Looking for something fun as a family? I want pictures that you have to read, that you have to decode, that take time, that you can get lost in. Other manifestations of this controlling behavior are seen when he readies the family for a Historical Society visit; he organizes the children with the same obsessive but impersonal attention he brings to the placement of a Dresden figurine or a brass candelabra.The emotional power of moments like these is amplified by the quietly wrenching presence of Bruce's wife Helen, played with infinite layers of bruised feeling by the superb While the overall tone of the show is one of melancholy, there are also infectious explosions of joy such as "Come to the Fun Home," in which the kids goof off around an open casket, singing their made-up version of a TV commercial, brilliantly imagined by Tesori as a homage to the Jackson 5's "I Want You Back."
Book #4 for Jugs & Capes, my all-girl graphic-novel book club! Whereas most graphic novels are quick, fun reads, this is unlike anything I've read before because it’s so rich with meaning. Perhaps the most over-trafficked subject matter among contemporary American dramatists is the dysfunctional family. Please note: We sometimes link to third party sites, including YouTube, so children should not use HomeTime unsupervised. One of the best comics projects of all time. The story is autobiographical, extremely personal, and wonderfully honest.Alison Bechdel is an American cartoonist. "[Alison Bechdel] hits notes that resemble Jeanette Winterson at her best...She's made a story that's quiet [and] dignified."
Mega good.
The test is whether a work features at least two women talking to each other about something other than a man.
The intent is always to make print as compelling as the pictorials they are made to convey. This is like a literary fiction novel tucked into a graphic novel. Bechdel eloquently conveys her confusion around her sexuality as well as her complicated relationship with her father. Meticulously wrought, with attention to every single detail in every single panel, this memoir reveals itself fairly early on as a dual "coming out" story of Bechdel and her father. It’s by Alison Bechdel and I hadn’t initially realised I knew her name from the Bechdel test. There's also an inspired Partridge Family riff called "Raincoat of Love," which carries a sardonic sting, coming after the news that Bruce is seeing a court-ordered shrink. Otherwise what's the point?The memoir focuses on Bechdel's family, and is centered on her relationship with her father, Bruce.
It has won several award and was nominated for 2007 Eisner Awards.
It's a father-daughter tale perfectly suited to the graphic memoir form. It's not overly pretty. Whereas most graphic novels are quick, fun reads, this is unlike anything I've read before because it’s so rich with meaning.
Emotions? And while it can sometimes be a leaden dramatic device to have older characters observing their younger selves, watching Malone's 43-year-old Alison share the stage with her 19-year-old college freshman self (For gay audiences, female or male, the depiction of discovering and embracing one’s sexual identity here will be bittersweet, funny and moving.
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Minneapolis Star-Tribune"Graphic storytelling at its most profound." Kirkus Reviews, Starred“Alison Bechdel – she’s one of the best, one to watch out for." In the narrator's logic, her coming out of the closet prompted her father's suicide four months later. Bruce was a In the beginning of the book, the memoir exhibits Bruce's obsession with restoring the family's The story also deals with Alison's own struggle with her sexual identity, reaching a catharsis in the realization that she is a At several points in the book, Bechdel questions whether her decision to come out as a lesbian was one of the triggers for her father's suicide.Bechdel describes her journey of discovering her own sexuality: "My realization at nineteen that I was a lesbian came about in a manner consistent with my bookish upbringing. James Mustich's 1,000 Books to Read Before You Die is bound to seriously expand that list wit...In this graphic memoir, Alison Bechdel charts her fraught relationship with her late father.In this graphic memoir, Alison Bechdel charts her fraught relationship with her late father. To say when these events take place would be the spoiler, in this story more than the fact of those admiI just re-read Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic for my class on YA Graphic Novels with strong girl characters. In one knockout song performed by Lucas with aching tenderness, we share her eye-opening thrill as an "old-school butch" delivery woman enters a luncheonette and the girl is transfixed by her swagger, her bearing and her clothes, in an interior-monologue serenade that crests with, "And your keys.