How Horrid" has a slightly facetious tone that strikes me as Wildean. It appears to embrace the actual horror--puberty, public disgrace--then at the last second nimbly sidesteps it, laughing.

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Alison Bechdel (pron. : /ˈbɛkdəl/ BEK-dəl; born September 10 1960) is an American cartoonist.