The production, directed by Sam Gold, was called 'the first mainstream musical about a young lesbian.' As a musical theatre piece, Fun Home was a finalist for the 2014 Pulitzer Prize for Drama, while winning the Lucille Lortel Award for Outstanding Musical, the New York Drama Critics' Circle Award for Best Musical, and the Obie Award for Musical Theater. In 2013, a musical adaptation of Fun Home at The Public Theater enjoyed multiple extensions to its run, with book and lyrics written by Obie Award-winning playwright Lisa Kron, and score composed by Tony Award-nominated Jeanine Tesori. Fun Home also generated controversy, being challenged and removed from libraries due to its contents. A French translation of Fun Home was serialized in the newspaper Libération the book was an official selection of the Angoulême International Comics Festival and has been the subject of an academic conference in France. 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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