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Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic
Alison Bechdel

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Kirsten, August 17, 2006

Alison Bechdel is best known for her long-running Dykes to Watch Out For strip, which has been a fixture in the LGBT press for more than fifteen years. Now she turns her talents to the more explicitly autobiographical with this book, which tells the story of her father and her childhood. Bechdel's father was an agonizingly careful man who dressed with care and spent every moment of his leisure time restoring the family's Victorian-era home. At the same time as he was assembling such a careful front, he was leading a hidden life, parrallel and yet divergent from Bechdel's own. Bechdel's voice in this memoir is sad yet wry, and the book is funny and poignant by turns, and her clean, careful artwork melds seamlessly with the story. At times this book can feel somewhat reserved in comparison to other, more exuberantly drawn and told comic memoirs, but it suits the subject matter to a T.

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