Perhaps the finest example of Bechdel’s self-abasing humility came when the author introduced her work to a lecture audience at Long Island University, humorously saying that it is not “a laugh riot” (Thurman, 2012, para. Disagreeing with reporter Rachel Cooke (2017), Bechdel opined that her work was not a turning point after which graphic novels grew in popularity and esteem (para. In interviews, the cartoonist has minimized the impact of Fun Home.
When she was awarded a 625 000-dollar MacArthur ‘genius’ grant for her innovative memoir, Bechdel humbly remarked that she “must be doing something worthwhile” (Flood, 2014, para. 51), by Alison Bechdel, 2006, Boston: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt.Īlison Bechdel, who wrote and illustrated Fun Home, is modest about the success her graphic novel has enjoyed. Depiction of Alison Bechdel’s father lying in repose. Alison Bechdel has described Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic as the tale of “how my closeted gay dad killed himself a few months after I came out to my parents as a lesbian” ( Thurman, 2012, para.
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