The Bat Segundo show talks to the toast of the GN world on her astonishing success with FUN HOME:
The meaning of âtragicomic,â? Nabokov, Charles Addams, on how the funeral home component of Fun Home has been overlooked, on hitting a wall with words, the advantages of âvisual writing,â? Michael Lesyâs Time Frames: The Meaning of Family Pictures, Fun Home as a mystery, using maps and annotations in panels to create structure and ambiguity, the presentation of Bechdelâs father, Dykes to Watch Out For, on selling Fun Home to Houghton Mifflin, the influence of graphic novels, Maus, Harvey Pekar, uncouth forms of madeleine tea, ancient computer modems, rotoscoping, Ralph Bakshi, cross-hatching, analog vs. digital illustration, typesetting, Proust, Camus, the use of ten-cent words in comics, on posing in photographs for visual reference, Six Feet Under, Jill Solowayâs Los Angeles Times review, and literary respectability for comics.
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Alison Bechdel is the bees knees. I’m so glad she’s finally getting the recognition that’s long overdue to her.