It was nominated for several awards, including the National Book Critics Circle Award and three Eisner Awards (winning the Eisner Award for Best Reality-Based Work). In The New York Times Sunday Book Review, Sean Wilsey called it 'a pioneering work, pushing two genres (comics and memoir) in multiple new directions.' Several publications named Fun Home as one of the best books of 2006 it was also included in several lists of the best books of the 2000s.

įun Home has been both a popular and critical success, and spent two weeks on the New York Times Best Seller list. Fun Home has been the subject of numerous academic publications in areas such as biography studies and cultural studies as part of a larger turn towards serious academic investment in the study of comics/ sequential art. Writing and illustrating Fun Home took seven years, in part because of Bechdel's laborious artistic process, which includes photographing herself in poses for each human figure. The book addresses themes of sexual orientation, gender roles, suicide, emotional abuse, dysfunctional family life, and the role of literature in understanding oneself and one's family.

It chronicles the author's childhood and youth in rural Pennsylvania, United States, focusing on her complex relationship with her father. Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic is a 2006 graphic memoir by the American cartoonist Alison Bechdel, author of the comic strip Dykes to Watch Out For.

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