes here, partly to provide “an antidote” to the culture’s image of gay women as “warped, sick, humorless and undesirable.” Boy, has she succeeded. Her crazy lesbians seem saner than the rest of us, and beyond beautiful.

As I just wrote in a comment in her blog, this kind of attentive, accurate praise for her work, hard earned for decades, so long in coming, makes my head explode.