Fun Home Alison Bechdel

She was a 2014 recipient of the macarthur genius award.

Fun home alison bechdel. Bruce and helen had been living in europe but the death of bruce s father forced them to return stateside to take over the bechdels funeral home business. Distant and exacting bruce bechdel was an english teacher and director of the town funeral home which alison and her family referred to as the fun home. This was the first adult graphic novel i ve read.

She is also known for the bechdel test. And by adult i mean for grown ups not porn. Originally best known for the long running comic strip dykes to watch out for she came to critical and commercial success in 2006 with her graphic memoir fun home which was subsequently adapted as a musical that won a tony award for best musical in 2015.

A family tragicomic is a 2006 graphic memoir by the american cartoonist alison bechdel author of the comic strip dykes to watch out for. In 2012 she released her second graphic memoir are you my mother. Fun home is alison bechdel s graphic memoir of her life growing up.

Fun home is alison bechdel s graphic memoir of her life growing up. It chronicles the author s childhood and youth in rural pennsylvania united states focusing on her complex relationship with her father. This was the first adult graphic novel i ve read.

Fun home is what she and her brothers called the family owned funeral home her dad ran. It focuses specifically on her parents helen and bruce and their role in her life. And by adult i mean for grown ups not porn i was really surprised how drawn into it i was.

It was not until college that alison who had recently come out as a lesbian discovered that her father was also gay. A family tragicomic is a graphic memoir by alison bechdel. Fun home is what she and her brothers called the family owned funeral home her dad ran.