Alison Bechdel Fun Home

A family tragicomic is a graphic memoir by alison bechdel it focuses specifically on her parents helen and bruce and their role in her life bechdel builds the narrative around the tragic event of her father s death.

Alison bechdel fun home. Fun home is a graphic memoir in which alison bechdel describes her childhood and early adulthood. Alison bechdel s comic form autobiography fun home. This was the first adult graphic novel i ve read.

The book s first full drawing on the title page of chapter one is in fact a recreation of an old photograph of the enigmatic man. A family tragicomic begins and ends with strong textual and visual images of her father. Fun home is alison bechdel s graphic memoir of her life growing up.

As she grows up alison feels a constant. Young alison bechdel lives in pennsylvania with helen bruce and her little brothers christian and john bruce and helen had been living in europe but the death of. More specifically fun home is the story of alison s coming of age while grappling with her lesbian gender identity and the way that identity differs from the expectations imposed on her by society.

A family tragicomic is a 2006 graphic memoir by the american cartoonist alison bechdel author of the comic strip dykes to watch out for it chronicles the author s childhood and youth in rural pennsylvania united states focusing on her complex relationship with her father the book addresses themes of sexual orientation gender roles suicide emotional abuse dysfunctional family. A family tragicomic is a graphic memoir by alison bechdel tracing her journey from young girl to young adult as she comes to grips with her own lesbian sexuality her father bruce s most likely suicide and his secret homosexuality or bisexuality that he kept hidden throughout his life while having affairs with underage boys. It s the story of her growing up her coming of age.