Alison Bechdel | Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic
Recorded Jun 22, 2006
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A cult favorite in the comics world, Alison Bechdel has chronicled the lives of fictionalized characters in her “Dykes to Watch Out For” comic strip since 1993. Called “one of the preeminent oeuvres of the comics genre, period” by Ms, “Dykes” is syndicated in fifty alternative newspapers and is collected into a book with a quarter million copies in print. Fun Home is her memoir, in graphic novel form, of life, marked by gothic twists and sexual angst, in the family-owned funeral home.
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