Alison Bechdel

in those period rooms.” (Bechdel 17) These words of Alison Bechdel perfectly describe her family. Bechdel may not be widely recognized, however she did introduce the uniqueness of her book to the world as a tragicomic. As the writer and artist of this tragicomic, she only shows what she wants the readers to see. The work is a black and white representation of her coming to a realization of her own homosexuality and a complex relationship with her father. However, Bechdel offers a graphic…

any money. For Mr. Bechdel, one of the main focuses of our novel Fun Home, restoring his family’s eighteen sixty-seven gothic revival mini mansion was more than just a hobby. Through the course of our novel we see Mr. Bechdel turn the common pass time of restoration into an over extenuating obsession that consumes his whole life, Mr. Bechdel beings to view the idea of his perfect home as a synonym for a perfect family and life. As our novel progress we continually see Mr. Bechdel sacrifice his…

Alison Bechdel was born in September 10, 1960 in Beech Creek, Pennsylvania. She grew up with two younger brothers and her parents Bruce and Helen Bechdel. Both of her parents were high school teachers and ran a funeral home together that was owned by her grandfather. Alison Bechdel grew up in a very large house that her father spent most of his time working in, and when he wasn’t working on it he was reading. Alison’s influences are definitely her father and her family. Her father was very…

Welcome Home - Radical Face This song fits nicely with the part of the book when Bechdel comes back for her father’s funeral. She comes home to old memories of working with her dad and playing with her brothers. She also revisits old relationships with her relatives that have been completely or slightly severed. In ‘Welcome Home’, the singer also addresses the topic of old relationships, ‘Ships are launching from my…

Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic by Alison Bechdel is an autobiographical graphic memoir that correlates her coming of age with her discovery of her homosexuality. Bechdel is also battling her inner fears that came along with her upraising but is baffled by the unearthing of her father’s own homosexuality. Her artistic decisions are affected by her homosexuality because she chooses to add stereotypical gender roles. Alison Bechdel’s Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic develops a proper story line by…

INTRO: Hook: Alison Bechdel may not be widely recognized… introduce the uniqueness.. Thesis: 1: Argue for or against effectiveness of this book: regarding purpose. The work is a black and white representation of her coming to a realization of her own homosexuality and a complex relationship with her father. However, Bechdel offers a graphic narrative… 2: presentation Comic can be used as an adjective which has the meaning of “funny,” or as pertaining to comedians, which can cause confusion and…

More Than A House What if a house was more than a home? What if it was treated more importantly than the people in it? Alison Bechdel, an American cartoonist, explores this idea in her autobiographical “tragicomic”, Fun Home. Born in the 1960’s, Bechdel was raised in a time where coming out was much harder than it is now. Coming out as gay had the potential detrimental to one’s career, relationships, and all-around life. She writes her memoir about her life, her experience of finding…

Fun Home: A Literary Comparison Fun Home, by Alison Bechdel is formed by her contradictions and paradox between outward appearance and there meaning. The nature of Fun Home is written as a literary piece rather than an autobiography in which Bechdel recounts her life though other works of literature. Bechdel is able to compare her life to other works of writing by using allusions and symbolisms. Rather than describing her book as an autobiography, Bechdel considers her book a piece of…

torn between embracing their sexual orientation with pride or being too ashamed to come out to the world. Coming out means making it public and acknowledging that one is gay, lesbian or a bisexual. For example, in the memoir, Fun Home, narrator Alison Bechdel portrays the effects of suffocating societal conceptions of sexuality on an individual, particularly in the parallel conflict between her own sexual awakening and her father’s lack thereof.…

comics’ many synesthetic icons is the ever-present, ever-popular word balloon” (McCloud,). Comics won’t be understandable without word bubbles. They are half of what tells the story to the readers. In the comic Are You My Mother?, the main character, Alison, and her mother were having a conversation over the phone. The shapes of their word bubbles were different. Alison’s word bubble looked like a typical word bubble, very round like, but her mother’s word bubble was…